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Vishnu Lekraj

Despite Amazon's Acquisition of PillPack, Market Underappreciates Drug Supply Chain Moats

On June 28, Amazon announced it will purchase mail-order pharmacy startup PillPack. This move will give Amazon a foothold within the pharmaceutical supply chain and was the most logical step for the online conglomerate to make as we believed retail pharmacy was going to be the easiest segment of the pharmaceutical supply chain for Amazon to enter. However, we also believe it will still be tough for the firm to create any major disruption within the healthcare space given the insurance dynamics t...
Underlying
Express Scripts Holding Company

Express Scripts Holding is a pharmacy benefit management (PBM) company. The company has two reportable segments: PBM, which consists of clinical solutions, Express Scripts SafeGuardRx

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Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

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Vishnu Lekraj

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