by Raynovich Rod | Oct 31, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals
Huge Profits YTD Bring Selling-Momentum is Broken Profit taking has hit the biotechnology sector again today with major ETFs down 2% and momentum stocks hit harder. We recommended caution on 10/22 (see below) as momentum eased on stocks that were up over 100% YTD with...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 23, 2012 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio, BIOgraph, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Cepheid in Low $30’s- Long Term Buy Cepheid is not a cheap stock with a Price to Sales of 6.82, market cap of $2.10B and a forward PE of 122.58 but we see a capitulation of sellers who were playing the MO game with a very expensive stock. Nonetheless Cepheid is...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 22, 2012 | 2025 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, BIOgraph
Biotech At Risk: Take a Little Off Speculative Stocks Biotechnology remains one of the strongest sectors of 2012 especially earnings driven, large cap stocks all doing well today: Amgen (AMGN $88.4) up 1%, Biogen (BIIB $142.6) up 0.4% and Gilead (GILD $68.85) up 6%....
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 17, 2012 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio, BIOgraph, Reading List
Ultimate Presidential Election Guide Click above for an interesting sector and stock review from Credit Suisse including major positions of candidates. Stocks in the Rayno Life Sciences Portfolio that were mentioned on the “Obama Victory” side include:...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 16, 2012 | BIOgraph, Macro
Notes from the BioInvestor Forum October 9-12–Biotech Investing The BioInvestor Forum held every year at this time in San Francisco is one of the premier events for emerging companies. Over 500 investors and companies attended with 7 major sessions on investing...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 12, 2012 | Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Exact Sciences (EXAS) is down about 8% to $10.65 on heavy volume after a Wedbush Downgrade to Neutral. Preliminary data coming next week. The stock was added to the Rayno Life Sciences Portfolio on 12/10/10.Barron’s had a positive article on Oct 6 and the...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 11, 2012 | 2025 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, BIOgraph
Good Day for Biotech with a Strong Appetite for Two IPOs in A Choppy Market Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) was up 29.33% to $19.40 on a public offering of 5M shares at $15 raising $75M. The Company is developing clinical stage therapeutics to treat chronic liver...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 3, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals
Biotechnology Sector Continues Amazing Bull Run Up 40% YTD The Rayno Life Science Portfolio had nice gains today with 1% + moves from Biogen-Idec (BIIB) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) and with our bellwether ETF (IBB) eking out a 0.5% gain at its 52 week high. Since the...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 2, 2012 | BIOgraph, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Molecular Plays Lead Rayno Dx Focus Stocks Up Illumina (ILMN) rose 4.5% today on “talk” that Roche will increase its buyout offer to $60. Roche told Bloomberg that it does not comment on rumors. Illumina was added to the Rayno Portfolio in 2/2/09 at a...
