Stock Watch: J&J’s Pharmaceuticals Division In The Shade Again

Muted Start To Fourth-Quarter Earnings Season

When facing the loss of exclusivity of your biggest product, bold deployments of capital are required to maintain sales growth, not stock buy-backs.

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ANDY SMITH OFFERS A LIFE SCIENCE INVESTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON BIOPHARMA BUSINESS

Most often, Johnson & Johnson opens life science earnings season and shares the limelight with other companies reporting in that first week. For fourth-quarter and full-year 2023, J&J had the stage to itself.

Just after Johnson & Johnson’s (J&J’s) fourth-quarter earnings announcement its shares dipped modestly into negative territory in premarket trading. Glancing...

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