After an incredible run, investors are finally seeing some pain in the biotech and broader health care sector. Major biotechnology indexes were off over 4% in Wednesday trading, while the short term trend has not been favorable either.Some investors may now think that the bubble has burst for the high growth biotech sector, but there are actually still a few […]
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Mar. 25, 2015, 2:55 PM
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Flickr/Gonzalo IzaBiotech investors have been here before.Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%. And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell […]
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Flickr/Gonzalo IzaBiotech investors have been here before.Stocks are lower on Wednesday and the high-flying biotech sector is leading the way down, with the iShares ETF that tracks the sector falling more than 3%. And as the sector has weakened over the last several days, this sell off is starting to look at lot like the sell […]
The financial markets have been on the rise for the past six years. That can only mean that doom is around the corner. What financial bubble is waiting to pop, and destroy us? Today: biotech stocks.What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, and When Will it Pop? What Is the Next Bubble, […]
It’s been an eventful week on the pipeline front with companies like Biogen (BIIB – Analyst Report), Prothena (PRTA – Snapshot Report) and Vertex (VRTX – Analyst Report) coming out with data. Meanwhile, Gilead (GILD – Analyst Report) was back in the news once again due to its hepatitis C virus (HCV) franchise.Recap of the Week’s Most Important Stories1. Hopes […]
Everyone likes a great deal, and there’s no biotech stock I’d love to see go on sale more than Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG).Celgene’s blockbuster drugs, industry-leading profitability, and rock-solid balance sheet put it among the elite companies in the business. As a result, the company hasn’t given investors too many chances to buy its shares at a bargain price. But if […]
Here’s how to protect your profits in biotech: Trader
Susquehanna’s Stacey Gilbert thinks biotech could be due for a pullback. She lays out an options strategy to protect your biotech holdings.
It’s been a record-breaking run for biotech stocks, with the Nasdaq Biotech ETF, the IBB, up 18 percent this year alone and nearly 300 percent in the past five years. But […]
Biotech stocks have been on fire in 2015. In the Biotech & Pharmaceuticals sector of the Russell 2000 Growth Index, there are over sixty stocks up by more than 30% this year. More than thirty stocks are up greater than 50% while six have more than doubled.The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB) is already up more than 20% less than 3 […]
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Mar. 23, 2015, 2:21 PM
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Biotech stocks are on fire.That’s given some analysts flashbacks of 2000, when tech valuations were red hot, but it didn’t end well because they crashed.Michael Batnick over at The Irrelevant Investor posted this chart Monday that compares the rally in tech stocks then to biotechs in recent years.He describes the biotech rally:”In the 168 weeks since […]
The multiyear run in major biotech stocks has not let up in 2015. Most of the large and mid-cap stocks in the industry are higher, but the smaller and lesser known names have also tracked them higher. In fact, several biotechs are up 200% or more so far in 2015.24/7 Wall St. ran a screen for the top five biotech […]
