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XBI directional thesis

Small-cap biotech gets bid up as cash-rich pharma buys out innovators to refill pipelines facing a $170B+ patent cliff; an equal-weight basket of those targets captures the takeout premiums.

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“Certainly the GLP-1 boom. One of the trends that's going on here is that the industry has to restock the shelves for new drugs. As drugs go off patent, there's these revenue cliffs. And so Big Pharma is sitting on probably the largest pile of capital they've ever sat on, and they look to acquire a lot of their innovations from small companies. Those are the folks that we support to create new medicines. So there's definitely a huge M&A trend that's happening this year, and it'll continue to happen for the foreseeable future.”
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