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 [...]
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, [...]
Biotech Sector (IBB $119.73) Up 12 % YTD, Lagging NASDAQ (QQQ) Up 17.85% Here is a summary of our recommendations over the past month: No change in our basic Rayno Life Science Portfolios.Biopharmaceuticals have outperformed Tools and Diagnostics. Continued strength with following stocks at or near new highs are : Amgen (AMGN $68.43), Biogen (BIIB [...]
CEO Jay Flatley was on CNBC at 4:55p today with Maria Bartiromo. Maria asked him why the Company did not accept the Roche offer? He answered ” because the offer was near the stock’s low for the year and was opportunistic and did not reflect the value of the Company.” Flatley also reiterated the huge [...]
Not A Good Time To Overweight Biotech Positions We are still in a holding pattern and recommend that caution be exercised regarding new positions. Although biotech stocks have made a nice run over the past five days driven by News from Vivus (VVUS) and Threshold (THLD) the IBB ($119.78) is still off its one year [...]
