How much would you pay if you were BP and a drug t

How much would you pay if you were BP and a drug that was better than yours was coming out and the company had a shoestring budget at the time? It’s a pretty easy scenario to perceive and know they would put hundreds of millions of dollars into slowing it down until they got something out there to counter it. They will also know when to start buying the stock as we, the ordinary people hear it last. As we know, it is a vicious business that treat lives as numbers and they can manipulate many agencies with a few job offers and a pittance of money in this industry