Any chance JNJ ends up losing on this transaction? Just can't see much life left in Incivek.
JNJ presumably knows that the HCV market outside the US—especially in the Big-5 EU countries—has enough inertia to allow the $152M to be recouped. Additionally, the deal may have an element of tax arbitrage by increasing JNJ's foreign income and lowering its US income.
“The efficient-market hypothesis may be the foremost piece of B.S. ever promulgated in any area of human knowledge!”