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Mylan N.V. (MYL)
Q2 2018 Earnings Conference Call
Aug. 8, 2018, 10:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Good day, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the Second Quarter 2018 Financial Results Conference Call. At this time, all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later, we will conduct a question-and-answer session, and instructions will follow at that time. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I would now like to introduce your host for today's conference, Melissa Trombetta, Head of Global Investor Relations. You may begin.
Melissa Trombetta -- Head of Global Investor Relations
Thank you, Jiji. Good morning, everyone. Welcome to Mylan's second quarter 2018 earnings conference call. Joining me for today's call are Mylan's Chief Executive Officer, Heather Bresch; President, Rajiv Malik; Chief Commercial Officer, Tony Mauro; and Chief Financial Officer, Ken Parks.
During today's call, we will be making forward-looking statements on a number of matters, including our financial guidance for 2018. These forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties that could cause future results or events to differ materially from today's projections.
Please refer to the earnings release we furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K earlier this morning, as well as our supplemental earnings slides, all of which are posted on our website at investor.mylan.com for a fuller explanation of those risks and uncertainties, and the limits applicable to forward-looking statements. Mylan routinely post information that may be important to investors on this website, and we use this website address as a means of disclosing material information to the public in a broad, non-exclusionary manner for purposes of the SEC's Regulation Fair Disclosure.
In addition, we will be referring to certain actual and projected financial metrics of Mylan on an adjusted basis, which are non-GAAP financial measures. We will refer to these measures as adjusted and present them in order to supplement your understanding and assessment of our financial performance. Non-GAAP measures should not be considered a substitute for or superior to financial measures calculated in accordance with GAAP. The most directly comparable GAAP measures, as well as reconciliations of the non-GAAP measures to those GAAP measures, are available in our second quarter earnings release and supplemental earnings slides as well as on our website.
Let me also remind you that the information discussed during this call, with the exception of the participants' questions, is the property of Mylan and cannot be recorded or rebroadcast without Mylan's express written permission. An archived copy of today's call will be available on our website and will remain available for a limited time.
With that, I'd like to turn the call over to Heather.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Good morning, everyone, and thank you for joining today's call. A year ago, we identified what we saw as an inflection point for US healthcare. At the time, we said that each company's intersection with that point would be unique including Mylan. We have continued to approach our industry's evolution from a firm foundation fueled by the fight to provide the world's 7 billion people access to medicine. But during the second quarter, this effort took on new forms, which we believe points to our own inflection point within the industry's broader transformation.
As we've said, our ability to deliver access to medicine is predicated on a continued diversification of our portfolio and geography reach. Investments in these areas in turn drive our durability, which allow us to withstand inevitable headwind. The fundamentals of our global business remain strong. However, there is no doubt we are witnessing a continued rebasing of the entire US pharmaceutical system.
Two years ago, EpiPen gave us the opportunity to begin the dialog about the reality of gross-to-net in our industry, and its impact on the patient experience at the pharmacy counter, which is why we launched a generic at half the price against our own brand. Today, I believe time has shown that EpiPen was not a window in the Mylan's business model, but rather a window into a broken and opaque system. The fact that the President's blueprint to lower drug prices recognize a systemic supply chain issue, and that a single tweet can result in the reversal of several price increases further exemplifies the difference two years has made.
While the dialog has evolved tremendously, actions by market participants to improve the US healthcare environment have been less productive. A significant reason for this, I believe, is that the business of healthcare and the public company framework in which it is conducted have created entrenched interest that have no incentive to course correct themselves. In fact, we see troubling trends that are doubling down on the current system, instead of creating and embracing necessary changes that put the patient's interest first.
From continued vertical consolidation to afforded generic utilization of the country's most expensive drug, we believe current market practices are not sustainable. Market uptake of our glatiramer acetate injection is a prime example of supply chain tactics, capping generic utilization at 15% when two substitutable products have been available for nearly a year. Last year, we launched our glatiramer acetate with a traditional approach, and for nearly nine months, we worked within the system to increase access to no avail.
More recently, we've taken unconventional steps to increase access. If these steps do not prevail, we will make further moves to do our part what we can to reinstate the necessary balance between innovation and access. As this balance has historically been the one aspect of the pharmaceutical industry to simultaneously drive trillions in savings while ensuring patient access to medicine.
Our experience with Copaxone is representative of the perverse incentive embedded in the current system. Even after substantially lowering the price of our product, the supply chain chooses a higher priced alternative. This provides evidence that the business of healthcare feeds on higher prices, frequently putting system interest ahead of patient. Rest assured, we will continue to be vocal about measures to improve the current environment. We will also apply strategic learnings to our commercial planning in this period leading up to our generic Advair launch.
Our results and our guidance for 2018 are directly correlated with the turbulence in the US and the disturbing trends regarding access to complex products. Ironically, our commodity products and core US business has met if not exceeded expectations. Our investments in complex products and biosimilars on the other hand have disappointed in the near-term, but we believe longer-term, we'll continue to drive our growth globally and eventually in the US once balance is restored.
Our rebased guidance of $4.55 to $4.90 incorporates the best visibility we have around complex product launch and utilization assumptions in the US, resizing of US product opportunities and remediation of our Morgantown facility. Europe and Rest of World continue to deliver and be in line with our expectations. While the US market continues to rebase over the next couple of years, we are actively exploring other metrics that could provide better insight into our global performance.
As I stated earlier, our fundamentals are intact and our confidence in executing on our long-stated global strategy is especially pronounced as we're continuing to forecast growth in ex-US markets where more than 60% of our business resides.
Over the past several quarters, we have highlighted our Built to Last platform, and how it differentiates us from our peers. However, we continue to believe there is a fundamental disconnect between the strength of our global profile and the valuation of our security. I'm excited about today's announcement by the Board direct regarding a strategic review committee, which has been formed with independent directors and is chaired by our lead independent director, Mark Parrish to look into all alternatives to unlock value.
Rajiv is going to walk through a couple of updates, and Ken will cover some of the financials in more detail, and then we will take Q&A. So first, please allow me to thank our employees around the world for their unwavering dedication and commitment to Mylan. Thanks to our Board, our management team and our colleagues around the globe. Our foundation and future have never been stronger.
With that, I'll turn it over to Rajiv.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Thank you, Heather. Before I get into a few product-specific updates, I would like to offer a general perspective on our experience with the approval process for the complex products. We have a proven track record in getting many complex generic and biosimilar products across the finish line and approved by FDA and other international regulators. We believe strongly that continuing to secure approvals on these types of products in our pipeline is not so much a question of if, but rather when.
While our confidence in the science and the robustness of our application is unwavering, our ability to reliably predict timing of certain US approvals has been challenged by FDA's evolving review approach, especially in the case of complex generic. At the same time, we are pleased to experience sub-process for biosimilar approvals, which is much more predictable and reliable. We are also keenly aware that providing this much transparency about the timing of these approvals and launches can have unintended consequences, especially, regarding the market dynamics. Given these regulatory and market sectors, we are reviewing the approach regarding the level of detail we provide publicly around the timing of individual product submissions and approvals.
I would now like to spend the next few minutes providing updates on select developments from the quarter. Let's start with generic Advair. I would like to confirm that we received a minor complete response letter on June 27th, which only included labeling and CMC comments. There were no outstanding questions related to clinical bioequivalence and facility. We quickly responded to CRL in mid-July as it required no additional data generation and substantially focused on clarification of existing data.
The agency has signed a minor amendment goal date of the standard three months period following a CRL response. Because this product has received a priority designation, we remain hopeful that FDA will prioritize its review and complete it earlier than our assigned goal date. We continue to be ready with supplies and are prepared to launch upon receipt of approval.
Moving on to generic RESTASIS, we recently received a complete response letter from FDA that request minor clarifications to the CMC, and we have already submitted our response. As already confirmed, this is not a meaningful financial driver, but is an opportunity to provide access to an affordable quality product to the patients.
Now on to Mylan's Fulphila, which is the first FDA approved biosimilar to Neulasta, and the second biosimilar from Mylan and Biocon's joint portfolio approved in US. We launched the product in July and are very proud to lead the first wave of biosimilar introduction in US. Our launch has included a suite of services to further support patients and caregivers with the treatment. We expect a gradual, but sustainable uptake with the product and we continue to ramp up our capacity as we expand our launch. So far, the launch has been in line with our expectations, which have been recalibrated based on our experience with other complex product launches.
I would like to now address EpiPen supply. Unfortunately, our manufacturing partner Pfizer continues to experience interruptions in the production of EpiPen. Currently, Pfizer's supplies to Mylan are inconsistent and inadequate in meeting global demand, including in US. As a result, supplies will continue to vary from pharmacy to pharmacy, and may not always be available. We appreciate how important it is for individuals with the life-threatening allergies to have access to epinephrine auto-injector and understand the challenges this situation continues to pose for patients. We are actively exploring every option with Pfizer that would help stabilize supply, and are in regular dialog with FDA and other health authorities around the world.
I'll now provide the latest update on our sites in Morgantown and Nashik. Mylan has always been and remains committed to maintaining the highest quality manufacturing standards at its facilities around the world. At the end of the June, we released a statement confirming that FDA had completed their recent inspection in Morgantown and made observations in the Form 483. We have submitted a comprehensive response to FDA and are committed to a robust remediation and improvement plan.
As a result of FDA's evolving regulatory expectations, our commitment to maintain high quality standards as well as changing industry dynamics, we have undertaken a restructuring and remediation program in Morgantown during the second quarter of 2018. The program which includes a discontinuation of number of products is aimed at reducing complexity at the facility. These actions have temporarily had a negative impact on production levels, product supplies and operations. However, long-term, these actions will only further strengthen our Morgantown site. As for Nashik, I'm happy to inform you that our warning letter has been lifted and we are operating business as usual.
I would also like to share a few thoughts on the performance of our global commercial platform. US, the largest pharmaceutical market in the world continues to be a very meaningful market for Mylan, despite some of the current challenges and headwinds, Heather talked about. The fundamentals of our business, which include our portfolio, our pipeline, our global supply chain and our customer relationships in USA remains strong. These are the attributes that give us the strength, durability and ability to withstand the current headwinds and evolving industry dynamics in this very important market.
Our Europe and Rest of the World businesses are on track, and we'll continue to see consolidated high-single digit growth in 2018. Our global key brands, like Creon, Influvac, Dymista, Dona and our ARV business remained solid. These regions are further fueled by our new complex product launches, such as glatiramer acetate, Semglee, our biosimilar to insulin glargine, Hulio, our biosimilar to Humira and Hertraz, our biosimilar to Herceptin. We also continue to strengthen this diverse portfolio with the complementary bolt-on business development opportunities.
Before handing the call over to Ken, who will walk you through the financial metrics in more detail, I would like to thank our employees all over the world for their commitment to Mylan and the patients we serve. Thank you.
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Rajiv, and good morning, everyone. I'll take a few minutes to provide a quick overview of our financial results for the second quarter.
Total revenues of $2.8 billion were 5% lower than the prior year. Europe, which was up 4% and Rest of World, which was up 10%, helped to partially offset a 22% decline in North America, driven by lower volumes on existing products including EpiPen, and primarily driven by the timing of purchases of our products by our customers and the impact of the restructuring and remediation program in our Morgantown manufacturing facility. Adjusted net earnings declined 7% to $551 million and adjusted diluted EPS decreased 3% to $1.07 during the quarter, which includes benefits from a lower share count following the completion of our $1 billion share repurchase program at the beginning of this year.
Moving to segment profitability, excluding approximately $87 million of expenses related to the Morgantown restructuring and remediation program, North America adjusted segment profitability declined 28% primarily as a result of the volume declines in sales from existing products. Europe's profitability declined 6% during the quarter, driven by slightly lower pricing and volumes, partially offset by the contribution from new product sales. I'll remind you that the new product launches and seasonal products are weighted more heavily to the second half of 2018, therefore driving more growth in Europe in the balance of the year.
Rest of World profitability expanded 26%, mostly driven by new product sales including those in our ARV franchise, along with emerging market growth. Both Europe and Rest of World continued to benefit from our ongoing integration activities as we execute on our plans to further optimize our cost structure. We also continued to invest in areas such as sales and marketing as we focus on driving growth in several of our global key brands.
Adjusted free cash flow for the six months ended June 30, 2018, totaled $1.3 billion, that's an increase of 22% compared to the prior year, and reflects favorable working capital performance and lower capital expenditures. First half 2018 adjusted free cash flow conversion was healthy at approximately 126% of adjusted net earnings, another measure of the strength and durability of the cash flow generating capabilities of our business.
During the quarter, we completed a EUR500 million bond offerings. These proceeds of this offering combined with those from our $1.5 billion offering in April were used to repay a portion of debt maturing in 2018 and 2019. By extending debt maturities coupled with our strong cash flow generation, we further strengthened our capital structure and increased our financial flexibility as we continue to execute on our business plan for 2018 and beyond.
Our debt to adjusted EBITDA leverage ratio at June 30th was approximately 3.9 times, that's in line with the previous quarter and our expectations. Over the next 12 months, we intend to repay more than $1.1 billion of debt, including EUR500 million of notes maturing this November and $550 million of notes maturing next year utilizing our solid cash generation. We continue to expect that our 2018 year-end leverage ratio will be reduced toward our previously announced guidance of 3.5 times. We remain fully committed to our deleveraging strategy as well as our investment grade credit rating.
Finally, as you've heard earlier, Europe and the Rest of World remain on track to our initial guidance. However, we are revising our overall 2018 guidance predominantly due to the changes in our US business that Heather outlined. We are lowering our previous total revenue guidance range of $11.75 billion to $13.25 billion to our current range of $11.25 billion to $12.25 billion, which is now roughly flat at the midpoint versus full year 2017.
As a result of the lower top line expectations, we've also revised our adjusted EPS guidance to a range of $4.55 to $4.90 per share, down from our previous range of $5.20 to $5.60 a share. Our new adjusted EPS range represents an increase of 4% at the midpoint when compared to the prior year. Even with this new adjusted EPS guidance, we expect to deliver between $2.1 billion and $2.5 billion of free -- adjusted free cash flow that's consistent with our initial guidance as we began this year.
With that, we'll now open the call up for questions. Jiji?
Questions and Answers:
Operator
(Operator Instructions) Our first question is from Jami Rubin from Goldman Sachs. Your line is now open.
Jami Rubin -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Thank you. Just a few questions, if I may. First, on the Morgantown facility remediation plan, which obviously led to lower volumes this quarter. How much of that business, Heather and Rajiv, do you expect to come back and when? I mean, it seems that some of these issues are discontinuations and won't ever come back, but how much of those lost sales are one-time in nature and you expect to come back?
Secondly, in terms of the earnings guidance this year in North America, are you modeling new product launches such as generic Advair?
And then thirdly, just if you can -- maybe this is for you, Ken, help us triangulate how the low end of the old guidance was $11.75 billion and $5.20, while the midpoint is now $11.75 billion and $4.72. Can you explain the difference? The EPS difference is $0.50 and/or $300 million in EBITDA. Can you talk through what that difference is? Thanks very much.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
So, maybe, I'll start, Jami, and then I'll let Rajiv and others chime in. And as far as Morgantown remediation, I think as Rajiv said, we are continuing to totally up that facility and doing it as quickly as we possibly can. So certainly, we are hopeful, I think, as Rajiv said this through 2018 that we will be seeing that continued turnaround, and that's continuing to be able to rebring volume back up to where we said we were bringing it back up to, which is obviously streamline from where the facility has been historically. So kind of that rightsizing and remediation is all happening simultaneously.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Yes. And just going back to the Morgantown, it was not triggered just by this FDA inspection, it was a part of our -- this year's plan actually to rightsize it, because we have observed that it will be very difficult for us to manage this sort of complexity, which Morgantown has, which is 20 billion doses with the evolving FDA expectation.
Having said that, while rationalizing, Jami, we had kept three things in mind. We have stayed close to the customers, and we have picked up the products where there are more than six, seven, eight, 10 competitors. So they're not very -- like from the drug shortage point of view, from the patient point of view, we have taken that into consideration. We have kept, we have made sure of that products, if we are the one of the two or one of the three suppliers, we continue to supply, so that there's never a drug shortage of that sort of product. We have stayed close to FDA.
Now, yes, this is a very evolving and dynamic business as you know, and there are always opportunities when you will get opportunity to get back to the products, and products which are even 10-year, 20-year-old. And we -- once we come back and we are up and running in the full stream, definitely we'll go after the opportunities to get back that volume.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
And as far as our guidance, I'll comment on that, and then Ken can revenue. Look Jami, our rebasing is just that rebasing, and that low end of the guidance takes into consideration worst case scenario. So if we didn't receive Advair, obviously you can hear our tone, we believe, not only should we get it, but we should get it ahead of the goal date in mid-October.
So not we are confident, but certainly want to take the opportunity that, that low-end -- that this range that we've given kind of account for that full spectrum of not only with the product launches in the US, but again, as we talked about the assumptions that we're putting in as far as utilization and also taking into consideration the sizing of now these opportunities which have changed here pretty dramatically in the last several months when you look at what the brand of Advair is today versus what it was.
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
And Jami, I think it's important, I know, you called out, and Heather spoke to the guidance range on the EPS side. As we move through the year, we obviously narrow the top line guidance range. So I think it's probably important not just look at the low point, but where the midpoint has moved. And when you look at that, I think, your question runs to the drop in EPS guidance versus the move in the top line revenues. What I'll reiterate is the change in the revenues go exactly to what Heather outlined in her commentary, and in fact, the way that she outlined, I think, you can kind of size them appropriately based upon the order of complex, products, resizing of the opportunities as well as the Morgantown remediation and restructuring plan.
I'd also point out that the heavier drop on the bottom line is because, there are costs going through the system as we remediate the plant in Morgantown and restructure that plant. So that would be the reason for a slightly larger drop on the EPS side versus the movement in the revenue range.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Gregg Gilbert from Deutsche Bank. Your line is now open.
Gregg Gilbert -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Yes, thanks. I have two. First for Rajiv, back on generic Advair. You mentioned you're confident although there were some questions about CMC and labeling. Labeling sounds straightforward, but CMC may or may not be. Can you talk in any more detail about what that could entail?
And then secondly for Heather and slash the Board, I think, announcing a strategic review at the same time you're lowering expectations in large part talking about and blaming the environment, not just the company, it takes the teeth out of such an important announcement. So I'm hoping that we can focus back on that announcement and can you talk about the strategic review in some more details? What range of options are you considering, or rethinking sale, merger go private or other, and what is the timeline for such a process? Thanks.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Okay. Let me start with generic Advair. As I've mentioned, there were no clinical bioequivalence and facilities related questions, the questions were on labeling and CMC. And you're right, labeling was straightforward and so was CMC. Just given the complexity of this, both product and the submission, the major response which we've filed, a lot of this was around the clarifications around the data, which was already submitted. We had a follow-on call with FDA before we submitted the response just to align that this time we direct them where that data is. There was no additional scientific data generation required, that's why we could turn it around. So we are very optimistic and confident that, I think, this is the last turn and that we have given them what they were perhaps they could not able to -- they were not able to get it from the responses, which were already filed.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
And Gregg, as far as the strategic committee, here's what I would say and as I tried to convey in my opening remarks, I couldn't be more excited that the Board has decided to take this next step to unlock value. I think you've heard me talk about for quite a while being frustrated with the disconnect around the fundamentals in the global profile of our business versus industry dynamics. And I think you called out correctly, we are absorbing industry dynamics in these macro situations and believe that Mylan's platform is in a better position to absorb those headwinds than anybody else. And as we look across the markets, when you see peers, whether here in the US or across Europe or Asia, some of the multiples being applied to businesses that quite frankly, we believe, are very sub-par.
So Mylan is where that frustration grows, and I think you can even look today, where we've rebased. If you took the low end -- the low end of our range and applied a 10 multiple, you're at $45. So I think therein lies the rub and I think our Board taking that next step to put this committee together to be evaluating all alternatives. And I would say, there has been -- this is the beginning of that process, there is no -- there is no, I think [ph], not on the table. I think we'll -- that we will be looking at everything. And certainly as appropriate, we'll come back and report out on that. So that's really about all. There's really nothing more to say at the time about that committee except I am excited about it and I think it's the right next step.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Ronny Gal from Bernstein. Your line is now open.
Ronny Gal -- Bernstein -- Analyst
Good morning, everybody. I have three questions if I may, if you don't mind. First, going back to Jami's question, more for Ken, should we expect a sustainable lower gross margin from Mylan, given the impact of -- on Morgan -- the simplification of the Morgantown facility, that is, given the size of that -- part of the business. Should we expect and accept [ph] net of new product launches, the gross margin to be rebased lower? Or is this just a temporary period, and then we kind of go back to the same area?
Second, on Neulasta, couple of questions there. So first, I know that -- here for the marketplace you chose narrow distribution for the product as opposed to a broad distribution. Can you talk about how that impacts your strategy? Does that mean you're focusing more on physician practices than the larger hospital chains? And can you talk more broadly about your early observation about the adoption?
And last but not least, regarding Advair, it sounds like you're looking for kind of like a 4Q launch here. Your guidance seem to suggest that you're expecting somewhat of a minor impact on the fourth quarter, is this not supposed to come in like a channel fill early on, so if you can talk a little bit about the dynamics if Advair comes to the market and its contribution to the guidance this year, just so we don't kind of mismodel this?
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Yes. Ronny, before Ken answer, I just want to put in perspective. Morgantown is a very meaningful facility for us, but then, if you take our North American business, let's not forget a very important contribution from the transdermal, from the semisolids, the ointments, the injectable business, the Xulane, I think you know the patches like that. So there -- and also in the Morgantown when you pick up, there are some products which make money, there are some products which don't make money, and while we are rationalizing, we're taking all this into consideration to protect as much as we can in a very responsible way, and can get back to that as soon as possible. Now I am handing over to Ken.
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
And you answered it well. So I don't have a lot to add to it other than the fact that also one of Jami's earlier questions was the temporary impact versus the longer impact of that. And as Rajiv and Heather said, we believe that effectively the part of our business that we want to bring back, we're comfortable that that remediation and restructuring is going to be completely effective for Morgantown. And therefore, our profitable business will come back into the portfolio. We've made some choices around certain products as we simplify and make the Morgantown facility less complex. So, overall, this impact is temporary and we believe that our profitability levels are sustainable.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
And Ronny, I think you asked a question around our Fulphila launch, and what I would say, first and foremost is we're very happy with this launch. We're on track with our expectations. We are partnering with clinics, with payers, especially oncology distributors and GPOs. Yes, it's very surgical as you commented, but we have great confidence in terms of how we launched and we are really monitoring and happy with where this uptake has been here in the first month of launch.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Elliot Wilbur from Raymond James. Your line is now open.
Elliot Wilbur -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Thanks. Good morning. Just want to ask a line of question around Copaxone market dynamics. I guess, the company's recent WAC price adjustment got a lot of attention, and still seem to be a subject to debate as to how much of an impact that has actually had on net pricing dynamics. And I guess what -- sort of given the rebate dynamics that Teva is put in place and system's desire for rebates versus savings, what exactly are you doing there in terms of trying to drive incremental uptake? And in fact, has there been much of a change in terms of overall net pricing dynamics sort of post that WAC price adjustment?
And then second question is, can you just help us a little bit more in terms of thinking about EpiPen supply outside of sort of just general commentary on the overall issues? Is there anything you can help us with in terms of fulfillment rates or what we should be thinking about in terms of relative ability to supply in terms of units versus historic rates? That would be helpful. Thanks.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Thank you. So we'll start with Copaxone. I think that what's interesting is -- your question is, does lowering the price really impact the channel? And I think that that probably your question in and of itself, I think, highlights the perverseness of the system we're operating in, and especially, as we're saying around complex products. I mean, I think the fact that we lowered it by 60% and the channels incentivize to continue to stick with higher priced options is in and of itself the problem. And I think if you look at the world that the generic industry has played, there has been this balance of innovation and access, and what we're seeing, and why I said, there are troubling trends on the complex side is, you know, we're seeing low-single digit to 20% generic utilization, and that's what we believe is not sustainable.
So, as I said, we started traditionally with our launch. We moved to unconventional. And I can tell you, we're not going to stop. I think that there are limited tools, but there's other tools out there that we can do to continue to highlight the savings that payers, especially employers should be reaping from the access now to a generic alternative. And I think that as we continue to publicize that drop in price, I think that it is causing. We definitely are starting to see a lot more conversation and questions being asked about why they would be paying so much more for the brand when the generic is available, and saying this what our WAC price is.
So I think that we're continuing those discussions, and like I said, we won't waste a lot of time to continue to do what we need to do to not only improve access, but quite honestly, for us it's about totally move -- removing what we believe is unsustainable for these complex products. If you look at the top 20 most expensive drugs in the country right now, only a couple have generic equivalents. There's a lot more coming and we believe it's absolutely necessary for this country to adopt higher generic utilization rates and allow that access to flow when there's a biosimilar or a generic equivalent available. On EpiPen...
Elliot Wilbur -- Raymond James -- Analyst
The second one on EpiPen supply.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
It's hard to -- it's been very challenging, because of EpiPen supply interruptions. While we have been able to anticipate along with Pfizer team, working with them and working with the FDA and make several improvements to improve the supply chain, a lot of it also to -- from Pfizer point of view, is dependent upon the incoming, the components and the quality of the components. And we have good months of supply from Pfizer, and then suddenly we get a very erratic and which is maybe 30%, 40% off than what we're expecting just because of some quality issues which can come up.
So, first of all, we are staying very close, as the Pfizer is the right company to answer. We are working very closely with Pfizer on this to do everything possible, and -- because we understand the importance from the patient perspective, and we will do everything in our capacity to work with them and work with the FDA to improve this situation as far as possible.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Chris Schott from JP Morgan. Your line is now open.
Chris Schott -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Great. Thanks very much for the questions. Just two here. First, on the strategic review, how are you thinking about short-term value creation and just where the stock is trading today in terms of the longer-term business in the structure. And I guess as part of that, how practical would it be to think about splitting the company, or is the business integrated at this point where you'd be thinking about significant dis-synergies, as we just think about the range of options that are available to the company?
And my second question is just on guidance and your approach to guidance setting. Isn't this second year in a row where I think you started the year optimistic on new launches. You've had to come in mid-year and cut numbers for items that went out of your control. I'm just wondering was there any thought of taking a more conservative approach as you set this guidance or as we think about setting future guidance for the company? Thank you.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Yes, Chris. Thank you. As far as the strategic review, I would say, it's too premature to talk about what's the art of the possible. What I can tell you is, as it states that it's looking at all alternatives to unlock that value. And I think that will continue to be an ongoing review about what would unlock value for shareholders. And I think that, like we said, taking that next step is important, and we'll report back when and as appropriate.
As far as guidance, I think that, as I stated just a few minutes ago, that we absolutely have tried to, to the best of our ability with given more visibility as around complex products, and what -- are continuing to push and be able to take, use our platform to hopefully unlock some of these issues and the blockage that we're seeing in generics, like I said, around biosimilars and complex products. We tried to take this guidance and make sure to incorporate all of that, worst case scenario.
So that, we appreciate that, and I appreciate you stating there last couple of years, there could have been things out of our control that caused that rebase. We do believe that for Mylan this does incorporate that rebase and taking the worst case scenario at that -- at our lower end. I think for the US as a whole though, this continuing rebasing is going to happen for a couple of years. But I think given where we are with our products and the launches that we anticipate, this range should take all of that into account and we look forward to continuing to definitely grow from this point forward.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Gary Nachman of Bank of Montreal. Your line is now open.
Gary Nachman -- Bank of Montreal -- Analyst
Hi, thanks. Heather, the cautious commentary on greater challenges with complex products, you've done a good job putting together a very big complex portfolio. So what do you think really has to change for dynamics to improve there? Is it even more competition in some of these categories? And do you need to diversify even more away from the US market longer-term into ex-US.?
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Yeah. Thank you. Let me start with our global business. We've talked about the opportunities in the pipeline that we've been investing in over almost the last decade as global opportunities, whether it's biosimilars, insulins, Copaxone, these are all things that are feeding our global commercial platform. Obviously, the US as being a very meaningful marketplace, when we see that stalling of generic uptake, it's, as I said, concerning. And I meant every word I said in my opening commentary that they're are troubling trends, I believe that they're not sustainable, you cannot be facing the healthcare expenditure that we're looking at as a country and not expect generics to play the role they have historically, which is saving. It's the only part of the industry that I think has worked like a market.
I don't believe this is about competition, quite honestly, in this marketplace. I believe that we've got significant challenges to the way formularies or tiers, and I think that I would like to call to action that the C-Suite incorporations around the United States be looking at those formulary tiers. The fact that generics, that access should flow historically, there has been brand, non-preferred brand and generics. And once there was a substitutable or an interchangeable product, that access flowed and that's what kept prices down for our -- the payers and the system from government to employees.
When you start blocking that access and putting them on different tiers, you'll see what's happening in consequence to that. You're down in high teens as far as utilization versus 90% in our typical oral solids or small molecule. I think the other issue is the specialty tier in formularies. That specialty tier isn't tiered against brands and then substitutable product or biosimilars. And I think we're really going to have to revisit how that works to allow to ensure that, that access flows. And quite honestly, that's been the feedback we've been giving to the President's blueprint that there has to be that access or it really ruins the model on every other aspect as far as how the industry has worked and is going to have to work as far as sustainability.
So I'm very hopeful that we will be able to -- these changes will be able to continue to be adapted, and there's going to be access forced for these generic alternatives, which quite honestly has been the backbone of the pharmaceutical system here in the United States. And I think we can all agree that as we look at these expensive, the top 20 products, I think more than half of them are biologics. So it's going to be absolutely necessary that we fix the formulary issue.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Liav Abraham from Citi. Your line is now open.
Liav Abraham -- Citigroup Inc -- Analyst
Good morning. Rajiv, perhaps you could address some of the comments you made on the call regarding the generics environment in the US, we've been hearing from some of your peers commentary around stability in pricing dynamics, not among your more complex products, but the base business, if you can just comment on that, that would be helpful?
And then secondly, I'm not sure if I missed this, but can you quantify your revenues from new products in the quarter? I believe last quarter, you talked about $100 million in new product revenues, about half of that being in the US. Please correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm not sure if I missed that number, but if you could comment on that, that would be helpful? Thank you.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Maybe I'll just kick off as it relates, Liav, to the generic environment commentary just you'd asked. I would say, we have seen a stability, a more stable market from a pricing perspective, from our core business here in the US, and we're very optimistic about how that rolls into the future.
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
So on new product revenues, Liav, we did quantify that for you last year -- last quarter. This quarter, it's about $200 million of new product revenues flowing through, and I would say about half of it is in the US.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Dave Risinger from Morgan Stanley. Your line is now open.
David Risinger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Yes, thanks very much. I just was hoping to get a little bit more color on whether your guidance midpoint is conservative. The reason why I asked the question is that Mylan seems perplexed as to its low valuation relative to some competitors in the field of generics, but some competitors tend to provide very conservative guidance that investors can be assured will be beaten, which then enhances the PE multiple. And so I'm hoping that your rebasing is yielding a midpoint that will prove conservative, but I'm not sure if that's the case or not. So maybe you could just provide some more perspective on your level of confidence in the midpoint of the guidance and your policy for providing guidance going forward? Thank you.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Sure, David, and thank you for your question. I guess I'm a bit perplexed about maybe what peers were talking about. I know a lot of our peers have significantly rebased their business over the -- at some point in time over the last 12 months. So again, I think that was the point we were making about the guidance that we've put out today is that we believe that it incorporates the worst-case scenario at the bottom end and we should be able to grow from here.
So I can assure you our intent is to be giving you guidance that we certainly believe that we're going to meet. And -- so we've taken all that into consideration and I just believe that's why I made the point earlier that this has been our inflection point with the industry and the turmoil that the US is in. And I think that as complex products, as we continue to hopefully see that steady growth from a utilization perspective will really be what allows Mylan to continue that growth from here. But we believe we've incorporated where that stands today, and taking like I said, the worst case scenario into consideration.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Jason Gerberry from Bank of America. Your line is now open.
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Hey, good morning. Thanks for taking my questions. Just a couple. Just, as I think about the complex generic opportunity, it sounds like absent changes to the system is the only catalyst for rapid generic adoption, just more approvals and then a shift to multi-source pricing such that the brand company just isn't able to contract as effectively. So that's my first question.
And then just on the biosimilar opportunity, can you confirm are there any supply issues that you have out of the gate, just kind of curious for a little bit more color around the delay in terms of the launch?
And then lastly, will you in the future be breaking out biosimilar revenue? I know that's one thing that investors -- some of your stickier businesses like OTC and biosimilar, which typically command higher multiples, just sort of curious if you'll be thinking about providing investors with greater visibility? Thanks.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Okay, sure. I'll start with the multi-source question. Here's the irony again of, I think where we find ourselves at this moment. The commodity type products, our core business as we said, is meeting our expectations, because of the broad portfolio that we have and those levers that we have to pull with all the different dosage forms in the channels that we operate in the US system.
When you look at the complex products, the reason we've invested and have continued to bring not only our science now having a proven track record, but our ability to launch and to supply these products is because there is a high barrier to entry, and there is not going to be five-plus players, at least not in the near-term. And you would think that a company would get rewarded for that investment and bringing those alternatives to the marketplace, and instead what we're seeing right now is just blocking and using that generic as a stalking-horse to play the tactics that are blocking it.
So what I can tell you is that I don't think this is about getting four or five competitors, I don't even think that's reality. I think what we need to focus on is requiring formulary access to generic alternatives and that's what we're pushing for and that's going to make the market work effectively and efficiently as it has been meant to do. And I think that's what we'll continue to fight for and that's where you'll see the difference in a meaningful way about utilization uptake.
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
And regarding your question on biosimilars, I would say, while modeling the biosimilars, we have taken into consideration the current launches around the world, and we have modeled a ramp, a slow ramp as compared to the oral solid generics and all that. So you can see a slow ramp and longer annuity, and that's what we have modeled. We have three launches planned in the second half of the year. The one is the Neulasta for USA; the second is the Semglee, the biosimilar to the insulin in Europe; and the third is toward the -- in the last quarter, we have Hulio, which is the biosimilar to the Humira in Europe. And we don't see any supply constraints for any of these things. Yes, supplies do get ramp up as we have modeled them according to our launch models.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Umer Raffat from Evercore. Your line is now open.
Umer Raffat -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Hi, thanks so much for taking my questions. Heather, you shared your thoughts on the disconnect between the intrinsic value versus the market view. And my question is, there must be a business where you think the disconnect is the most, which one is that and what part of the company is that? One.
Second, maybe it will be interesting to get your thoughts on just the weakness in Europe and whether it was driven by Morgantown or other factors?
And then finally, Rajiv, I know you mentioned CMC issues on Advair. My question is are you no longer worried about the new drug device combo guidance from FDA, which should have issued separate from the product-specific guidance? Thank you.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Okay. And Umer, I'm sorry, on your first question, I didn't quite get what you said about what do I think is working. What was the last bit of it?
Umer Raffat -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
It was more -- what part of the business you think have the most disconnect in value? Is that a certain part of the company or certain geography, et cetera?
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Okay. Here's where I think the disconnect is. We had US-centric shareholders that live and breathe the United States and are living the turmoil that we're seeing every day from presidential tweets to, the turmoil and the turbulence that we're facing. So if you -- with that mindset, you can understand that you can obviously become very absorbed with what's happening here in the US. I think where we believe that that disconnect is, is really measuring our global profile, and the fact that more than 60% of our business is outside the United States, we're going to continue to diversify both portfolio and from a geographic reach. And I think that's what's allowed us to absorb the volatility.
I mean if you look at our business 2017 to 2018 basically with where we've just rebased, were flat. And I think in the environment, especially here in the US that that's pretty heroic. So I think that what -- where we fundamentally see that, is not getting credit for the global profile that we have created. And that's what we're going to continue to go figure out how to unlock that value. As far as Europe, I would not say weakness, but...
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Morgantown is not a reason for anything to do with Europe. Morgantown is predominantly -- when I say, predominantly, 95% plus a US-centric supply side. So that is not a reason for any weakness in Europe. The question -- and your third question was on drug device -- the new guidance, which is on the drug device. And let me just confirm that CMC question, included some questions on the drug device, but they were about the clarification on the data which we've already submitted and some additional scientific justification on some of that. So the new guidance has not played into a new question Umer.
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
Let me add a comment here, because we've had several questions on guidance, whether it would be breaking up biosimilars or how do we set guidance. I don't want to let the opportunity pass to reiterate the commentary that Heather said in her opening comments that as we look at this business, we continue to look at the performance metrics that we think are best to measure this business.
So as we move forward, we're going to be looking at things beyond EPS as to the factors that we will be talking both internally and externally about how do we guide this business. And we've spent a lot of time talking about EPS ranges this morning, but those are relatively short-term metrics. And I think I just want to make sure that we all understand is we talk about not just this quarter and this year, but going forward that we will be looking at other metrics to guide this business.
Operator
Thank you. Our next question is from Irina Koffler from Mizuho. Your line is now open.
Irina Koffler -- Mizuho -- Analyst
Hi. Thanks for taking the question. On the subject of guiding the business, I think Rajiv mentioned that you're not going to provide as much granularity about the timing of product approvals in your communication. Can you expand on that just because there's already now a lot of granularity in product-by-product sales. So if we don't have timing of potential approvals, it just gets even harder to model the business, and I was just hoping you can expand on that. Thank you.
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
So, look, I think we gave -- we have given historically down to the day that we think something is going to get approved. And I think all that you heard us reiterate is that kind of predictability and certainty just doesn't exist in the system right now. So it's not -- we can't give a date and then get punished for missing that date when that date has uncertainty to it. And so all we're trying to warn is that our guidance is taking that in. And I think as Ken just reiterated, which is why we're continuing to search for metrics that will allow us to guide on how our performance is.
Obviously, new products and new product launches is what our business is all about. So those are extremely important. And as approvals come to the market, obviously, the market is very aware of those products being in the marketplace. I think we're just trying to sensitize that there is a cautious balance between trying to be predictive in a non-predictive environment, when it comes down to the minute of the day. And I think whether something's off a day or a week or a month, certainly it's our responsibility to guide those large drivers, and we will continue to do that.
Operator
Thank you. Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for your participation in today's conference. This concludes the program. You may now disconnect.
Duration: 59 minutes
Call participants:
Melissa Trombetta -- Head of Global Investor Relations
Heather Bresch -- Chief Executive Officer
Rajiv Malik -- Chief Commercial Officer
Kenneth Parks -- Chief Financial Officer
Jami Rubin -- Goldman Sachs -- Analyst
Gregg Gilbert -- Deutsche Bank -- Analyst
Ronny Gal -- Bernstein -- Analyst
Elliot Wilbur -- Raymond James -- Analyst
Chris Schott -- JPMorgan -- Analyst
Gary Nachman -- Bank of Montreal -- Analyst
Liav Abraham -- Citigroup Inc -- Analyst
David Risinger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Umer Raffat -- Evercore ISI -- Analyst
Irina Koffler -- Mizuho -- Analyst
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