Teva Tries NASDAQ & NYSE Exchange Hat Trick (TEVA)

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By Jon C. Ogg Updated Published

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This is obnoxious when companies do this.  Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. (NASDAQ: TEVA) is trying the hat trick where it changes exchange listings.  Now the company plans to transfer the ADR listing to the New York Stock Exchange from the NASDAQ Global Select Market (NASDAQ).

Another pet peeve is when NYSE listed shares have 4-letter tickers and/or when NASDAQ listings have 3-letter tickers.  The stock will begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 30, 2012 under its current stock symbol “TEVA.”

Teva’s real problem is that its stock has been stuck, and now the question is whether the value today represents just the value of the generics business.  It is highly unlikely that the exchange listing has had anything to do with this.  At $43.24 the market value is roughly $38 billion.  This one has been a dud over the last year and the 52-week trading range is $35.00 to $51.30 and analysts have a consensus price target objective of $52.75.

JON C. OGG

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Jon Ogg has been a financial news analyst since 1997. Mr. Ogg set up one of the first audio squawk box services for traders called TTN, which he sold in 2003. He has previously worked as a licensed broker to some of the top U.S. and E.U. financial institutions, managed capital, and has raised private capital at the seed and venture stage. He has lived in Copenhagen, Denmark, as well as New York and Chicago, and he now lives in Houston, Texas. Jon received a Bachelor of Business Administration in finance at University of Houston in 1992. www.247wallst.com.

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