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 lately. Whale deal for 2012: spin-off of ABT Diagnostic Div. Roche hostile bid for ILMN and emerging [...]
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 get news and more financial data we will update this post. Institutions [...]
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: Celera, Immucor, Microfluidics and Seracare. Illumina is currently in play with a $51 bid from [...]
We have updated our Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio with total returns from inception 3/9/09 to 3/30/12. Biggest winners are Alexion (ALXN) Biogen (BIIB) , Cubist (CBST), Regeneron (REGN) and Viropharma (VPHM)-all over 200%. Over the same period the IBB ETF was up 75%. Losers were Albany Molecular (AMRI) down 40% and Gilead (GILD) down 4%. The ten [...]
Two Companies With Major Biotech Themes: Orphan Drugs (ALXN) and Targeted Cancer Therapy (RGDX) IBB ($122) Weak Down 1% – 52 Week High of $124 One of our Top Performers in the biopharmaceutical sector Alexion (ALXN $89) took a hit this week and down over 3% today on volume of 2.7M shares, on an article [...]
Diagnostics Stocks Are Relatively Calm After Patent News: But Patents Still Matter The Supreme Court Ruling threw out two process patents on diagnostic tests because they were based on the laws of nature and that they were merely telling doctors of a new scientific discovery.In the WSJ article some expressed big concerns: “Michael R. Samardzija, [...]
