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Healthcare Industry News 24 September 2025 - 5 November 2025

Pfizer Stock Plunge and Promise: Vaccine Slump, Weight-Loss War, and a $10B Gamble – Is PFE Poised for a Comeback?

Pfizer Stock Plunge and Promise: Vaccine Slump, Weight-Loss War, and a $10B Gamble – Is PFE Poised for a Comeback?

Company Overview & Stock Snapshot Pfizer Inc. is one of the world’s largest pharmaceutical companies, known for household-name drugs and vaccines. Headquartered in New York, Pfizer manufactures treatments across vaccines, oncology, immunology, cardiology, and more. The company gained global prominence for its COVID-19 vaccine (Comirnaty) and antiviral pill (Paxlovid). However, with the pandemic’s tide receding, Pfizer’s stock (PFE) has faced significant challenges in 2023–2025. Shares that once traded above $50 during the vaccine rollout now hover in the mid-$20s reuters.com. At around $24–$25 per share, Pfizer’s market cap is about $138 billion stockanalysis.com – substantially smaller than several years ago
5 November 2025
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Billion-Dollar Brawl: Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Clash in High-Stakes Obesity Drug Takeover

Novo Nordisk’s Weight-Loss Drug Boom Hits a Wall – Wegovy Slowdown Sparks Stock Slump and Forecast Cut

Once Sky-High Valuation Falters Amid Weight-Loss Drug Headwinds Just a year ago, Novo Nordisk – buoyed by the meteoric success of its weight-loss injection Wegovy – briefly eclipsed all other European companies in market value reuters.com. The Danish pharmaceutical giant enjoyed surging sales as Wegovy and its type-2 diabetes sibling Ozempic (both containing the GLP-1 agonist semaglutide) became global sensations, with millions seeking their dramatic weight-loss benefits. However, 2025 has seen a sharp reversal of fortune. A “slew of headwinds has shaken investor confidence” in Novo Nordisk’s once-dominant growth story stockanalysis.com. The company’s share price has plummeted nearly 50% year-to-date
5 November 2025
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Billion-Dollar Brawl: Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Clash in High-Stakes Obesity Drug Takeover

Billion-Dollar Brawl: Novo Nordisk and Pfizer Clash in High-Stakes Obesity Drug Takeover

Background: Novo vs. Pfizer in the Weight-Loss Drug Race The fight for Metsera is driven by fierce competition in GLP-1 obesity drugs. Novo Nordisk is the maker of Wegovy/Ozempic, and Eli Lilly’s drugs recently overtook Wegovy in US market share reuters.com. Novo’s new CEO Mike Doustdar and the company’s controlling foundation have pushed for bolder moves after days of sliding market performance reuters.com reuters.com. In late October, Novo – which had already agreed a separate $5 billion deal to buy diabetes biotech Akero – suddenly “launched a bid…valuing [Metsera] at some $9 billion and crashing Pfizer’s deal” reuters.com. This was weeks
4 November 2025
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AbbVie’s Bull Run: Why This $400B Pharma Giant’s Stock Is Just Getting Started

AbbVie’s Bull Run: Why This $400B Pharma Giant’s Stock Is Just Getting Started

Stock Performance & Technical Trends AbbVie’s stock has been a standout performer in 2025. Shares currently hover around $228–$229, up roughly 28–30% since January and near their highest levels on record ts2.tech reportify.cn. This vastly outperforms both the S&P 500 (up ~16% YTD) and the broader pharma industry (up mid-single-digits) timesunion.com reportify.cn – a testament to investors’ optimism in AbbVie’s post-Humira strategy. The stock’s 52-week range spans from a low of about $163.8 to the recent peak around $244.8 on October 1st ts2.tech. Several catalysts have fueled this rally. In mid-September, AbbVie announced a patent settlement securing no U.S. generics
31 October 2025
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Merck (MRK) Stock Could Skyrocket: Key Drug Approvals & Analyst Targets Unveiled

Merck (MRK) Stock Dips on Earnings Beat — Will Pipeline Boost Spur a Rally?

Merck’s stock price dipped on Oct 30, 2025 even as it delivered a strong third-quarter report. The company posted $17.28 B in Q3 sales and $2.58 adjusted EPS – above analyst forecasts marketscreener.com. Sales of Keytruda, its blockbuster cancer drug, grew about 10% (to $8.1 B) marketscreener.com, offsetting a drop in Gardasil vaccine revenue. Despite the beat, Merck narrowed its 2025 sales outlook (now $64.5–65.0 B) while slightly raising profit guidance marketscreener.com, a cautious stance that likely weighed on the share price. Pipeline and Drug Approvals Drive Hopes Beyond the quarterly numbers, recent product news is energizing Merck’s outlook. In September 2025 the
30 October 2025
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UnitedHealth Stock Rallies After Bold Strategy Overhaul – Is 2026 a Turning Point?

UnitedHealth Stock Rallies After Bold Strategy Overhaul – Is 2026 a Turning Point?

UnitedHealth’s recent earnings and strategic shifts have drawn close market attention. The company’s Q3 2025 results beat expectations, enabling a tighter outlook. Its revenue for Q3 rose 12% to $113.2 billion unitedhealthgroup.com, with adjusted profit of $2.92 per share. That exceeded estimates and allowed management to raise full-year profit guidance. On Oct. 28, UnitedHealth said it now sees 2025 net EPS of at least $16.25 (from $16.00 prior) reuters.com – above the roughly $16.20 analysts had forecast. As portfolio manager Daniel Barasa of Gabelli Funds noted, “the results, the EPS guidance increase, and management commentary were all highly encouraging,” potentially signaling
29 October 2025
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Regeneron Stock Rockets on Strong Q3, Dupixent Boom – Analysts See 27% Upside

Regeneron Stock Rockets on Strong Q3, Dupixent Boom – Analysts See 27% Upside

Key points: Regeneron (NASDAQ: REGN) shares recently traded around $580–$585 (closing at $585.31 on Oct 27) after a slight pullback earlier in the month investing.com. Over the past week REGN is up roughly 1–2%, recovering from a low in the high $570s investing.com. In its Oct. 28 earnings release, Regeneron reported Q3 2025 revenue of $3.75 billion (+1% y/y), led by a 27% jump in Dupixent (its eczema/asthma drug) to $4.86 billion stocktitan.net. The company also won FDA approval for Libtayo in a high-risk skin cancer indication (first-ever immunotherapy in that setting), and positive EU reviews for Libtayo and Dupixent stocktitan.net. Wall
28 October 2025
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Blackstone & TPG in $18B Hologic Takeover Shock – Women’s Health Stock Skyrockets

Blackstone & TPG in $18B Hologic Takeover Shock – Women’s Health Stock Skyrockets

Deal Details and Company Background Hologic (NYSE: HOLX) is a Marlborough, MA–based medical technology firm focused on women’s health. Its products include mammography and breast biopsy systems, cervical cancer tests, surgical equipment (notably after its acquisition of Gynesonics), and lab diagnostics including molecular tests for Covid-19 bostonglobe.com. The Blackstone/TPG consortium will buy all outstanding Hologic shares for $76 cash plus a $3 CVR (contingent on hitting revenue goals in 2026–27 for the breast health business) marketscreener.com. This values the deal at $79 per share maximum and around $18.3 billion total enterprise value marketscreener.com. The purchase price represents a roughly 46%
21 October 2025
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Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) Rides Obesity Drug Wave: Stock Steadies as Analysts Eye Big Upside

Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) Rides Obesity Drug Wave: Stock Steadies as Analysts Eye Big Upside

What to Know Before Markets Open on October 20, 2025 VKTX Stock Steadies After Volatile Stretch Viking’s stock has stabilized in recent sessions, trading in the mid-$30s after a roller-coaster few months. It ended Friday at $33.53 marketbeat.com, roughly flat on the week and not far from its intraday high of ~$36.80 on Thursday ir.vikingtherapeutics.com. This marks a dramatic recovery from mid-August, when VKTX plunged over 40% in one day following a crucial trial announcement ts2.tech. Back then, Viking had unveiled results from a Phase 2 study of its oral obesity pill that missed investor expectations, triggering a sharp selloff.
19 October 2025
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Bristol Myers Snaps Up Orbital Therapeutics in $1.5B Biotech Power Play

Bristol Myers Snaps Up Orbital Therapeutics in $1.5B Biotech Power Play

In-Depth Analysis BMS’s acquisition of Orbital Therapeutics marks a deliberate push into autoimmune disease treatment via advanced cell therapy. Orbital, founded in 2022 by leaders in RNA and immunology, has built a proprietary RNA platform combining circular and linear RNA engineering with sophisticated lipid nanoparticle (LNP) delivery news.bms.com fiercebiotech.com. Its lead program, OTX-201, is designed as an in vivo CAR‑T: instead of harvesting and engineering cells outside the body, Orbital will inject circular RNA encoding a CD19-directed CAR into the patient, so the patient’s own T cells become the “manufacturers” of CAR‑T cells in situ news.bms.com orbitaltx.com. This approach could
10 October 2025
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Novo Nordisk’s $5.2 Billion Bet to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease – Game-Changer or Big Gamble?

Novo Nordisk’s $5.2 Billion Bet to Reverse Fatty Liver Disease – Game-Changer or Big Gamble?

Forecast: Experts believe that within the next 2–3 years, we’ll know if Novo’s gamble pays off. Phase 3 readouts for efruxifermin are anticipated in 2026, and Novo hopes to launch the drug by late this decade if approved reuters.com. By then, the landscape may include other new NASH therapies (possibly Lilly’s or Madrigal’s), but Novo’s combination strategy could set it apart. Wolfe Research analyst Andy Chen recently said the field has reached a “meaningful tipping point” as the first therapies emerge, predicting the leading NASH drug could see $5 billion+ in annual sales under broad use investing.com. Novo’s own management clearly shares that optimism – they
9 October 2025
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Acadia Healthcare’s Wild 2025 Ride: Activist Investor Shake-Up, Stock Surge & Mental Health Market Frenzy

Acadia Healthcare’s Wild 2025 Ride: Activist Investor Shake-Up, Stock Surge & Mental Health Market Frenzy

Acadia Healthcare (ACHC) Stock and News Overview as of September 24, 2025 Stock Performance: Fall and Rebound in 2025 Acadia Healthcare’s stock has been on a rollercoaster. As of September 24, 2025, ACHC traded around the mid-$20s per share after a sudden spike in the wake of activist investor news reuters.com. This rally – nearly a 9% jump in one afternoon – offered relief to shareholders who had endured a prolonged slide. Before the late-September rebound, Acadia’s stock was down roughly 41% year-to-date in 2025 investing.com and hovering near multi-year lows. The stock’s swoon followed a series of setbacks (operational
24 September 2025
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