by Raynovich Rod | Apr 30, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Consolidation Continues in Mid Cap DX Companies: Bull Market in Biotech Hits New Highs Our Life Science Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio had a nice hit today with GenProbe up 18.75% on the Agreement that it would be sold to Hologic (HOLX $18.82 down 11.2%) for $3.7B or...
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 23, 2012 | Biopharmaceuticals, Macro
Biotech Outperforming Tech Lately: M&A Hit of the Day Ardea Biosciences The market continues its choppy trend with the QQQ’s off 0.9% to $65 with some Internet high fliers like AMZN and NFLX taking a hit. But biotech recovered from earlier losses with the...
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 19, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals
Biotech Rally Ignited By Clinical News and M&A Theme The biotech sector roared back today with major ETF’s IBB ($122) up 2.4% and XBI ($78.6) up 5.1 % driven primarily by Gilead (GILD $52.23) up 12 % and other large caps like Regeneron (REGN $127) up 2.5%....
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 10, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals
Nice Recovery in biotech today with our mid-cap index up almost 1%. Without doing a lot of detailed analysis it looks like stocks that have major institutional sponsors are rallying. Smaller caps without significant volume are still lagging. Two high fliers : Vivus...
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 6, 2012 | BIOgraph, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Who to Watch Among the Pure Play DX Companies? High fliers with cache’ among traders and investors: CPHD,EXAS. Value plays for earnings turn-around: ALR, QGEN. Niche companies: NEOG, SQNM. Personalized medicine plays: GHDX, QGEN. M&A potential? Very quiet...
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 4, 2012 | BIOgraph
Early Stage Diagnostic Players With Novel Biomarkers We posted an overview on Seeking Alpha of two emerging diagnostic companies focused in novel clinical biomarkers which are FDA cleared. Products are now being launched with a revenue build expected by Q2 2012. As we...
by Raynovich Rod | Apr 2, 2012 | BIOgraph, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Here is an update of our Diagnostics and Tools portfolio. Diagnostics and Tools have underperformed the biopharmaceuticals sector over the past 6 months with the exception of the companies acquired. Major acquisitions over the past 12 mos. have boosted performance:...
