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		ip26 on Oct 14, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Pharma companies continue to raise drug prices at ... Can you really trust the margins? If they were making a killing, I would expect plenty of creative accounting to hide that fact.

Excel_Wizard on Oct 14, 2019 [–]

If it's a private company (not publicly owned) we have zero ability to know, they would not have to publish any financials.

If it's a public U.S. company we can know with 100% certainty via GAAP accounting.

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