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...GSK has agreed to buy Canadian biotech Bellus Health in a $2bn deal, its largest acquisition since the UK drugmaker spun off its consumer health division last year....
...Walgreens said the deal will be accretive to the company’s adjusted earnings starting next year. It raised its healthcare revenue goals for fiscal 2025 by a third....
...“We believe it will be accretive over time and removes a distraction for shareholders,” chief executive Vlad Tenev said on an earnings call on Wednesday....
...It boggles the mind to think of how they’re going to get a handle on all the businesses, get them growing and nurturing the core Franklin franchise back to health....
...“Horizon will drive growth in Amgen’s revenue and non-GAAP earnings per share, and is expected to be accretive from 2024.”...
...“We see it as value accretive,” said an HSBC executive involved in the discussions over the weekend. “It’s a positive thing for the commercial lending franchise. It’s a brilliant opportunity.”...
...J&J said the deal would bolster its near- and long-term sales growth and that it would be accretive to adjusted earnings from 2024....
...As for rising rates, he says, “There’s always accretive financing for great deals, but maybe not for good deals” anymore. But investors are antsy....
...This makes investments less accretive and in some cases dilutive . . . there are more questions than answers on office demand . . ....
...It anticipates it will be accretive to adjusted earnings per share from 2024....
...Hyve said it will prioritise minimal dilution to existing shareholders as well as the optionality to move quickly as earnings accretive acquisition opportunities arise....
...“This deal will put us at the front of pack in broad deployment of BTK inhibitors, and it will be accretive much faster if we control the drugs completely, as opposed to being in a partnership,” Mr Hudson...
...She applied to London Business School last year to “scale up” Urban Health Method, a nutritional therapy clinic in Harley Street, London’s private-healthcare quarter....
...The goal in the short to medium term was that consumer health should “grow faster than the market” and he believed it could be “accretive to the overall performance of Sanofi in the 2023-25 timeframe”....
...Stryker said the acquisition would dilute earnings in 2021 by about 10 per cent before becoming accretive in 2022....
...This subsidiary will be excluded from participating in government health programmes such as Medicaid by the US Department of Health and Human Services (HSS) but this will not apply to Indivior plc or its...
...Amgen said the drug would be immediately accretive to its adjusted earnings per share from the close of the deal. The company expects to maintain its investment grade credit rating....
...Grocery in rude health....
...Cheaper areas of quality can be found in sectors such as Health Care, Telecoms and even the Industrials sector. 3....
...In its press release, Prudential was quick to boast that the deal would be “accretive to earnings per share and return on equity in year one”....
...AstraZeneca Plc has made a preliminary approach to rival drugmaker Gilead Sciences Inc. about a potential merger, according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest health-care deal...
...Second, the industry needs to convince health authorities and governments that ships are safe to carry passengers....
...While the EU is encouraging travel, member states have jurisdiction over health, and some countries are introducing stricter measures such as quarantine for visitors to Spain or returning holiday-makers...
...Outsourcers have come under the spotlight this year, following the collapse of Carillion in January and more recent concerns about Interserve’s financial health and a competencies at Capita....
...In trying to repel the first of Boatman’s attacks, the group quoted a UK government spokesperson who said “we monitor the health of all of our strategic suppliers”....
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