The stock still has not recovered. What is going on? Humira still makes lots of money. So does Skyrizi and Rinvoq. So does Botox. Should we actually be worried. I alway believed this company was financially run very well. What is going on. Did they even screw this up?
In short yes, it’s very possible they partially failed to succeed independently of Abbott and without Humira. It was always going to be hard, but their R&D efforts weren’t good enough (hi Rova-T and many others).
One big issue is Rinvoq. Its black box makes ever hitting its “peak sales goals” unlikely. Even recently its peak was predicted above Skyrizi. It’s uncertain that their combined revenue will EVER match Humira. This means Humira revenue will not be replaced for a long time. That means shrinking profits. That means investors lose money. This is what’s going on with stock recently.
Also all the big companies have excellent immunology drugs and pipelines now. It’s a crowded space. This isn’t 2010.
Also Imbruvica now has many,
Many competitors and is falling fast. More than a few drugs are beating it head to head. Botox has generic competition AbbVie is trying to fight in court.
The Allergan neuro products have overperformed, but there is no pipeline. We do no research in psych or migraine. Nothing close to phase 3 except a low revenue Parkinson’s drug where they can’t figure out the pump.
Imagine what would have happened if the patent thicket hadn’t extended Humira IP for multiple years in US? I’m not sure Abbvie would still be around.
All of this is from public domain info of drug successes and failures over the past 10 years. I’m interested to see where it all goes.
The dividend won’t be touched though, so existing stock still has that value. Without it things would get UGLY in terms of share price.