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ALYFTREK is its fifth CF medicine, with disclosed improvements in dosing and mutation coverage; subsequent uptake and higher realized CF net prices provide operating support beyond management's leadership claims.","durability":"Continued product renewal and intellectual-property protection can sustain the advantage, but the supplied passages omit product-specific patent expiration dates, exclusivity periods and comparative competitor results. A narrow advantage is supported; exceptional or guaranteed durability is not.","risks":"Alternative therapies could displace existing medicines. Patent protection may be insufficient or unenforceable, reimbursement restrictions constrain monetization, and reliance on third-party manufacturing creates execution exposure. Pipeline descriptions and manufacturing investment do not establish additional current moats.","invalidation":"The assessment would fail if effective substitutes or loss of enforceable protection caused sustained CF patient displacement, or if reimbursement restrictions produced persistent declines in realized CF prices and demand that product renewal could not offset. Sustained adoption without competitive displacement and preserved realized pricing would support continuation.","competitors":[],"evidenceIds":["e1","e2","e3","e4","e5","e6"],"counterEvidenceIds":["e7","e8","e9","e10","e11","e12"]}],"evidence":[{"id":"e1","sourceId":"filing-3","location":"Proxy summary: marketed products, cystic fibrosis","excerpt":"•Cystic Fibrosis. We continued to build upon our leadership in CF with the launch of our fifth medicine, ALYFTREK, which brings important benefits for patients in terms of meaningful improvements in CFTR protein function, efficacy in more mutations, and once-daily dosing, and continued expansion to lower age groups and new geographies."},{"id":"e2","sourceId":"filing-2","location":"MD&A: U.S. revenue growth, patient demand and realized CF pricing","excerpt":"total revenues increased 11% and 9%, as compared to the second quarter and first half of 2025, respectively, primarily due to continued strong patient demand, including from new initiations of ALYFTREK, and higher realized net prices in CF, and contributions from CASGEVY and JOURNAVX."},{"id":"e3","sourceId":"filing-2","location":"MD&A: international CF performance and product uptake","excerpt":"total revenues increased 14% and 12%, as compared to the second quarter and first half of 2025, respectively, primarily due to strong CF performance across 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of new or improved treatment options could eliminate the use of our medicines or may limit the utility and application of ongoing clinical trials for our product candidates."},{"id":"e8","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Risk factors: limitations of patents and regulatory exclusivity","excerpt":"We may fail to obtain, defend or otherwise preserve patent and other intellectual property rights, including certain forms of regulatory exclusivity, and our current intellectual property rights or protections and those we obtain in the future may not be broad enough or sufficient to protect our commercial interests in all countries where we conduct business."},{"id":"e9","sourceId":"filing-1","location":"Pricing and reimbursement: government control outside the U.S.","excerpt":"In most markets outside of the U.S., the pricing and reimbursement medicines is subject to governmental control and governments are making greater efforts to reduce drug prices and limit drug 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$5,087.8 $6,154.1 $4,572.2 $4,982.0 O.Subsequent Events Crinetics Acquisition On July 6, 2026, we entered into an agreement and plan of merger to acquire (the “Crinetics Acquisition”) all of the issued and outstanding shares of common stock of Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a publicly traded biotechnology company focused on discovering, developing, and commercializing novel therapeutics for endocrine diseases and endocrine-related tumors, for $85.00 per share in cash, for a total equity value of approximately $10.0 billion."},{"id":"e22","sourceId":"filing-2","location":"Subsequent events: delayed draw term-loan facility","excerpt":"Term Loan Credit Agreement On July 30, 2026, we entered into a term loan credit agreement (the “2026 Term Loan”) with the lenders and issuing banks party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative agent, which provides for a $4.5 billion senior unsecured delayed draw term loan A 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4.61% Finance leases 4.51% 4.58% Supplemental cash flow information related to our leases was as follows: Year ended December 31, 2025 2024 2023 (in millions) Cash paid for amounts included in the measurement of lease liabilities Operating cash flows from operating leases $183.2 $113.5 $62.8 Operating cash flows from finance leases $5.6 $25.7 $38.4 Financing cash flows from finance leases $5.4 $33.6 $44.9 Right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations Operating leases $311.0 $1,120.9 $2.4 The majority of right-of-use assets obtained in exchange for lease obligations in 2025 and 2024 are described above."}],"changes":["No comparable previous version."],"limitations":["Assessment uses only supplied passages. Source dates are filing dates: February 13, April 2 and August 4, 2026; they are not retrieval dates.","No named therapeutic competitors are identified in the supplied competition passages. Collaborators, acquisition targets and compensation peers are not established product competitors, so the competitors array is empty.","Product benefits and revenue-growth explanations are issuer disclosures. Reported commercialization, revenue and cash-flow results support the assessment, but comparative clinical superiority and market share are not independently established here.","Product-specific patent claims, expiration dates, exclusivity periods and competitive trial results are missing; long-duration protection cannot be established.","No patient retention rates or switching studies are supplied. Demand and uptake provide indirect evidence, with new initiations and foreign exchange limiting retention inferences.","The proxy supplies actual incentive and governance disclosures, but detailed executive ownership, complete performance targets and comprehensive shareholder-rights evidence remain missing. Proposed 2026 plan provisions are not treated as adopted protections.","The Crinetics acquisition is a disclosed agreement and financing commitment, not a demonstrated completed acquisition or successful investment. The term loan was undrawn as disclosed.","No network effects, relative cost advantage, efficient-scale market structure or demonstrated patient switching-cost moat is established."],"qualityAssessments":[{"category":"moat","checks":[{"criterion":"structural_advantage","grade":3,"rationale":"Successive marketed CF medicines, disclosed product differentiation and subsequent uptake with higher realized net prices support an established intangible-assets advantage. 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