Stock Watch: Reading The Tea Leaves For Pharma Q1 Earnings
Diagnostics Companies’ Pre-Announcements Presage Pressures On Drug Revenues
Executive Summary
Contrasting first-quarter preannouncements from a DNA sequencing company and a molecular diagnostics company may, with other seasonal pressures, imply a comparatively weak first quarter for therapeutic drug companies.
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