Category: BioTech
The analysis published under this category are as follows.
Friday, May 23, 2014
Four Telltale Signs of a Bioscience "Blockbuster" Biotech Stock in the Making / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: The FDA's Expedited Programs help get promising new therapies for seriously ill patients approved as soon as possible.
But they also create an unintended side effect that's a huge advantage for investors: They point exactly to the biggest money-making opportunities in the bioscience industry.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Biotech - New Melanoma Therapies Are Ready for Primetime / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Melanoma confronts patients and their physicians with unique barriers to treatment and successful outcomes. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Dr. Sanjiv Agarwala, chief of medical oncology and hematology at St. Luke's University Hospital, illuminates some of the new paradigms being developed in the treatment of this deadly skin cancer. Along the way, he spotlights interesting work in the field.
The Life Sciences Report: You have been a principal investigator in several different clinical trials exploring skin cancers and their metastatic manifestations. Because of your position at a major teaching institution, do you see mostly advanced-stage or late-stage patients? Are you ever able to see early-stage or treatment-naďve patients?
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Friday, April 25, 2014
Biotech Long-Term Profit Machines Stock Prices on Sale / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Michael A. Robinson writes: Market volatility has suddenly created some great opportunities, including those in the biotech sector.
Supporting the inevitable ascent of the industry is the release of a steady stream of compounds that have helped them rack up billions in new revenue.
Consider that since it began trading in early 2001, the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology Index (Nasdaq: IBB) is up 130%. That's more than triple the S&P 500's 13-year return of 43%.
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Friday, April 18, 2014
Build Biotech Wealth on Solid Platforms / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Potential. That's what every investor is looking for in a biotech investment. Grant Zeng of Zacks Small-Cap Research zeroes in on three primary factors when he looks at whether a particular company has the potential to succeed in the fast-moving life sciences industry. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Zeng dissects his process and names 10 companies that have survived his exacting examination.
The Life Sciences Report: As an analyst you focus on promising junior biotechs. What primary qualities do you look for in a company that you rate hold or outperform? And what do you think makes a junior biotech attractive to someone who might want to acquire it?
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Thursday, April 17, 2014
Hidden Australian Life Sciences Bio-tech Growth Stocks / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
To find undiscovered stories, investors must venture into unfamiliar territory. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, we go halfway around the world to speak with Scott Power of Morgans Financial Ltd. about companies under coverage in Australia. Power helps investors get comfortable with the idea of putting money into newfound names, and unveils four strong ideas that could invigorate adventuresome portfolios and investors hungering for excitement.
The Life Sciences Report: You are based in Brisbane, Australia, where your firm, Morgans Financial, is headquartered. All the names on your coverage list have traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). How would you compare investing in Australian biotech or medtech stocks to investing in those same types of stocks in the U.S. or Europe?
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Wednesday, April 16, 2014
There Is No Biotech Stock Bubble; Here's the Real Story / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: Some analysts feel that the biotech sector's recent tumble is evidence of the biotech bubble bursting.
But they're wrong; the market is simply in a period of adjustment.
The premise behind the bubble idea is that biotech companies as a group are overvalued, that their market caps aren't supported by performance. In other words, that their perceived value is all smoke and mirrors.
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Friday, April 11, 2014
Don't Miss the Boat on Big Biotech Catalysts: Keith Markey / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Keith Markey, veteran analyst and science director of Griffin Securities, tells us the 2014 pipeline calendar is positively glowing with important milestones that could ignite portfolios. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Markey talks about four powerful biotech names with exciting early- to late-stage development projects and one medical device and supply company with serious growth potential. Be warned—huge catalysts are on the horizon that investors won't want to miss.
Monday, April 07, 2014
Biotech Investing - Finding the Blockbuster That Will Make You Rich / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: In the pharmaceutical industry, a "blockbuster" is any drug that brings in $1 billion or more in revenue per year.
It's the prize that every biotech hopes to win - and every biotech investor hopes to cash in on.
So how do you spot one in the making? If the market suspects a drug candidate has blockbuster potential, catalysts (events like positive clinical study results and regulatory milestones) will give its manufacturer's share price a big, big boost.
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Friday, February 28, 2014
Investors Should Evaluate Biotech Stocks with Cynicism / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Biotech investing is a risky business, so investors should thoroughly examine a company's vital statistics before taking the plunge. That's the recommendation of Managing Director Debjit Chattopadhyay of Emerging Growth Equities, who brings a strict scientific discipline to stock analysis. As a former medical researcher, Chattopadhyay comes by his skepticism honestly, and in this interview with The Life Sciences Report, he brings five exciting—but critically scrutinized—growth names to investors' attention.
Friday, February 14, 2014
Big Pharma Will Find Good Hunting Among Early-Stage Biotechs Stocks / Commodities / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Dhesh Govender, manager of the life sciences portfolio for Cedar Lane Enterprises Inc., has the inside track when it comes to identifying the hottest biotech trends. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Govender explains why he thinks plenty of upside remains in the life sciences sector, and reveals trade secrets that every investor should consider when building a successful investment strategy.
Wednesday, February 12, 2014
Regenerative Medicine Finally Gets Some Respect / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Of the many themes that propelled the biotech sector to record returns in 2013, regenerative medicine and therapeutics targeting cancer were front and center. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Reni Benjamin, managing director and equity research analyst at H.C. Wainwright & Co., talks about two companies with impending catalysts that play on these themes, and offers his take on the prospects for the regenerative medicine sector going forward.
Friday, January 17, 2014
New Way to Make Big Money in Biotech Stocks Sector / Companies / BioTech
By: Money_Morning
Ernie Tremblay writes: Traditional pharmaceutical blockbusters like Pfizer's Lipitor treat millions of patients at relatively low cost. It's a high-volume business model that has kept the pharmaceutical industry afloat for a long, long time. But over the past decade, out of necessity, a new model has taken the industry by storm.
As big moneymakers, like Lipitor, reach the "patent cliff," their intellectual rights protection are evaporating, and generic drug makers are taking over their markets.
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Sunday, January 05, 2014
Transformative Human Biotech Revolution Forecast 2014 / Stock-Markets / BioTech
By: John_Mauldin
It is that time of the year when we peer into our darkened crystal balls in hopes of seeing portents of the future in the shadowy mists. This year I see three distinct wisps of vapor coalescing in the coming years. Each deserves its own treatment, so this year the annual forecast issue will in fact be three separate weekly pieces.
The final letter of the series will discuss what I see as potentially developing in the markets this year, but such prognostication has to be framed within the context of two larger and far more important streams. Next week we will examine the larger economic problems facing much of the developed world, and specifically we'll consider the Era of Unfulfilled Expectations. What happens when governments and central banks find it impossible to live up to the promises that they have made to their constituencies? Throw in a mix of frustrating demographics and disastrous economic policy choices, and you have a witch's brew of uncertainties.
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Thursday, December 26, 2013
Coming of Age: Experts Reflect on the Extraordinary Promise of the Cell Therapy Sector / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Without innovation and risk-taking, modern medicine would be missing staples of the physician's armamentarium: antibiotics, radiation therapies, vaccines. The idea of taking a tonic to cure what ails you is thousands of years old, but the science behind that tonic may be revolutionary. Enter stem cell technologies. Given the promise backing the science—and the sector's position on the cusp of breaking out—companies with cell therapies got plenty of attention from investment analysts and experts in 2013. Read what those experts, including George Zavoico of MLV & Co., Steve Brozak of WBB Securities, Jason Kolbert of the Maxim Group, and Kevin DeGeeter of Ladenberg Thalmann & Co., had to say about prospects for stem cell companies in this special retrospective article from The Life Sciences Report.
Friday, December 13, 2013
Biotech Growth Stocks Investing / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Get ready for a bonanza of biotech names. Managing Director and Equity Research Analyst Reni "Ren" Benjamin is a new arrival at H.C. Wainwright & Co., and he's busy doing diligence on a lot of stocks. Along with three Buy-rated biotechs he's already initiated coverage on, Benjamin brought The Life Sciences Report a bonus package of names that could fatten investors' portfolios. Backed by Benjamin's extensive industry knowledge, this long shopping list includes companies poised to make drug development history.
The Life Sciences Report: Do you currently have a major theme, Ren, or do you just go anywhere to find growth?
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Wednesday, December 04, 2013
Cutting Through the Biotech Stocks Hype / Companies / BioTech
By: Investment_U
Marc Lichtenfeld: When a woman, claiming to be the wife of a deceased general from Nigeria, writes to us saying she needs our help getting $10 million out of the country and in return we’ll get 20% of the money, most of us know that’s a load of bull.
But when the CEO of a publicly traded biotech company tells us his drug is the next great thing? How do we know if he’s being truthful, hopeful or just a plain scam artist?
Friday, October 25, 2013
The Biotechnology Platform Could Save Millions of Lives / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Patrick Cox, editor of the brand-new publication Transformational Technology Alert, is acutely aware of how transformational technology platforms can enable efficiencies and improve scale a la Moore's Law. A sweeping new synthetic vaccine platform that poses infinite possibilities for researchers and could produce novel preventive and therapeutic drugs is a quintessential example. In this interview with The Life Sciences Report, Cox delivers a single name that holds the potential to save lives on a mass scale, cheaply and efficiently, in both the developed and developing world—and deliver health and wealth to investors' portfolios as well.
Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Life-Extending Biotechnologies - Creating and Solving Our Economic Problems / Politics / BioTech
By: John_Mauldin
You know I've always been a dreamer (spent my life running 'round) And it's so hard to change (Can't seem to settle down) But the dreams I've seen lately Keep on turning out and burning out And turning out the same So put me on a highway And show me a sign And take it to the limit one more time -The Eagles, 1975
Straightforward solutions to complex problems: they're nice in theory, but they're rare. Think of the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, for instance. It tries to address the complex problems of expanding access to healthcare while simultaneously controlling its skyrocketing costs. But, sadly, there is no simple solution, and certainly not one that is not contentious in the extreme.
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Friday, October 04, 2013
Bio-tech Stocks - Not All Stem Cells Are Created Equal / Companies / BioTech
By: TLSReport
Biotech companies are fiercely competing to create the newest and best miracle drugs using stem cell technologies. How can an investor spot the potentially victorious outliers amid the chaos of rival scientific claims? The failure rate of new product development in the only recently understood cell space is terrifying, but in this interview with The Life Sciences Report, analyst Vernon Bernardino of MLV & Co. reveals his formula for evaluating the strongest contenders. Bernardino also names five companies with products that may succeed in this new and competitive space.
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Genetically Modified Babies / Politics / BioTech
By: Global_Research
Rady Ananda writes: In October 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the human egg, which changes will be passed on generationally. The United Kingdom is also moving to allow GM babies.
Human gene therapy has been ongoing since 1990, but most of that involved non-heritable genes, called somatic (non-sex cell) gene therapy. Somatic modifications only affect the individual and are not passed on, and so do not affect the human genome.