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Analyst
Tazeen Ahmad
Period: Reporting periods mapped to calendar 2024 Q4 – 2026 Q2 (7 quarters).
- Questions
- 29on tracked calls
- Challenge rate
- 10%3 of 29 questions
- Companies
- 5questioned at least once
- Reporting periods
- 7with questions
These figures cover the whole profile: every tracked question, all reporting periods.
How to read these numbers
Challenge rate is the share of questions that pushed back, pressed for specifics or questioned management’s assumptions. It describes how questions were asked on the calls tracked here; it does not measure whether any view turned out to be right.
Rounding. Rates are rounded to whole percentages, so a small share can show as 0% even when some questions were challenging. The count beside each rate is exact; “none of N questions” means no question was challenging.
No questions recorded. “—” means there is nothing to calculate: no questions were recorded for that period on the calls tracked here. It does not mean there was no activity.
Fewer than 3 questions. A company-level rate is withheld when fewer than 3 questions were recorded for that company; the questions are still counted everywhere else.
Small samples. Profiles with fewer than 10 questions are marked Limited sample.
Reporting periods. Questions are grouped by the calendar quarter each company’s fiscal reporting period maps to, not by the date of the call. Periods without a calendar mapping are listed separately under their fiscal label.
Questions asked
Grouped by company, most questions first. Open a company to read its questions, newest reporting period first.
Showing 29 of 29 questions from 5 companies
VRTXVertex Pharmaceuticals9 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 9 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
how are you thinking about what additional benefit your drug could provide into this space
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Reshma: engineered TACI, continuous (no on/off cycling) dosing, and once-monthly auto-injector should beat rivals across efficacy, safety, admin.
Calendar 2026 Q1
on the CF pipeline, I just wanted to get a sense of what data you plan on showing in the second half of the year for 828
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Reshma confirmed VX-828 readout will include sweat chloride and safety from a small patient cohort. Not powered for ppFEV1.
what your thoughts are on the read-through from this positive IgAN study that you provided top line for recently
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Reshma cited IgAN PK, PD, proteinuria, and safety data as positive signals for membranous, though noting the autoantibody target differs (PLA2R vs GdIgA1).
Calendar 2025 Q4
what results do you think would provide your mind
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Reshma pointed to RUBY-3 80mg IgAN cohort as best analog for RAINIER, citing 56% proteinuria reduction at 36 weeks. Emphasized compounding benefit over decades of chronic treatment where even small proteinuria improvements matter.
Calendar 2025 Q3
what the FDA had seen thus far that let them give you the confidence to start the filing early and get this breakthrough designation
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Reshma confirmed a pre-BLA meeting was completed where FDA reviewed all data and filing plans, leading to breakthrough designation and rolling submission endorsement based on unmet need and attractive clinical profile.
Calendar 2025 Q2
Is it your plan to launch with the auto-injector when you go live on IgAN
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Reshma confirmed auto-injector launch for IgAN. On gMG prioritization, cited high unmet need, strong emerging class data, efficient regulatory pathway, and pove's engineered best-in-class properties.
Calendar 2025 Q1
I'm just curious as to what the profile of the patients are that are the earliest onboarders and where in the treatment regimen are these scripts being written
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Duncan detailed usage across surgery and non-surgery settings, from joint replacements to ankle sprains and fractures. Also seeing repeat physician use with positive clinical feedback.
Calendar 2024 Q4
I just wanted to get a sense of expectations for the type 1 diabetes data that you're set to show
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Reshma detailed VX-880 targeting ~60,000 patients initially, with encapsulated device program and hypoimmune gene-edit programs aimed at all T1D patients.
for this year, just to clarify, are you expecting to see cannibalization of ALYFTREK from ALYFTREK
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Stuart confirmed expectation of transitions from TRIKAFTA and older modulators to ALYFTREK but declined to give switching rate guidance.
ALNYAlnylam Pharmaceuticals7 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
I wanted to get a little bit more color about your comments about frontline is now about 80% of new starts.
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Tolga addressed both the channel split and the education gap, and Pushkal added the HELIOS-B and APOLLO-B evidence for additive benefit on top of stabilizers.
Calendar 2026 Q1
is there any reason to think that a result like that would not have been replicated with AMVUTTRA
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R&D head expressed confidence competitor results would be positive and validate class effect already demonstrated in HELIOS-B. Positioned nucresiran TRITON-CM as potentially the largest combination dataset.
Calendar 2025 Q4
how long do you think it would take for patients to appreciate something like that, be it the base, switching from vutrisiran to nuceresiran when it becomes available
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Management expects nuceresiran to drive swift uptake post-2030 with best-in-class profile and no royalty obligations, potentially pushing operating margins to mid-40s. CFO noted consensus gross margins mid-70s through 2030, with vast majority of compression from Sanofi royalty.
Calendar 2025 Q3
as you're thinking about or currently negotiating 2026 status, can you share with us some of the feedback that you're getting from payers
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Management confirmed no payer headwinds across all segments. 2026 policies being negotiated with similar favorable dynamics expected. No step edit expansion anticipated.
Calendar 2025 Q2
how you're thinking about net price for AMVUTTRA and gross-to-net moving forward
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CFO confirmed mid-single-digit net price reduction for AMVUTTRA in 2025 vs 2024. Payer dynamics moving as expected with first-line access and minimal out-of-pocket costs.
Calendar 2025 Q1
who are the prescriber base? Are they people that have already had previous experience with AMVUTTRA
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Management confirmed broad prescriber mix with both existing PN prescribers and new cardiologists adopting AMVUTTRA for CM, highlighting rapid formulary adoption as key enabler.
Calendar 2024 Q4
how long you think it's going to take to establish payer policies after the approval of vutri
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Management directly addressed timeline, stating payer policy and formulary uptake will take months post-approval with meaningful demand ramping in H2 2025.
INCYIncyte7 questions · 7 reporting periods · 0 of 7 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
give us a little bit more color on what exactly you’d like to improve and when you think this could move into clinic
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Cagnoni described the existing subcutaneous path as clear with an FDA bridging strategy, and positioned Halozyme as added optionality unrelated to emerging data.
Calendar 2026 Q1
how do you see this coexisting with Opzelura in the commercial space? What's been your experience with marketing and this indication so far
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Bill sees oral approvals medicalizing vitiligo like AD/psoriasis. Incyte has topical-to-oral advantage with Opzelura for BSA<10 and povo for BSA>10. Mohamed sized systemic vitiligo TAM at $1.5-2B.
Calendar 2025 Q4
can you just give us your sense of what the uptake is in the current approved indications? And the average number of tubes that are being used
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Bill broke down: AD 60% of business growing ~20%, vitiligo 40% growing mid-teens. Pediatric annualizing $30M. International doubling to $130M. 10-15% CAGR over next 5 years with organic + HS indication + EU AD launch driving toward ~$1.3B by 2030.
Calendar 2025 Q3
How important is that going to be for people to believe that you have convinced efficacy as a stand-alone
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Pablo confirmed 50 monotherapy patients with substantial follow-up. Benchmarked against momelotinib (SVR35 7-22%, TSS50 25-26%). Will include clinical endpoints plus translational disease-modification data.
Calendar 2025 Q2
maybe this is for Pablo on some read-through from the mCALR data that you saw from ET and what to maybe expect to see for MF
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Pablo emphasized mechanistic clarity from ET increases MF confidence. Shifted MF data release to later in year to include combination data with ruxolitinib. Expects spleen volume reduction, symptom improvement, hemoglobin improvement.
Calendar 2025 Q1
You had guided the data for this calendar year. Is that still the plan? And if so, can you just give us a little bit of guidance on what level of data
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Pablo confirmed substantive CALR data coming in 2025 with dose escalation across ET and MF, including clinical endpoints and early VAF variability/fraction burden data.
Calendar 2024 Q4
can you give us a sense of how you got to guidance for this calendar year? Specifically, how are you thinking about the number of tubes
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Christiana broke down guidance drivers: continued AD/vitiligo growth, pediatric launch contribution, European expansion. Noted tube usage evolving with patient activation.
GILDGilead Sciences3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 2 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
Are you still planning on sharing a Phase II Update for your Alpha 4 Beta 7 program in IBD
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Berger confirmed a Phase 2 update for the Alpha 4 Beta 7 IBD program later this year, with clinical and histological remission endpoints.
Calendar 2026 Q1
I wanted to ask your thoughts on how you are thinking about the impact to Trodelvy sales in triple negative
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Joanna emphasized Trodelvy's established standard-of-care position and NCCN category 1 recognition but did not directly address the competitive impact from datopotamab's potential approval.
Calendar 2025 Q4
Are you expecting to begin to see cannibalization of Descovy PrEP sales as early as this year
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Johanna expects both Descovy and YES2GO to grow in 2026 with rising awareness lifting all boats. YES2GO will become market leader over time. Descovy growth expected to erode as YES2GO gains share. Declined to discuss gross-to-net specifics but noted YES2GO value proposition is recognized in 90% access achievement.
REGNRegeneron Pharmaceuticals3 questions · 3 reporting periods · 1 of 3 challenging
Calendar 2026 Q2
what you think doctors, in particular, could respond to as a differentiating factor
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All three of McCourt, Schleifer and Yancopoulos answered, contrasting quarterly dosing and sustained efficacy against FcRn cycling and loss of response over time.
Calendar 2026 Q1
how are you thinking about the importance of having a late-stage program clearly defined before the U.S. IP for DUPIXENT goes away
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Schleifer pushed back on the premise, noting Regeneron has nearly 50 pipeline programs and doesn't focus narrowly on simple DUPIXENT replacement.
Calendar 2025 Q4
do you think is differentiated in your program? Do you think that you'll need to show a visual acuity benefit
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Yancopoulos argued antibodies and siRNAs are more powerful than aptamers/peptides used in approved GA therapies. Systemic approach avoids bilateral injection burden and blinding risks (retinal vasculitis). Testing both cemdisiran monotherapy and combo. Crowe confirmed prospective secondary endpoint for 15-letter visual acuity loss.
Challenge rate by company
Every company this analyst questioned, most questions first. A company-level rate is shown from 3 questions; below that it is withheld.
| Company | Questions | Challenge rate |
|---|---|---|
| VRTX Vertex Pharmaceuticals | 9 | 0%none of 9 questions |
| ALNY Alnylam Pharmaceuticals | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| INCY Incyte | 7 | 0%none of 7 questions |
| GILD Gilead Sciences | 3 | 67%2 of 3 questions |
| REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals | 3 | 33%1 of 3 questions |
Activity by reporting period
Questions recorded for each calendar quarter that companies’ reporting periods map to (not the call date), with the challenge rate for that period. Periods inside the range with no questions are shown as “No questions recorded”.
| Calendar period | Questions | Challenge rate | Companies |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Q4 | 4 | 0%none of 4 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q1 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q2 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q3 | 3 | 0%none of 3 questions | 3 |
| 2025 Q4 | 5 | 20%1 of 5 questions | 5 |
| 2026 Q1 | 6 | 33%2 of 6 questions | 5 |
| 2026 Q2 | 5 | 0%none of 5 questions | 5 |
- 2024 Q44 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 4 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q13 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q23 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q33 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 3 questions) · 3 companies
- 2025 Q45 questions · challenge rate 20% (1 of 5 questions) · 5 companies
- 2026 Q16 questions · challenge rate 33% (2 of 6 questions) · 5 companies
- 2026 Q25 questions · challenge rate 0% (none of 5 questions) · 5 companies
Topics
Topics tagged on this analyst’s questions.
- Innovation & R&D15
- Competitive Dynamics11
- Product Launch8
- Demand6
- Pricing3
- Revenue Growth3
- Margin2
- Regulation Policy1
- Guidance Reliability1