Who Does Not Know About the Bull Market in Biotech Stocks? The bull market in life science stocks gathered momentum today as the IBB rallied 2.34% (up 16.6% YTD) approaching its all time high of $122.45. At some point in time we need to have a correction as this rally is approaching 1999 ebullience. I [...]
Early Player in Genetic Testing and Personalized Medicine Reloads RGDX Stock Trades Up 36% on Volume of 105k Shares at $1.60 Response Genetics (RGDX) announced today that it has entered purchase agreements with private investors including current holders to raise more than $7.8M with placement of 5.3M un-registered shares of common stock at a price [...]
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 [...]
You read about it every year, and always there are skeptics, but in Q4 2011 to Q 2012 the “January effect ” rally for small cap and life science stocks were big winners. Why does this happen? Not so important just that it does happen. Here are our December focus picks (see earlier posts): [...]
Life Science stocks got a boost from news and presentations at the J.P.Morgan Healthcare Conference and most stocks from the Rayno Life Science Portfolio were up.(see our “January Effect” trades mentioned in December). Leading life science tools companies Illumina (ILMN $34) up 3% again today,and Life Technologies (LIFE $46.28) were boosted by new product announcements, new [...]
Here are some key points from our 2011 Biotech Stock Review posted in Investor Uprising: Winners from the 2011 Rayno Life Science Portfolio: Abaxis (ABAX), Alexion(ALXN), Amgen (AMGN), Biogen(BIIB), Bristol-Myers (BMY),Celera(acquired),Cephalon (acquired) Cubist (CBST), Exact Scientific (EXAS),Gilead (GILD), BioETF (IBB), Immucor (acquired), Neogen (NEOG), Regeneron (REGN),Quidel (QDEL), Seattle Genetics (SGEN), United Therapeutics(UTHR) and Viropharma (VPHM) Losers: Alere [...]
