UBS Maintains a 'Buy' on Watson Pharmaceuticals (WPI); Bullish on Acquisition Announcement

April 26, 2012 2:39 PM EDT
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UBS maintains a 'Buy' on Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: WPI) price target raised from $71 to $80.

Analyst, Marc Goodman, said, "The pros of the deal include diversification, synergies, lower tax rate, capabilities in injectables, semi-solids, liquids, and biosimilars (insulin), low cost manuf. and CRO, and 3rd party EU dossier dev. The Actavis biz. is better than we thought. It appears $8.00 is the base case and, while we are only taking our estimate there for 2013, we could see it move north of $8.25. For 2014 we had pointed to $8.66. Now we are moving to $9.00, but we wouldn’t be surprised if 2012 end up > $9.50."

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Shares of Watson Pharmaceuticals closed at $69.69 yesterday.


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