Rayno Life Science Tools and Diagnostics: What’s Hot and Not?
It was a tough week in Life Science Tools and Diagnostics with many crosscurrents: debt ceiling uncertainty, earnings shortfalls, lackluster economic data and European debt crisis. The usual positive buzz from the AACC offered little support. We will provide an updated financial comparison of...
Nice Snapback Rally in Life Science Today-ILMN Up 3.93%, Abaxis (ABAX) Leads Up 5%
Rayno Life Science Portfolio Recovers Up 1.73%; Jobless Claims Help The thrashing of Illumina (ILMN) yesterday appears to be overdone as the stock is recovering to the $60 area on volume of over 3.5M shares as of mid-day trading.The Tools and Diagnostics sector is still weaker than Biopharma...
Illumina Guidance Drags Down Life Science Tools Sector: Maintain Caution
Dog Days of Summer Lie Ahead- Q3 Seasonality in Life Sciences is Weak A vicious 16% sell-off in Illumina Inc. (ILMN $58.43) due to revised 2011 guidance and subsequent analysts' reduced outlook. Concerns about sales growth are a new concern. Revenue for Q2 was $287M a 36.5 %increase over Q2...
QQQ Still Outperforming IBB and XBI in Vicious Sell-Off
Weakness in tools such as ILMN ($59.30) down 15% is hurting biotech. Also our mid cap biopharma index is down 2.5% . So the NASDAQ-100 is favored due to the inclusion of AAPL, AMZN, INTC and MSFT etc and larger cap biotech...
QQQ Trade Beats Biotech ETF’s after One Week
Last week we recommended that bulls trade the QQQ rather than pure biotech with ETF's such as IBB. The strategy was based on the outperformance of biotech compared to tech given that the Q's also have several large cap biotech stocks. Moreover with IBM and AAPL showing great earnings and price...