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The Undeniable Reason Behind Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc.'s 43% Rally in November
Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: VRX), an embattled drugmaker that had primarily grown by acquisitions and drug-price hikes in recent years, galloped higher by 43% in November, according....
5 Key Things to Know About This Leading Marijuana Stock's Future
You can count the number of pure-play marijuana stocks with a market cap of around $3 billion on one hand -- and have several fingers left over. GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH) ranks as one of....
Why Heron Therapeutics Stock Is Crashing Today
Heron Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HRTX), a commercial-stage biotech developing medicines to address unmet medical needs, saw its shares drop by as much as 11.8% today on over five times the average....
Why Snap, Regal Entertainment Group, and Revance Therapeutics Jumped Today
Tuesday was a down day for most of the stock market, with major benchmarks finishing with modest losses of half a percent or less. The NYSE Composite pulled back from the record highs it reached....
Why Alexion Pharmacteuicals Sank 8.9% in November
Shares of Alexion Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ALXN), a commercial-stage biotech focused on rare diseases, fell 9% in November, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence. There doesn't....
Here's Why Collegium Pharmaceutical Rose as Much as 23.5% Today
Shares of specialty pharmaceutical developer Collegium Pharmaceutical (NASDAQ: COLL) rose over 23% today after the company announced that it will acquire the pain drug Nucynta from Depomed....
Why Revance Therapeutics Is Soaring Today
In response to the company's strong results from two pivotal phase 3 trials, shares of Revance Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RVNC), a clinical-stage biotech focused on aesthetics, rose 36% as of 11:10....
MorphoSys: Partner erhält Medikamenten-Zulassung in Kanada
Der MorphoSys-Lizenzpartner Janssen hat in Kanada die Zulassung zur Behandlung erwachsener Patienten mit moderater bis schwerer Form von Schuppenflechte mit dem Medikament Tremfya erhalten. Das....
Why Nektar Therapeutics Shares Delivered a Stupendous 124% in November
After the company updated the timeline for filing its pain-relieving drug for approval from the Food and Drug Administration, and presented early-stage study results for its solid-tumor cancer....
Why Ra Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Got Hammered Today
Ra Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: RARX) characterized its interim phase 2 data testing RA101495 SC in patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria (PNH) as "positive," but the market sees it....
Why Endocyte, Inc. Stock Briefly Spiked Today
Shares of the clinical-stage biotech Endocyte (NASDAQ: ECYT) briefly rose by as much as 16% Monday on more than double the average daily volume. The catalyst? Investors appear to have noticed a....
1 High-Risk Penny Stock That May Be Worth Buying
Penny stocks, or stocks with a sub-$5 share price, generally aren't my cup of tea. These types of companies tend to be far too risky to make them worthy of serious investment consideration. The....
3 Stocks That Quadrupled
The stock market continues to put on a clinic about how to stomp all over expectations. The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 25% this year and the S&P 500 is 20% higher, but stack them up....
Where Will Exact Sciences Corporation Be in 5 Years?
Roughly 18 months ago, Exact Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) was in rough shape. Cash was getting tight as the company spent aggressively to commercialize its new colon cancer test. Add in some troubling....
3 Reasons Pfizer Should Buy Celgene in 2018
You might think it's a crazy idea. Maybe it is a crazy idea. But sometimes crazy ideas are the ones that wind up being the best. So here it is: Pfizer (NYSE: PFE) should buy Celgene (NASDAQ: CELG)....
3 Highest Growth Stocks in the Market Today
I'm constantly scanning the market for stocks that promise hyper growth in the years ahead. One tool that I use to find these high growth companies is Finviz. With that in mind, I recently ran a....
Market-Moving News Is on Tap for Seattle Genetics
Seattle Genetics (NASDAQ: SGEN) Adcetris is already a successful drug with global sales of about $600 million, but sales could climb even higher if the Food and Drug Administration approves its....
3 Top Stocks Under $5
Although market cap is a more important metric to consider when determining the future value of a company's share price, it's not uncommon for investors to think that a lower stock price....
Will 2018 Be Johnson & Johnson's Best Year Yet?
There are still several weeks left in the year, but Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) appears to be on course to generate its second-highest stock performance over the last decade in 2017. A....
Here's How Acadia Pharmaceuticals Crushed It in 2017
About 1 million patients in the U.S. suffer from Parkinson's disease. Unfortunately, nearly 40% of them will experience hallucinations and delusions in their daily life, which is a disease state....
Where Will Organovo Holdings, Inc. Be in 5 Years?
This has been a year Organovo Holdings Inc. (NASDAQ: ONVO) investors would like to forget. Revenue growth has come to a halt, inciting the market to lop off roughly half of the company's market....
5 Top Biotech Stocks to Buy Now
Over the last five years, biotech stocks have trounced the performance of the S&P 500. One major reason why is the number of new drugs launched by biotech companies. More diseases than ever....
Is a Dividend Cut Coming From GlaxoSmithKline plc?
One of the attractions of investing in British drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline plc (NYSE: GSK) is its generous dividend yield, which lately has hovered at just a bit less than 6%. A yield that's so far....
The FDA Ushers In a New Era in Cancer Treatment
On Thursday, Foundation Medicine (NASDAQ: FMI) won a green light for its comprehensive DNA test, FoundationOne CDx. The approval clears the way for healthcare providers to quickly determine what....
This Marijuana Stock Is Poised for a Breakout Year in 2018 -- Here's What You'll Want to Know About It
Admittedly, 2017 so far has kind of been a ho-hum year for former high-flying marijuana stock GW Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: GWPH). For the most part, investors have just been waiting for the next....