Buy Hold Sell: Flesh wound or flatline? 7 ASX healthcare stocks dissected

Buy Hold Sell, by Livewire Markets · May 7, 2026 · 21m

For years, the ASX healthcare sector was the picture of health itself - a compounding growth story that investors treated as a set-and-forget holding. Then came a brutal twelve months. The sector has shed nearly 40%, with former darlings and long-standing heavyweights hitting lows not seen in a decade. The causes aren't simple, and perhaps most disorienting is the ‘defensiveness’ that investors paid a premium for has simply stopped working. As one of our guests in this week's episode says, to quote The Castle - "The vibe is off." To work through the prognosis, Livewire's Anna Dadic is joined…