Karl Thiel
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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This is a good old-fashioned product-slash-platform deal in the sector.
What Sedara does is, most directly, what Merck is buying right now is an influenza
drug that shouldn't be subject to year-to-year variation.
It's a different way of going after influenza.
You can see why that would be a relatively big deal.
There's a lot of flu shots given out every year.
I think it's interesting on a number of levels.
One is just that usually, M&A in the pharma sector is just dominated by oncology, and it still is.
But we've seen a lot more start going to these broader health issues around obesity and around, in this case, infectious disease, so influenza.
The other reason I think it's super interesting is just
that it came at a huge premium.
Yeah, $9.2 billion all-cash deal, 109% premium to where Sedar was trading before that.
I just think that that gets at continuing some mispricing in the sector.
You expect an M&A deal to come at some premium, but that's a pretty big one.