Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA, Financial) continued to face headwinds, with sluggish generic product introductions and pricing pressures. With a new CEO at the helm, Teva launched a comprehensive restructuring plan to shore up its balance sheet. The company enacted layoffs and plant closures, optimized its generics portfolio and reviewed of its R&D and drug pipeline. Consistent with this agenda, Teva announced the termination of its CGRP migraine drug discovery and development pact with Sosei. The company also renegotiated some of its debt at much higher interest rates than previous. Neither of these actions was well received by the market.
From Bernard Horn (Trades, Portfolio)'s first quarter 2018 shareholder letter.
