Pure Play Clinical Diagnostic Companies
Here is data on our clinical diagnostics universe including Q3 revenues and earnings.
- New buy is Cepheid (CPHD) under $32.
- Sequenom is up 22% over 5 days
- Turn-around plays are Alere (ALR), Qiagen(QGEN) and Response Genetics (RGDX)
- Four companies on our list have been recently acquired
- Growth and acquisition plays are: ABAX, CPHD, EXAS, NEOG, QDEL and SQNM.
Company | Ticker | Price | RevEst | Q3 Rev | Price | 2011 | P/S | PE | PEG | SE | |
May’11 | 2012 yr | 2012 | 26-Nov | Rev | BV | ||||||
GenProbe* | GPRO | 80 | 642 | 143 | sold 66 | 576 | 5 | 64 | 1.9 | 700 | |
Abaxis | ABAX | 28 | 183 | 44.3 | 36.8 | 155 | 4.4 | 35 | 2.6 | 160 | |
Alere | ALR | 36 | 2,780 | 701.6 | 17.94 | 2,386 | 0.5 | n/a | 0.7 | 2,229 | |
Cepheid | CPHD | 30.5 | 332 | 80.5 | 31.9 | 70.2 | 6.3 | n/a | n/a | 230 | |
ExactSci | EXAS | 4.12 | 1 | 9.5 | 4 | 152 | n/a | n/a | 110.6 | ||
GenomHlth | GHDX | 25.85 | 236 | 49.8 | 28 | 206 | 3.6 | 116 | n/a | 147 | |
Hologic | HOLX | 1,880 | 470 | 19.35 | 1,789 | 2.7 | n/a | 1 | 3,004 | ||
Immucor** | BLUD | 20.3 | 345 | 83.3 | sold 27 | n/a | 5.5 | 21.2 | 2.2 | n/a | |
Luminex | LMNX | 20 | 201 | 50 | 17.4 | 184 | 3.6 | 64.6 | 2.7 | 248 | |
Meridian | VIVO | 23.4 | 190 | 41 | 20.45 | 160 | 4.4 | 28 | 1.3 | 141 | |
Neogen | NEOG | 40.6 | 205 | 49.7 | 45.3 | 173 | 5.2 | 41 | 2 | 229 | |
Orasure | OSUR | 86.5 | 21 | 7.76 | 82 | 4.9 | n/a | n/a | 175 | ||
Qiagen | QGEN | 20 | 1,240 | 264 | 18.4 | 1,170 | 3.5 | 38.8 | 1.7 | 2,548 | |
Quidel | QDEL | 14.55 | 145.4 | 33 | 17.4 | 158 | 4 | n/a | n/a | 187 | |
Resp Gene | RGDX | 2 | 18 | 5.4 | 1.08 | 22.6 | 1.6 | n/a | 1.1 | -8 | |
Sequenom | SQNM | 85.4 | 22.8 | 4.5 | 55.9 | 6.1 | n/a | n/a | 75.6 | ||
SeraCare# | SRLS | 3.7 | 46.2 | 11 | sold 4 | 43.5 | 1.8 | 36.3 | n/a | 40.3 | |
Techne | TECH | 80.5 | 318 | 75 | 72 | 290 | 8.3 | 22.5 | 1.7 | 681 | |
** sold for $1.97B to TBG Capital | #sold for $80M | ||||||||||
** sold for | $3.7B to Hologic | Names in BOLD are on focus list | |||||||||