Karl Thiel
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I think even just any sign that they're going to be able to return to growth will do that.
They have some fast-growing newer drugs that are relatively new introductions, and they made some interesting acquisitions around radiopharma, for instance, and some next-gen oncology drugs.
I think this is a point in which there are lots of reasons to be negative, but you're sort of at, I don't want to say we're necessarily at peak negativity, but I would say that there's definitely a very dark cloud hanging over the company, and any sign that that's lightening up could help with the actual stock price, even while you're just collecting the dividend.
Well, you know, let me, I'll put it back to you just a little bit, which is beyond that concern, which, you know, hard to say how people are regarding it.
Do you think there's a concern just that, you know, the client base is, as you say, you know, mostly self-insured companies, that there's just a sort of simple cyclical economic concern around layoffs and sort of economic contraction around some of those companies, you know, that might be
That might be something that's holding the company down and also something that you presume we get past.
I'll test my ability to make compound sentences.
Argin-X, based in the Netherlands, is a very successful biopharma company, sells a drug called Vivegard, mostly for myasthenia gravis.
Sales jumped 97% to $949 million in the second quarter.
That's nearly a $4 billion run rate and still growing.
Yes, but any market this good attracts a lot of competitors, and there are some very serious ones that could be better than Viveguard.
And it widened its footprint by acquiring Alani New and managing the Rockstar beverage and deepened its stake with Pepsi.
Yes, but Celsius risks cannibalizing its brands with this much larger portfolio of beverages.
Yes, and in their Q2 for fiscal 2026, they raised their full-year revenue guidance to over $41 billion and are looking at improvements in operating margins and solid cash flow growth.
Yes, but they confirmed 4,000 job cuts in 2025 and some hiring pauses, showing some struggles underneath the hood.