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Investors are placing their bets on the next M&A deal in biotech. Where should you be looking?
As you may already know, Abbott Laboratories [ABT
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Also Johnson & Johnson [JNJ
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With major deals going down, investors are placing their bets on the next M&A deal in biotech. Where should you be looking?
For insights we turned to Bernstein senior biotech analyst Geoff Porges. There are a lot of companies that look interesting, he says. Companies such as these could easily get taken out.
Porges' Potential Takeover Targets
-Alexion [ALXN
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-Dendreon [DNDR
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-United Therapeutics [UTHR
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-Seattle Genetic [SGEN
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Biotech stocks have underperformed the market and the group should be well positioned going forward, he says.
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