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In its effort to shed its non-core businesses Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is reportedly shopping...

  • Friday, January 25, 6:30 PM ET
    In its effort to shed its non-core businesses Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) is reportedly shopping its women's health unit. The unit, which competes with products from Procter & Gamble (PG), had world-wide sales of around $1.6B in 2012, which represents just a small percentage of JNJ's $67B in total sales over the same period. Still, with the right price tag, it's big enough to potentially pique the interest of private-equity buyers.
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    Please oh please have AAPL purchase it.
    We'll NOW have iPad Maxi.
    25 Jan, 06:59 PM Reply Like
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    As JNJ has enough cash right now to able to buy a small country, why get rid of a cash cow ? Let them find a small group of companies that need to cover there burn rates & then buy them & make discoveries for the 21 st. century. At that time unload & recover cash.
    26 Jan, 07:13 AM Reply Like
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    Women's health products production is capital intensive and highly dependent on commodity prices. They are definitely not the cash cow they once were. If does make sense to sell the business to someone else with the economies of scale or the vertical integration as KMB or SCA, and take advantage of the strong equities JNJ brands have.

    Long JNJ
    26 Jan, 12:46 PM Reply Like
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