BIIB
Me estaba leyendo el "Investor's Guide 2016" de Fortune (*). Dan 16 recomendaciones, entre ellas dos en el ámbito de las farmas: Merck y Biogen. Os copio abajo lo que dicen de Biogen, que me ha llevado a documentarme un poco sobre la misma y me hace considerarla una alternativa a mi inversión prevista en Amgen o Gilead. Más allá de la sobre-reacción (o no) por las limitadas ventas del medicamento para la esclerosis múltiple, me gusta su pipeline en el ámbito del Alzheimer, una enfermedad del primer mundo que lamentablemente cada vez afecta a más gente, y para la que Biogen parece tener buenos candidatos.
(*) Este tipo de análisis a priori, siempre me resultan interesantes... les haga o no caso luego (me fio lo justo de las recomendaciones)
Biogen's pipeline...
https://www.biogen.com/en_us/research-pipeline/biogen-pipeline.html
Artículo Fortune...
Between January and March 2015, investors, excited by an Alzheimer’s drug now in clinical trials, bid Biogen from $340 to $476 a share. Today it’s at $288, afflicted by slowing sales of its multiple-sclerosis drug Tecfidera. Biogen was concerned enough to announce an 11% workforce reduction, with some of the savings to be reinvested in Tecfidera marketing. Still, the market’s reaction seems overblown. Biogen now trades at 16 times projected 2016 earnings, well below its five-year average P/E of 25 and the global biotech average of 35. Analysts expect 12% earnings growth for 2016, but it’s the more distant future that gleams.
Biogen has three Alzheimer’s drugs in development; one, Aducanumab, has been shown in early trials to slow memory loss and remove the brain plaques that are a telltale sign of the disease. With 5 million Alzheimer’s patients in the U.S., says Cowen analyst Eric Schmidt, a hit drug could generate $20 billion in annual sales. He views Aducanumab as “one of the most exciting pipeline candidates in biotech.”