Can The Pipeline Soothe A US Generics Pricing Headache?

Diversified Businesses Provide Sustainability After Challenges Of 2021

Following a year marked by aggressive pricing pressures weighing down on revenues and margins – pressures that “intensified beyond historical norms and our recent expectations,” as one company put it – the first quarter of 2022 provided some green shoots of optimism, albeit for companies that have been able to shift resources to more complex assets.    

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After several years of relative price stability for US generics companies, following the painful fallout from the most recent cycle in 2016-17 that rocked manufacturers big and small, the thorny issue of pricing pressure began to rear its head again last year.

“A lot of that’s being driven because of volume declines we saw in Q1,” observed Sandoz Inc. head Richard...

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