A Great Quarter for Many Tools and Diagnostic Stocks The tools and diagnostics sector usually underperforms biopharmaceuticals because the companies are more tethered to deal news and fundamentals. We will review our focus stocks below as Q1 earnings come in. NASDAQ is down about 3% over the last 5 trading days so many of the [...]
AACC Meeting Hangover Begins With Cepheid Earnings Cuts–Stock Off 24% on Volume of 7M shares Cepheid (CPHD) a leader in molecular diagnostics, forecasted earnings of 38-42 cents a share for the year down from 50-55 cents a share on expected revenues in the range of $333-347M. Revenue for Q2 was $81M an increase of 21% [...]
On robust and active Life Science trading day two laggard diagnostic stocks perked up: Iris International (IRIS $9.41) is up 4.44% on FDA clearance of its iChem Velocity Workstation for automated Urine Chemistries. The stock is been trading from $9-10 over the past six months.P/S for 2011 forecasts is 165/119 or 1.39X. Felti and Co. [...]
