OSI Pharmaceuticals and Eyetech Pharmaceuticals Announce Signing of Definitive Merger Agreement
The acquisition of Eyetech by OSI creates a diversified biopharmaceutical company that focuses on three therapeutic disease areas of significant market potential: oncology, eye diseases and diabetes. The combined company will have two major marketed products (for the treatment of cancer and age-related macular degeneration) and a robust product pipeline offering both new indications for the marketed products and novel therapeutics in all three disease areas.
With combined revenues of over $600 million projected for 2006, OSI will be well positioned to accelerate profitability into 2006. Moving beyond 2006, OSI believes that revenues of the combined company will grow at a compound annual growth rate in the mid-teens for the five-year period starting in 2007, and that EBITDA and adjusted EPS (which excludes the amortization of identifiable intangible assets related to this transaction) compound annual growth rates during the same period will be greater than 30 percent and 25 percent, respectively, creating a strong growth company further supported by a dynamic product portfolio and pipeline.
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