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by jsjohnst 3112 days ago
In the examples you gave, they were huge markets and they were ripe for disruption. As the article laid out, most of the drugs which have experienced this huge hike are ones with very limited markets. It’s not worth it for a pharmaceutical company to jump into a new drug with almost no market for it.
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Medications blow electronics market out the water.
That’s such a vague statement you could either be wildly wrong or mostly right. If you’re talking average profit margin, yes medications generally have higher, but electronics are fairly good margins generally too. If you’re talking market cap / overall market size, you definitely aren’t correct. Even the biggest pharmaceutical company pales in comparison to the electronics top three.