A prime exchange-traded fund supplier is betting on the long-term reputation of GLP-1 weight reduction medicine.
Roundhill Investments’ GLP-1 & Weight Loss ETF (OZEM), which started buying and selling final week, pairs leaders Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk with gamers creating new therapies for weight reduction and diabetes. CEO Dave Mazza mentioned his agency is capitalizing on explosive progress potential within the trade.
“The power to have energetic administration to chubby firms which might be truly in market producing the medicine after which go down the road to establish these which might be specifically phases is highly effective,” Mazza advised CNBC’s “ETF Edge” final Monday.
Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk every maintain a roughly 20% weighting within the ETF, per Roundhill’s web site as of Friday. The three subsequent largest positions are Zealand Pharma, Amgen and Chugai Pharmaceutical, every of which have a weighting underneath 5%.
Up to now yr, Eli Lilly is up 90%, whereas Novo Nordisk has gained 68%, as of Friday’s market shut. Mazza waived issues that buyers have missed out on the rally, noting the burden loss drug trade remains to be in its “early days.”
“{The marketplace} has loads of room for progress with different firms coming in, whether or not they’re with extra highly effective medicine or with issues that really you need not have an injectable.”
He additionally sees GLP-1 drugmakers following the same trajectory to AI-linked shares.
“It is a bit of bit like fascinated about Nvidia with AI. They only have a head begin,” Mazza mentioned. “[Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk] pivoted to concentrate on diabetes and weight reduction medicine just a few years in the past, had been capable of get in market and produce outcomes which might be exceptional.”
After final Tuesday’s launch, shares of Roundhill’s GLP-1 & Weight Loss ETF ended the week down by virtually 2%.
