by Raynovich Rod | Oct 22, 2012 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, BIOgraph
Biotech At Risk: Take a Little Off Speculative Stocks Biotechnology remains one of the strongest sectors of 2012 especially earnings driven, large cap stocks all doing well today: Amgen (AMGN $88.4) up 1%, Biogen (BIIB $142.6) up 0.4% and Gilead (GILD $68.85) up 6%....
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 17, 2012 | 2024 Rayno Tools and Diagnostics Portfolio, BIOgraph, Reading List
Ultimate Presidential Election Guide Click above for an interesting sector and stock review from Credit Suisse including major positions of candidates. Stocks in the Rayno Life Sciences Portfolio that were mentioned on the “Obama Victory” side include:...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 16, 2012 | BIOgraph, Macro
Notes from the BioInvestor Forum October 9-12–Biotech Investing The BioInvestor Forum held every year at this time in San Francisco is one of the premier events for emerging companies. Over 500 investors and companies attended with 7 major sessions on investing...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 11, 2012 | 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, BIOgraph
Good Day for Biotech with a Strong Appetite for Two IPOs in A Choppy Market Intercept Pharmaceuticals (ICPT) was up 29.33% to $19.40 on a public offering of 5M shares at $15 raising $75M. The Company is developing clinical stage therapeutics to treat chronic liver...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 3, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals
Biotechnology Sector Continues Amazing Bull Run Up 40% YTD The Rayno Life Science Portfolio had nice gains today with 1% + moves from Biogen-Idec (BIIB) and Gilead Sciences (GILD) and with our bellwether ETF (IBB) eking out a 0.5% gain at its 52 week high. Since the...
by Raynovich Rod | Oct 2, 2012 | BIOgraph, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
Molecular Plays Lead Rayno Dx Focus Stocks Up Illumina (ILMN) rose 4.5% today on “talk” that Roche will increase its buyout offer to $60. Roche told Bloomberg that it does not comment on rumors. Illumina was added to the Rayno Portfolio in 2/2/09 at a...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 26, 2012 | 2023-24 Life Science Portfolios, 2024 Rayno Biopharmaceuticals Portfolio, BIOgraph
Is There No End to the Biotech Bull Market? Biotech ETFs NASDAQ Biotechnology (IBB) up 36% YTD and NYSE (FBT) up 42% YTD Around 1998 I remember vividly two market conversations: one from a Sun Micro sales executive telling me “there is no end to chip...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 25, 2012 | 2023-24 Life Science Portfolios, BIOgraph
Biotech Stocks Remain Resilient On A Bad Day The market took a nasty turn today with a 1.36% sell-off in NASDAQ and 1.05% for the S&P. The damage was across the board but the healthcare sector rose above the flack down only 0.11%. Large cap drug and...
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 17, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals, Clinical Diagnostics and Tools
The ETF IBB (142.62) hit an all time high today and is up 36.6% YTD. The low for IBB over two years was August 19, 2011 at $88.50. Our mid-cap biopharma index is up 0.8% with big winners in JAZZ ($54.65) and Exelixis (EXEL $5.40) and Medivation (MDVN $106.27)....
by Raynovich Rod | Sep 17, 2012 | BIOgraph, Biopharmaceuticals, Reading List
The MASS Biotechnology industry has crossed $6B as a 25 year effort beginning in 1985 with the MASS Biotechnology Council. Several major biotechnology companies were created around this time such as Biogen(BIIB) and Vertex (VRTX) as well as major venture capital...
