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RalphRalphon Aug 19, 2020 11:24pm
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RE:Acquistions out there ...
RE:Acquistions out there ...Momenta and Antibe are two totally different companies; their pipelines are vastly different. There are virtually no material similarities between the two. Momenta's acquisition valuation has no relevance to Antibe's potential valuation. Comparing the total overall markets that they are respectively pursuing is an extreme oversimplification.
MUGMODs wrote: As brought to my attention by EOJ123 on a different site, J&J strikes $6.5B deal for Momenta.
The deal gives J&J's Janssen unit access to Momenta's experimental therapy, nipocalimab, being tested for myasthenia gravis, a neuromuscular disease that causes weakness in muscles, and other diseases where the immune system attacks the body.
J&J hopes to get the drug approved to treat several conditions and eventually bring in blockbuster sales, as the company bulks up its pharmaceuticals unit, its largest business.
Similarly, Antibe is bringing 346 to Phase 3 in a $16B market for OA but are also planning to chase other indications in short order.
More investigation is needed to see how similar or how different Momenta and Antibe are ... but ... this might help us understand what kind of deals are possible. This also follows on the heals of a $400MM deal at Quest Pharmatech that saw it's lead drug for ovarian cancer get picked up by a South Korean company. The South Korean company was going to cover the Phase 3 costs for that drug as well.
Interesting !