Different facets of the healthcare industry either generated major profits or suffered hefty losses during the second quarter of 2017, according to Axois.
Here are four notes:
1. Of 13 companies with net profit margins of at least 17 percent, 12 were pharmaceutical companies.
2. Drug company Gilead Science had the largest profit margin of 43 percent.
3. Compared to 2016, five large payers had higher second-quarter profit margins, including Cigna. Cigna had the highest profit margin of 7.9 percent.
4. Pharmaceutical distributors AmerisourceBergen, Cardinal Health and McKesson all had profit margins falling below 1 percent. The dip is in part due to decreasing generic prices.