Analysis: Berkshire's bet a bright spot in gloomy year for Big Pharma stocks

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Berkshire Hathaway's new bet on the U.S. pharmaceutical industry signals hope for shares of large drug companies, which have lagged a broad market rally amid concern about efforts to rein in prescription drug prices $BRK

Shares of the two biggest pure-play pharma companies by market value, Merck and Pfizer, have fallen 10% and 3%, respectively, this year.

Investors say pharma stocks have also lagged because many top-selling products are slated to lose patent protection in the coming years, including Abbvie’s blockbuster Humira. Another factor hurting pharma’s performance, said Jared Holz, healthcare equity strategist at Jefferies, is that the stock market currently is dominated on a given day by either a trade favoring big tech, stay-at-home stocks, or a trade favoring economically cyclical stocks.

 

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Well yah. Biden is sold to big pharma donors. Times are good. For 1% of Americans.

Really people, with millions of lives at risk, isn't it possible to just for ONCE think beyond your 'market shares' and step away from your legalized gambling addiction? These vaccines must be free and available to everyone -- not profit vehicles for personal avaricious gain.

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