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GlaxoSmithKline Short

Short
NYSE:GSK   GSK plc
Short from $42.01.

- Market Cap: $102B
- Beta: 0.83
- P/B: 20.42
- GSK’s consumer healthcare segment sales were down in 2017 due to a slowdown in global growth of its key consumer categories.
- They have also faced pricing pressure from competition and slow down in emerging markets. Although GSK have several candidates in different stages of development, the company has been set back on numerous occasions by the regulators. The largest setbacks in the past few quarters include the phase 3 data on chronic coronary heart disease, Duchenne muscular dystrophy candidate, kydrisa failing to meet the primary end point in a phase 3 study.
- The company phases massive competition from small start-ups to large pharmaceutical corporations. There consumer healthcare segment faces competition from big companies like Johnson & Johnson, Colgate Palmolive, Procter & Gamble and Pfizer.
- Advair, one of GSK’s largest revenue providers is facing intense competition in the asthma and COPD market from AstraZeneca and Merck respiratory drugs.

NeroTree Capital rates GlaxoSmithKline PLC as a SELL with a price target of $38.
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