Healthcare: Better Buy: AbbVie or Vertex Pharmaceuticals?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 7 February 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
These two biopharma heavyweights are taking it on the chin following a market-trouncing performance in 2017. Is one a better stock to buy than the other?
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| 0:17.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:24.0 | We're talking health care today, February 7th. |
| 0:26.3 | My name is Christine Hargis and I have Motley Fool Healthcare Contributor Todd Campbell joining me |
| 0:31.0 | on the phone. |
| 0:32.0 | What's new Todd? Christine, did you get a chance to... Todd Well, I gotta tell you, between the Patriots' loss and the stock market's craziness, the last couple days have been a little bit, a little bit challenging for me, but we will, we will preserve here yeah I I assume you were watching pretty |
| 0:56.1 | closely to the Super Bowl. Oh absolutely absolutely I know most of the most of the nation is |
| 1:01.1 | cheering at the Patriots lost. But you know hey you know credit |
| 1:06.3 | where credit is due that was a heck of the game and Fols wow he he was the |
| 1:11.8 | quarterback for the Eagles was just wonderful I couldn't believe how composed he was under pressure and they deserve the win. |
| 1:19.0 | Absolutely. |
| 1:20.0 | That is such a big thing of you to say. |
| 1:22.0 | Good for you. |
| 1:23.0 | For me. |
| 1:24.0 | It seems for you to say that, right? |
| 1:26.0 | But yeah, I'm sure that the Philadelphia Eagles fans are just absolutely on Cloud 9. |
| 1:33.3 | They deserve to have that win. |
| 1:35.5 | And, you know, hey, the Patriots remain still a great franchise. |
| 1:40.6 | And we'll be back again soon I promise much to the chagrin of many and you know the |
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