There’s perhaps no greater catalyst for shares of a biotech company than FDA approval of one of its product candidates. Conversely, an unfavorable ruling by the FDA can send shares of a biotech firm plummeting. With the FDA having approved 40 novel drugs so far this year (compared to 27 by this same time last year), today’s article takes a…
What’s behind biotech’s recent underperformance? One important factor may be the impending presidential election – and as one exchange-traded fund strategist cited in today’s article explains, “…if history repeats, this pullback may represent an attractive buying opportunity.” What does the history of biotech’s performance leading up to and following presidential elections suggest about buying the biotech dip? CLICK HERE.
One of the biotech stocks highlighted in today’s article is a well-established, large-cap name. The other is a far less established, small-cap player with no products currently on the market. What the two have in common, according to the author, is that both “have made significant breakthroughs — and could provide market-beating returns for many years to come as a…
Joining the ever-expanding list of COVID-19 stocks is this biotech that has filed an application with the FDA for initiation of Phase 2/Phase 3 clinical trials for its experimental monoclonal antibody therapy for the disease. The safety and tolerability of the therapy has already been demonstrated and, as today’s article explains, the company believes that its modulating effect “could reduce…
Given the fact that it has already demonstrated remarkable performance without even having any products with regulatory approval for sale, just where could biotech CRISPR Therapeutics, with its focus on the treatment of serious diseases using its proprietary CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing platform, be five years from now? For more on the promise of this firm’s pipeline projects, CLICK HERE.
While most of the attention in the biotech sector is focused on potential COVID-19 treatments or vaccines, the author of today’s article argues that there’s “a better way to play the sector, which is via companies whose roles in the daily grind of drug manufacturing and research will remain crucial regardless of the ups and downs of any particular acute…
Each of these three small-cap biotech stocks surged more than 100% last week. The author of today’s article notes that “It isn’t unusual to see small-cap biotechs with nine-figure market caps continue to make further gains, but they don’t always continue rising.” So which of these three small-cap biotechs might be at the beginning of a much larger move higher?…