Walgreens Boots Alliance: Is Pharmacy Defensive?

2022-07-06T23:28:25+02:00

Use the podcast player below to listen to our discussion on Walgreens Boots Alliance and its Q3’22 result, which accompanies the detailed write-up below: (Date of report: 6 July 2022) Walgreens Boots Alliance is a pharmacy retail group that sounds like a defensive play at first blush. But as we will explore in this podcast and report, the business model of these types of retailers isn’t as robust as one may think, especially in the US where the pharmacy benefit managers hold incredible power in the value chain. It all comes down to gross margin, so product mix is critical. Dispensary [...]