Business Strategy and Outlook
| Karen Andersen |Amgen has its roots in providing supportive-care products to kidney disease and cancer patients, but the firm has expanded its portfolio to include additional innovative drugs in therapeutic areas ranging from cardiology to immunology. Despite headwinds from biosimilar and branded competition, Amgen's newer blockbusters like cholesterol-lowering drug Repatha defend its wide moat and keep free cash flow above 30% of sales in our forecast.