Rayno Diagnostics and Tools Portfolio Rayno Life Science top picks were up 20 to 53% beating the NASDAQ and S&P. Five new stocks were added in 2013: BG Medicine (BGMD), Genomic Health (GHDX), Hologic (HOLX), Vermillion (VRML). One major trend is larger cap tools companies like Illumina (ILMN) and ThermoFisher (TMO) diversifying into clinical [...]
Biomarker Products for Cardiovascular Disease and Cancer This is the third article on Emerging Biomarker Companies. See 11/15/12 Update The synergies between diagnostics and drugs are growing as more treatment options require better data for cost-effective, targeted therapeutics.The development of unique biomarkers has been considered the “Holy Grail” of innovation in diagnostics but is slow [...]
Rayno Diagnostics and Tools-Awaiting Q1 Results Many Rayno Diagnostics and Tools stocks have made new highs recently despite the sector being less frothy than biopharmaceuticals. These stocks are more pinned to financial results and dependent on a steady stream of new products. Important themes are genomics, molecular diagnostics, companion diagnostics and novel assays for infectious [...]
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 [...]
Hologic (HOLX) Offers Good Long Term Value We will add Hologic Inc. to our Diagnostics and Tools Portfolio. Prior to its acquisition by Hologic we had GenProbe Inc. on our focus list. Hologic (HOLX $21.70), Market Cap of $5.84B, offers good long term value with a Price/Sales of 2.7, book value of $2.984B, P/B of 1.94 [...]
Big Movers on a Blah Day Abaxis (ABAX $45.87) all time high. Albany Molecular (AMRI $10.41) 3 year high, outlook up Alere (ALR $24.17) laggard value stock with novel health information strategy Cardiovascular Systems (CSII $19.03) up 15.33% Sequenom (SQNM $4.53) up 5%, Q4 Sales hit $33M New pick Achillion (ACHN $9.29) up 1.3% [...]
