Stock price when the opinion was issued
Stock has been hot since the summer when the new CEO took over, then they got approval for their schizophrenia drugs. (Abbvie's drug failed last month.) But BMY has fallen 9% in the past 4 weeks--maybe because of concerns over the group, not the stock. Trades at only 7.9x PE 2025, and pays a 4.4% dividend which just increased last week. The stock is dirt cheap.
They have huge oncology franchise, but face a huge patent cliff. But they have a some promising drugs. He owns this partly for the 5.6% dividend. He took shares off the table when the stock spiked earlier this year, but at current levels, he's watching the price go lower before buying again.
A company with a very deep pipeline of drugs, one of the major ones being the cancer drug Opdivo, specifically in the immuno oncology area, which the market has written off for now. Merck (MRK-N) has clearly beaten them to the punch on lung cancer with Keytruda, but there is still a vast market, awaiting on the Opdivo end, and he thinks the market is not giving it its due value. Also, this is a potential take out candidate for something like Johnson & Johnson (JNJ-N) or Pfizer (PFE-N). Dividend yield of 3.16%. (Analysts’ price target is $59.12.)