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Citi has told clients that a large chunk of deal risk is already in AstraZeneca PLC's (LSE:AZN, NASDAQ:AZN) share price after Monday's sharp fall, while Deutsche Bank sees clear parallels with the drugmaker's Alexion acquisition five years ago. The two notes are the second-day response to a...

Even if a megamerger fails to materialize, investors stand to benefit from a wave of M&A activity in the biopharma sector.

Big drug companies have been buying scrappy biotechs to expand their pipelines, but the potential megamerger between AstraZeneca and Bristol Myers Squibb could flip that script.

Investors questioned whether combining AstraZeneca with Bristol Myers would strengthen growth enough to justify the financial and regulatory risks.

The UK drugmaker is reportedly talking to Bristol Myers Squibb about a nearly $400 billion tie-up, but investors are struggling to diagnose the logic.

The FTSE 100 index closed down 10.35 points, 0.1%, at 10,857.70.

One of the largest global pharma companies would be created if a deal were to materialise.

BMY surged roughly 6% in premarket trading on the news before fading; the stock is now trading near flat. The asymmetric price reaction captures the market's immediate verdict: AZN shareholders see a value-destructive deal, while BMY holders see a potential premium exit.

European stock markets closed mostly higher in Monday trading as the Stoxx Europe gained 0.4%, Germa

Bristol Myers Squibb stock is surging Monday following a report of a potential mega-merger with a competitor.

AstraZeneca stock took a nosedive Monday amid reports it's mulling a mega-merger with Bristol Myers Squibb.

A combination of the two pharmaceutical companies could create an entity valued at nearly $400 billion, according to the Financial Times

The merger would be one of the biggest pharma deals ever. AstraZeneca’s market capitalization stood at $264 billion as of Friday’s close, while Bristol Myers Squibb had a total valuation of $133 billion.

If maintained until close, the decline would be the stock’s biggest one-day percentage fall since the day of the 2024 U.S. presidential election.

The move would mark one of the industry’s largest ever deals and create the world’s fourth largest pharmaceutical company.

Investing.com -- AstraZeneca PLC (NYSE:AZN) and Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (NYSE:BMY) have held talks in recent months about a deal that would combine the companies into one, according to a Financial Times report.

AstraZeneca is plotting a $400bn (£300bn) merger with US rival Bristol Myers Squibb in a deal likely to raise fresh questions over the company’s ties to the UK.

AbbVie (ABBV) lowered its full-year earnings guidance on Friday to account for the expected dilution

Sanofi wants to broaden the company’s productive partnership with Regeneron, its CEOs said. Elsewhere, Bristol Myers delayed two anticipated study readouts and a Shionogi-backed startup went public.

Agenus is financially abandoning an ongoing study in late-line colorectal cancer. Elsewhere, an ebola vaccine began human testing and an important Bristol Myers medicine got an FDA decision date.

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