Rayno Life Science Stocks Having A Nice Q1 Ending Run Well known Large Caps Dominate Rayno focus stocks that are running up 2% + today: AMGN, AMRI, ASTX, BIIB, GILD, QGEN, and REGN. The Biopharma sector is outperforming Tools and Dx for Q1. Tools and DX winners for the week are ALR, ILMN, and [...]
Raise a Little Cash as Macro Focus Brings Choppy Action Life Science stocks took a hit today underperforming NASDAQ which was down only 3.35 pts. The biotech sector has been pretty much on a tear since the November bottom as they re-accelerated in mid-December. The biotech ETF (IBB) shows a double top from October and [...]
Bullish Mentality Drives Usual MO-vers: PCYC, MDVN, REGN, SGEN It is hard to add biotech stocks to your portfolio at these elevated levels but big players like Fidelity, Cap World, JPMorgan, T.Rowe Price and selected hedge funds- Orbimed, Baker Bros, etc can drive their holdings up more on any good news. Case in point is [...]
A double top in the biotechnology sector could be developing although many mid and small cap stocks are in the green. We are still at or near the October highs in the sector but the seasonality effect is waning (strong November -January performance). Moreover many of the top performers in 2012 are owned by all [...]
Biotech ETF’s Slightly Outperform Life Science Mutual Funds There has been an ongoing debate in the media on the performance of ETFs compared to actively managed funds so we have compared the performance in a hot sector like biotech which is entering its 5th year of a bull market. The NYSE Arca Biotech Index is [...]
Is There No End to the Biotech Bull Market? Biotech ETFs NASDAQ Biotechnology (IBB) up 36% YTD and NYSE (FBT) up 42% YTD Around 1998 I remember vividly two market conversations: one from a Sun Micro sales executive telling me “there is no end to chip stocks”; the other from an astute investor telling a [...]
