M&A Theme Provides Underlying Bid to Market Roche Holding, the most diversified diagnostics and pharmaceutical Company with an aggressive leveraged strategy for the molecular basis of disease and personalized medicine has offered $5.7B for the leading Company in genetic sequencing and life science tools with revenues in the $1B range. The offer was $44.50 but [...]
Pharmasset Buyout Brings To Mind M&A Upside for Biotech Stocks: ETF’s and Funds Lead the Way Gilead (GILD $35) stepped up with a huge buyout of Pharmasset (VRUS $134.21) driving the stock up 89% over Fridays’ close and 519% YTD! Pharmasset has no revenues but has a three potential hepatitis-C treatments in clinical trials that [...]
We attended the BIO Investor Forumin San Francisco this week and will provide a brief review of select technologies and companies on Monday. Despite a funding gap for earlier stage companies we believe the life science sector continues to offer good opportunities for investors. By now you have read every market summary on the big [...]
Rayno Life Science picks had earnings news and overall the Portfolio was up 1%. Albany Molecular (AMRI $3.49) stock was up 5.44% on low volume but showing steady recovery from recent lows in the $3 range. AMRI is a value stock trading at a market cap of $105M with forecasted revenues in the $222M range. [...]
Another stealth rally led by financials took the S&P 500 up 2% helped by a turbo boost in the last 90 minutes as The Guardian reported that France and Germany agreed to boost the rescue fund.Oil prices rebounded driving energy shares higher. Some pundits as well as EU officials were skeptical of the Guardian news [...]
Risk is on for Life Science Stocks The rally that began late tuesday continued into the third day with major biotech indices up over 2%.The Rayno Life Science Portfolio was up 2.2% with recent reiterated buys up even more: AMRI, EXAS, GPRO, OPTR, REGN, SGEN, and VPHM. Illumina (ILMN $39.93) was off 0.2% and the [...]
