Investors Look Beyond Baxter's Stumble for Upside
Baxter's newly minted Medical Products segment, born in its post-recession restructuring, saw the fastest sales growth, with Q1 revenue rising 20.2% year-over-year to $1.86 billion. The segment accounted for $7.4 billion in 2010 sales and includes kidney, injectibles and IV-related products. While kidney products are the largest contributor to sales, accounting for 32% of segment revenue last year, they grew only 1% in the quarter. Instead, growth came from global injectibles, where sales were up 15% to $517 million, and IV therapies, where sales rose 9% to $428 million. Baxter's other segment, bioscience, generated $5.6 billion in 2010 and $1.4 billion in Q1 sales, rising 3% last quarter despite flat results from recombinants, the segment's largest contributor, which accounted for 37% of 2010 segment sales. Driving the upside was its regenerative medicine product line, where sales increased 18% to $140 million in Q1 thanks to Actifuse -- a bone graft material the company picked up when it acquired Apatech -- and Floseal, which is used to control bleeding. The segments antibody therapy products also saw double-digit growth, rising 16% to $374 million. One of the most interesting opportunities for Baxter is in its Gammagard Liquid, used to treat patients with primary immunodeficiencies. Baxter is actively testing Gammagard as a treatment for Alzheimer's, which is the sixth leading cause of death and affects 5.4 million people, and for multifocal motor neuropathy, which affects one in 100,000 people worldwide.Multifocal Motor Neuropathy - News
Investors Look Beyond Baxter's Stumble for Upside
Baxter is actively testing Gammagard as a treatment for Alzheimer's, which is the sixth leading cause of death and affects 5.4 million people, and for multifocal motor neuropathy, which affects one in 100000 people worldwide.
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