Healthcare: Were Johnson & Johnson's Earnings Really That Bad?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 19 April 2017
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
After releasing its first quarter financials, J&J's stock fell over 3%. Is it a buy? In this episode, we dig into the quarter's highlights and low-lights to find out.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.0 | I'm your host Christine Harjus and today I'll be talking health care with my usual partner in crime, Todd. |
| 0:12.8 | Todd, how are you doing today? |
| 0:15.0 | I am doing well. |
| 0:16.8 | Christine, you sound like you might have a little bit of a cold. |
| 0:19.6 | I know. |
| 0:20.2 | I'm not really sure what this is. |
| 0:21.8 | It is full-blown allergy season here in DC, so I'm hoping it's allergies, but apologies to listeners because I know I don't sound great. |
| 0:29.0 | Well, hopefully you'll feel better soon. |
| 0:31.0 | Yeah, I hope so, fingers crossed. and also I apologize in advance if I end up |
| 0:35.0 | coughing or something during this episode. I'm going to try really hard not to. I've got my |
| 0:38.8 | water next to me and we'll see how it goes. Excellent, all right. |
| 0:44.0 | So today we are talking about just one topic, |
| 0:47.0 | which I feel like is kind of unusual for our healthcare show. |
| 0:50.0 | We usually like to pack a bunch of different things in, |
| 0:52.0 | but we are focusing on the largest |
| 0:54.6 | pharmaceutical company in the world, which is Johnson and Johnson. |
| 0:58.8 | This company is so big that it almost feels like when you're, although we're |
| 1:02.0 | covering one subject, we're really covering |
| 1:04.6 | like eight subjects, right? |
| 1:06.6 | I mean, if we really want to make ourselves sound impressive, we are covering the 250-plus |
| 1:11.9 | sub-companies in the Johnson and Johnson family of companies. |
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