Profit Taking On High Fliers- INCY, MDVN, PBYI, XBI

Agilent(A) Growth Slows

NASDAQ Flat at 4234 12:15p EST

After hitting new highs this week biotech stocks are in a wave of selling so watch technicals and volume.  The small cap, speculative weighted XBI ETF is down 1.81 % after an early reversal off AM Valentine’s Day highs. The “equal weight” holdings gets re-balanced quickly but many of the XBI stocks are down this week and today: ALNY,GALE, ICPT, NVAX, PBYI, SGMO etc. -see detailed holdings. The IBB is much less volatile than the XBI due to more concentrated holdings of large caps.

There is a lot of red within the Rayno Biopharmaceutical Portfolio such as : ALKS down 2%, CBST down 1.9%, GILD down 2.2%, PCYC down 2.9% and  SGEN down 3%.  BIIB is stable up 0.34%.

Most mid and small cap biopharma stocks in our index are red except ACHN, ARIA , GERN and THRX.

In the tools/diagnostics sector and possibly a bellwether Agilent (A $56) is down 6.7% on slower revenue growth and guidance.

Earlier this week we urged a life science sector weighting to 15% cash due to huge moves in January.Update after close today.

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