INVA

Investors need to pay close attention to INVA stock based on the movements in the options market lately.

Investors looking for stocks in the Large Cap Pharmaceuticals sector might want to consider either Innoviva (INVA) or Merck (MRK). But which of these two stocks is more attractive to value investors?

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Global biosecurity alarms are flashing after an incident at an anti-plague research facility in Siberia sparked a severe public health response. Following the fatal lab exposure of a researcher in Irkutsk region to Yersinia pestis – the bacterium causing pneumonic plague – Russian officials placed several regional hospitals under quarantine and isolated nearly 200 contacts.

Innoviva is a company that is transitioning from a pure royalty-based business to a diversified healthcare company with commercial products and strategic assets. I have rated Innoviva as a buy with a probability-weighted fair value of $35.26 and a base case value of $36.92. This represents a 68.1% upside from here. GSK royalties have been a main source of revenue and are now under pressure. But new therapeutic products have been ramping up to close the gap left by royalties.

Supernus Pharmaceuticals NASDAQ: SUPN and Indivior Pharmaceuticals announced a proposed all-stock, tax-free merger of equals that would create a central nervous system-focused biopharmaceutical company with approximately $2.2 billion in pro forma trailing 12-month net revenue as of June 30, 2026.

WALTHAM, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics, a subsidiary of Innoviva, Inc. (Nasdaq: INVA), today announced that it has entered into an exclusive distribution and licensing agreement with Dr. Reddy's Laboratories Ltd., a global pharmaceutical company, for the development and commercialization of XACDURO® (sulbactam for injection; durlobactam for injection), co-packaged for intravenous use, in South and Central America, the Caribbean, Russia and Commonwealth of Independent S.

BURLINGAME, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Innoviva, Inc. (NASDAQ: INVA) (“Innoviva” or the “Company”), a diversified biopharmaceutical company with a core royalties portfolio, a leading critical care and infectious disease platform known as Innoviva Specialty Therapeutics (“IST”), and a portfolio of strategic investments in healthcare assets, today announced that management will participate in the following upcoming investor conferences in June: Goldman Sachs 47th Annual Global Healthcare Conference.

Innoviva (INVA) came out with quarterly earnings of $0.44 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $0.43 per share. This compares to earnings of $0.25 per share a year ago.