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Bullboard - Stock Discussion Forum VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTL INC T.VRX

"Valeant Pharmaceuticals is a global specialty pharmaceutical firm with a focus on branded products for the dermatology, gastrointestinal, and ophthalmology markets. The firm also has a branded generics business that operates primarily in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Asia."

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VALEANT PHARMACEUTICALS INTL INC > Is Valeant too BIG to fail ?
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Post by StocknerdEQcool on Oct 25, 2015 2:09pm

Is Valeant too BIG to fail ?

In the last 2 years, the share price of this stock  has soared to a point which is almost too good to be real. 

Over 84% of the company.holders are BIG financial institutions, so this looks to me that they have cooked a  giant pie and now  eating it themselves !  Who knows what the consquence of this episode might be ?
Comment by Kherson on Oct 25, 2015 3:18pm
Too good to be true usually ends up being just that! Kherson
Comment by freewest on Oct 25, 2015 3:28pm
they built this company using debt , issuing company stock , and other means which i'm too lazy to look at cause i'm not interested in buying it , never was . it's built like a financial stock , printing money out of thin air and collecting big charges for the drug from sick people , a little like ransom for exchange ..... the whole medical industrie resembles the military industrial ...more  
Comment by teckstocksonly on Oct 25, 2015 4:27pm
You post to much for someone not interested and your posts don't have much merit as you basically only have part of the story. They built this company by buying other companies with drugs they could or wanted to sell. It is called growth by acquisition look it up. Concordia health care is following the same path. It works because of the Canadian tax loop holes
Comment by TSX10Bagger on Oct 25, 2015 4:31pm
The company model isn't the issue you love it or you hate it that hasn't changed what is the question is the accounting practices that are required. 371 pages for a quarterly filing is massive because it is required. We ahve a question about 10% of this companies reported in the end I have to agree with some of the posters if you loved it before you are buying it cheap, if you couldn't ...more  
Comment by freewest on Oct 25, 2015 5:03pm
i'm shorting it at the open
Comment by freewest on Oct 25, 2015 5:05pm
liberals will close the loop holes
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