Novartis shopping for merger, Amgen right fit...

[Anonymous]

Interesting...

 

[Anonymous]

Do they have 90 Billion, I doubt it.

 

[Anonymous]

Do they have 90 Billion, I doubt it.

Please Novartis net sales for 2012 was 58 billion. Very cash rich company!

 

[Anonymous]

Do they have 90 Billion, I doubt it.

It's called a leveraged-buyout and interest rates are cheap right now. Any of the Big 5 pharma could swallow Amgen whole.

 

[Anonymous]

They already speak German

 

[Anonymous]

in that case why does Amgen not buy one of the big pharmas? the more innovative healthier company should buy the weake ones, rather than the weaker dynosaur buy newer companies.

 

[Anonymous]

in that case why does Amgen not buy one of the big pharmas? the more innovative healthier company should buy the weake ones, rather than the weaker dynosaur buy newer companies.

Behaves it would be dilutive to earnings. Amgen already has one of the highest margins available. What Amgen needs is a Big Pharma global distribution network.

 

[Anonymous]

Behaves it would be dilutive to earnings. Amgen already has one of the highest margins available. What Amgen needs is a Big Pharma global distribution network.

Makes sense. novartis is laying off 50% of their sales force this week. Both companies trimming up. Complementary product lines. Pipelines. Many have already jumped from one to another. Interesting the similarity.

 

[Anonymous]

Makes sense. novartis is laying off 50% of their sales force this week. Both companies trimming up. Complementary product lines. Pipelines. Many have already jumped from one to another. Interesting the similarity.

Amgen could change their name to Pfizer or Novartis tomorrow. We have seen the enemy and we are us.

 

[Anonymous]

Amgen could change their name to Pfizer or Novartis tomorrow. We have seen the enemy and we are us.

I like, "we have seen the enemy, and they are we."

 

[Anonymous]

Interesting...

Where did you get this information from?

 

[Anonymous]

Behaves it would be dilutive to earnings. Amgen already has one of the highest margins available. What Amgen needs is a Big Pharma global distribution network.

In that case buying NVS would be perfect because NVS already has global presence and is a EU company. this would solve all the infrastructure problem.

 

[Anonymous]

Novartis has the worst sales force culture and tactics in the industry. Unethical and unprofessional. That merger not welcome.

 

[Anonymous]

Novartis has the worst sales force culture and tactics in the industry. Unethical and unprofessional. That merger not welcome.

LMAO ! Amgen is Mormon like sure !

 

[Anonymous]

it would be good for us. Nice cashout.

 

[Anonymous]

Novartis has the worst sales force culture and tactics in the industry. Unethical and unprofessional. That merger not welcome.

Then we would have to merge consent decrees. Are we really that different?

 

[Anonymous]

[QUOTE= the more innovative healthier company .......

Healthier maybe, more innovative definitely NOT

 

[Anonymous]

Big pharma reminds me of those monster movies where old shriveled monsters need to have young things brought to them (by the fee hungry investment banks) so the sclerotic and bureaucratic old pharmas can feed on the young blood. In other industries those who do not reinvnet themselves become extinct. Not so in pharma.

 

[Anonymous]

Big pharma reminds me of those monster movies where old shriveled monsters need to have young things brought to them (by the fee hungry investment banks) so the sclerotic and bureaucratic old pharmas can feed on the young blood. In other industries those who do not reinvnet themselves become extinct. Not so in pharma.

pack another bowel denver boy, the bearded man should be careful using the same colloquialisms in write as he does in person, makes identifying you too easy

 

[Anonymous]

pack another bowel denver boy, the bearded man should be careful using the same colloquialisms in write as he does in person, makes identifying you too easy

Whose packing bowels? What the hell do you sales guys do for fun on the road? Jesus!