2 Blue Chips Under Pressure
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🗓️ 24 January 2023
⏱️ 26 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You've got questions, we've got answers. Motley Full Money starts now. |
| 0:10.0 | I'm Chris Hill joining me today, Motley Full Senior Analyst, Osage Sharma. Thanks for |
| 0:17.2 | being here. |
| 0:18.5 | Chris, I appreciate you having me on. We've got a pair of blue chip stocks that are wrapping |
| 0:23.6 | up their fiscal years. We're going to start with Johnson and Johnson. Fourth quarter |
| 0:28.2 | profits fell 25% in part because demand for the company's COVID-19 vaccine fell. And |
| 0:35.8 | when you throw in the fact that inflation added to J&J's costs, you know, not a great |
| 0:43.2 | end of the fiscal year. And it leads into a very consequential year because later this |
| 0:49.5 | year, we're going to get the split. We're going to get the breakup of Johnson and Johnson. |
| 0:54.0 | But in terms of these results, was there anything in particular that stood out to you? |
| 0:59.2 | Chris, you know, to me, the story is how is Johnson and Johnson going to look going forward? |
| 1:07.7 | The impact of this year, in the way the fourth quarter ended, not great, but next year, |
| 1:13.8 | they're guiding to pretty decent results. I think the company is looking for some around |
| 1:19.0 | 5% sales growth in the next year. Now, where is this going to come from? You know, the pharmaceutical |
| 1:27.2 | segment has been doing pretty well, even when you take out those COVID results and the combination |
| 1:34.0 | of the pharmaceutical division, plus the med tech division. These will be what Johnson |
| 1:39.6 | Johnson is left with after it spins off its consumer health segment. Those actually grew |
| 1:46.3 | at an adjusted level, pretty nicely last year, the pharmaceutical segment grew at around |
| 1:53.1 | a 7% rate, and the med tech segment grew at a rate of around 6%. So I think what they are |
| 2:01.8 | doing will help them as they don't have to worry as much about the more volatile. And |
| 2:06.6 | I would say slower growth consumer segment, even though you've got some great brands |
| 2:10.9 | that will be nestled up in this segment, which by the way is going to be called KenView, |
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