Will AbbVie Inc (ABBV) Earnings Stay Healthy?

That puts Gilead Sciences, Inc. (NASDAQ:GILD)’s sofosbuvir in the driver’s seat, as it treats hep-C viruses of different genotypes. The big question for AbbVie is whether breakthrough status will give it a leg up as it seeks to combine its own stable of drugs into a single therapy to avoid revenue sharing. But the recent approval of Abbott Labs’ hep-C genotyping test could boost attention for the disease and paint AbbVie in a favorable light within the industry.

Still, AbbVie faces plenty of competitive pressure. Late last month, the company got bad news when the European Medicines Agency approved two rival autoimmune-disease medications that were biosimilars for J&J’s Remicade. If the trend continues, the EMA could move on to approve other biosimilars that would hurt AbbVie Inc (NYSE:ABBV) more directly.

In the AbbVie earnings report, watch to see how the company discusses its strategy for its hep-C treatment, as well as the rest of its pipeline. With the importance of figuring out what it will look like after Humira, AbbVie has plenty of work to do to convince investors that the company will thrive beyond the next few years.

The article Will AbbVie Earnings Stay Healthy? originally appeared on Fool.com and is written by Dan Caplinger.

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