Teva: A Peculiar Bloom

To suggest that Teva is “the best” healthcare stock to deploy a thousand dollars into is, admittedly, a rather pedestrian phrasing. Let us instead say it presents a peculiar opportunity. The fourth-quarter earnings report – a document often as thrilling as a beige wall – revealed a revenue of $4.7 billion, an 11% increase. Adjusted earnings per share clocked in at $0.96, a figure that, while exceeding analyst expectations (those charmingly optimistic soothsayers), was somewhat inflated by a $500 million windfall from Sanofi, relating to a drug candidate named duvakitug. A rather cumbersome name, don’t you think? It evokes images of a disgruntled duck. Stripped of this temporary gloss, growth settles into a more modest, yet still respectable, few percentage points. But beneath the surface, a metamorphosis is underway.








