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anonymous
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$3B is not a lot of money in terms of a buyout.
If we use $3B as the cost of entry to get an MF drug than KPTI would be purchased at $26 a share which would be equal a 1840% increase on our current share price. Considering that MorphoSYS was purchased for about a 120% premium it is highly unlikely anyone is shelling out $3B for KPTI, especially since M has a deeper pipeline and the MF space seems to be getting more crowded than it already is.
Novartis clearly thinks they are getting a winner...why else would they not have spent half of that $3B and picked KPTI off at $1.5B or about $13 a share. There is no way in the world our BOD would turn that down at this point, so my guess is acquiring companies are not all that enthralled with the prospect of our MF data.
Not trying to be a downer, I have worked most of my biopharma career in BD and these are the discussions that take place...there is a reason our share price is so low yet no one seems interested in taking us out at a bargain price...that is what should be keeping R up at night.
perhaps.......but why would new head of solid tumor VP leave BMS or take this particular gig if he didn't think the endo data was relevant and significant. Why waste time at a nearly defunct micro cap when his resume could have landed him in other places ?? Granted biotech is laying off right now and "a job" is a job, but why here, why now ???