Pfizer Sneaks By Earnings Estimates (PFE, MRK)
Pfizer, Inc. (NYSE: PFE) looks good on the surface on its earnings report for the fourth quarter, but the company’s guidance may be getting in the way a bit. The drug giant turned in…
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The Federal Trade Commission is suing to block the merger between Omnicare, Inc. (NYSE: OCR) and Pharmerica Corporation (NYSE: PMC), where Omnicare is seeking to acquire the rival pharmacy provider PharMerica…. It makes you wonder how…
High-Premium Biotech M&A Continues (AMGN, CELG, MITI, IBB)
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: MITI), a cancer drug…
Risks Abound In Express Scripts & Medco Merger (MHS, ESRX, T, CHSI, MNA)
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 more long and drawn…
Pharma Value Beyond The Patent Expiration Cliff (PFE, MRK, BMY, TEVA, AMGN, GSK)
The tide of patent expirations that is washing over big pharmaceutical houses is cresting now and investors have begun looking forward to how these companies will deal with some sharp blows to their revenues…
The $1,000 Genome Finally Arrives (LIFE)
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 from Life Technologies that…
It Takes a Recession to Slow U.S. Health Care Cost Increases
It takes a recession to slow what has normally been runaway U.S. health care costs. The trend may be part of a road map to keep costs down. These costs have risen at close to double…
Short Sellers Help Push Dendreon Higher
Dendreon (NASDAQ: DNDN) soared almost 40% in value, or $3.02 a share, in active trading on Thursday after announcing that fourth-quarter revenue from its Provenge prostate-cancer vaccine would exceed earlier forecasts. Looking to 2012,…
How Dendreon’s Good News Could Spread Around Biotech (DNDN, HGSI, IBB, FBT)
Dendreon Corporation (NASDAQ: DNDN) is living up to something we showed late in December. It was one of the Top Biotech Upside Stocks for 2012 by Wall Street Analysts. Now, the question is whether…
Tracking Dividends in Biotech: Who Follows Amgen in Payouts? (AMGN, PFE, MRK, BIIB, CELG, ALXN, CBST, PDLI, REGN, VRTX)
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 Pfizer Inc. (NYSE: PFE)…
Top Biotech Stock Picks For 2012 (ARIA, DNDN, GILD, HGSI, ILMN, INCY, JAZZ, LIFE, THRX, IBB, XBI)
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 year come from this…
Small Caps With Over 50% Stock Upside in 2012 (PNK, CDXS, VVUS, SCMR)
Over the last week we have been reviewing some of the “Small Cap Stocking Stuffers” that features the top small cap ideas for 2012 from Credit Suisse. After reviewing the list, it turned out…
Top Med-Tech Stock Picks for 2012 (BSX, ISRG, STJ)
Many research firms have been coming up with their best ideas lists for 2012. Today brought a list of top picks in the medical technology and medical devices sector from Zacks Investment Research. We…
ARIAD Secures Much-Needed Capital for Trials, Commercialization, and Growth (ARIA)
ARIAD Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARIA) is raising cash to help support the commercialization of ponatinib in patients with resistant or intolerant CML and additional clinical development of its investigational targeted cancer medicines. All of…
SonoSite, Some Rumored Mergers Come True (SONO)
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. (NASDAQ: SONO). The healthcare…