ALR ($21.58) Continues to Sell-off Slicing through 3 Mo. Technical Bottom We have included Alere in our diagnostics and tools portfolio since 2/2/09 at a price of $25, and although the stock is trading more than 10% under that price 3 years later, there was an opportunity to get out in the 40′s with a [...]
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 [...]
Personalized Medicine Achieves Milestone with Lung Cancer Drug Friday’s rally picked up steam today as devastation from Hurricane Irene was less than expected and consumer spending was up. Greek stocks also rallied on a bank merger. Why are Greek stocks boosting this market? NASDAQ and the S&P were up more than 2%. Our favorite trading [...]
Biopharmaceutical stocks got a boost today from a rally in NASDAQ stocks and some positive news on cancer drugs from ASCO. The IBB ($106.36) was up 1.6% off its YTD and all time high of $110 and a nice rally after five days of weakness.The XBI was also up 1.97%. Many biotech stocks hit their [...]
Speculation in small cap biopharmaceutical stocks has peaked and we urged weeks ago to raise cash positions to 10-15%. The ASCO “sell on the news effect” has continued today with some high fliers off significantly: Exelixis (EXEL $8.95) is off 18% after the Company reported over the weekend six deaths(1% of patients treated) in a [...]
GE announced the purchase of Clarient (CLRT) for $5/share or $580M, a 34% premium over Clarient’s previous closing price. Revenues forecasted for 2011 and 2012 are at $114M and $136M respectively, pricing the deal at a Price to Sales of 4.25 to 5X. Revenues for Q1 were $26.6M with a loss of 370k; Q3 revenues [...]
