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High-Premium Biotech M&A Continues (AMGN, CELG, MITI, IBB)

Posted: January 26, 2012 at 5:08 pm

Thursday brought yet more merger and acquisition news in the ongoing buyout trends in the biotech sector.  Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) announced that it is going to acquire Micromet, Inc. (NASDAQ: ...
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J&J… When Beating Earnings Hits A Headwind (JNJ)

Posted: January 24, 2012 at 8:38 am

Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) managed to marginally beat earnings expectations this Tuesday morning.  This is the first of the consumer products and medical products companies to report, so this ...
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Risks Abound In Express Scripts & Medco Merger (MHS, ESRX, T, CHSI, MNA)

Posted: January 19, 2012 at 3:04 pm

The Medco Health Solutions Inc. (NYSE: MHS) and Express Scripts Inc. (NASDAQ: ESRX) merger saga is one which may go down in the financial history books for one of the ...
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The $1,000 Genome Finally Arrives (LIFE)

Posted: January 10, 2012 at 11:47 am

Personalized medicine is coming... if you can afford it.  The quest for the $1,000 genomic map has been a race and it appears to be closer and closer.  News is out ...
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Tracking Dividends in Biotech: Who Follows Amgen in Payouts? (AMGN, PFE, MRK, BIIB, CELG, ALXN, CBST, PDLI, REGN, VRTX)

Posted: January 4, 2012 at 8:01 am

For several years it has been the case that Amgen Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN) was considered a biotech though it had at least some of the same problems of Big Pharma players like ...
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Top Biotech Stock Picks For 2012 (ARIA, DNDN, GILD, HGSI, ILMN, INCY, JAZZ, LIFE, THRX, IBB, XBI)

Posted: December 28, 2011 at 7:01 am

The biotech sector has seen its share of ups and downs in 2011 and prior years.  It is almost always the case that some of the top performing stocks each ...
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SonoSite, Some Rumored Mergers Come True (SONO)

Posted: December 15, 2011 at 7:58 am

Some rumors surrounding the world of mergers and acquisitions actually do manage to come true.  The newest deal to hit the tape is an acquisition by FUJIFILM Holdings Corporation of SonoSite, Inc. ...
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Get Ready for a Pfizer Dividend Hike… A Holiday Gift From Big Pharma (PFE, MRK, WPI, TEVA)

Posted: December 8, 2011 at 11:14 am

We recently gave a full review of the DJIA components we expect to raise their dividend payouts in the weeks and months ahead.  Among those we expect to raise the ...
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Winners as Pfizer Loses Lipitor Patent (PFE, TEVA, MYL, WPI)

Posted: November 29, 2011 at 11:28 am

Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE) has a big day ahead of it.  While it has been known for years, it is a massive date: Lipitor goes off-patent and will have generic ...
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Probing for Value in Big Pharmaceutical Stocks (JNJ, PFE, AZN, BMY, MRK)

Posted: November 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm

It now costs about $1 billion to get a new drug to market, or, if a company is unlucky, $1 billion to fail to get the drug to market. Like ...
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Walmart Denies Plans for Health Care Network, Even as Clinics Thrive

Posted: November 10, 2011 at 6:28 am

Walmart (NYSE: WMT) said that the press was mistaken when several media reported the world’s largest retailer would create a national medical clinic system within its stores. The denial hardly matters. ...
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Healthways: The Implosion of the Day (HWAY, CI)

Posted: October 25, 2011 at 8:55 am

Healthways Inc. (NASDAQ: HWAY) could be named "The Implosion Stock of the Day."  Revenues rose 3.3% from a year earlier to $176.2 million, but that sequential earnings gain is actually more ...
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Endless Mergers… More to Come! (CBST, ADLR, HS, CI, CVH, MAT, RNOW, ORCL, SLE, SJM, ANDS, NYX)

Posted: October 24, 2011 at 10:24 am

Monday is called "Merger Monday" for a reason and this morning is a classic example of its namesake.  We have seen multiple deals and news outstanding on pending deals.  We ...
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America’s Recession-Proof Companies

Posted: October 6, 2011 at 7:27 pm

With fears of a new economic downturn, investors have become concerned about sales and profits of large companies. But there are companies that have already proven themselves in the recent ...
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The 7 Best Performing Stocks of 2011 (AAPL, GENE, JVA, VRUS, GMCR, SIMO, MAKO, RIC)

Posted: September 20, 2011 at 10:20 am

2011 has not exactly turned out the way many market pundits expected at the start of the year. The economy has slowed down to near-recession levels, the flight to safety ...
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