Healthcare: Should You Stick With Gilead Sciences?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2018
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Gilead Sciences has been one of biopharma's worst performers, and demand for its hepatitis C drugs has yet to bottom. Can its R&D program jump start investor optimism? Stocks: GILD
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| 0:18.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:24.0 | Today is June 6th and this is the Wednesday Healthcare Edition of the show. |
| 0:28.0 | I'm your host Christine Harjus and I have Healthcare Specialist Todd Campbell on the line. |
| 0:32.0 | Welcome to the show Todd. and I have health care specialist Todd Campbell on the line. |
| 0:32.8 | Welcome to the show, Todd. |
| 0:34.9 | Hi, Christine. |
| 0:36.4 | It's going to be an interesting show today |
| 0:37.9 | for listeners because we're going to be talking |
| 0:39.8 | about probably one of the toughest things |
| 0:42.2 | for investors to do, which is sticking with stocks when they stumble right? |
| 0:46.6 | Absolutely yes so earlier today I had a great conversation with Jeff Fisher who is the lead advisor on Motley Fool Pro. |
| 0:54.9 | And we were talking about big biotech today. |
| 0:58.4 | In particular, he made this really good comparison to Big Pharma a couple decades ago where these stocks had been |
| 1:04.6 | darlings for so long until the patent cliff walloped them and newer treatments |
| 1:09.6 | came out and the stocks completely fell out of favor and now 20 years later it kind of looks like the market is getting the same |
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