Expert Financial Analysis and Reporting

Cryoport reported a very strong quarter as sales increased by 83%. The key biopharma segment increased sales by 81%. This was led by a 326% increase in sales stemming from support of the commercial CAR-T products, Kymriah and Yescarta. Some $600,000 of incremental sales were recorded from the acquisition of Cryogene which closed on May […]

Overview The investment story for Portola is virtually 100% based on the sales ramp for Andexxa. Skepticism and/ or uncertainty have been running high because new drug product launches in general are slow and disappointing and this is particularly true for hospital products like Andexxa. I have been taken aback at the poor stock performance. […]

Introduction I have heard encouraging comments on my recently announced approach of doing shorter, less pedantic reports on new companies. This is so much so that I am extending this approach to companies that I have actively covered for some time and in this case Antares Pharma. For a Martian with no knowledge of Antares, […]

My coverage strategy has been to identify stocks that I believed to be buys and initiate coverage with an in-depth report to be followed by updates. This is the classic Wall Street approach that was drilled into my psyche for nearly 35 years. The downside is that it takes a long time to research a […]

Cryoport will report 2Q, 2019 results on August 8, 2019 at 5:00 PM EST. One area of keen interest for investors will be sales relating to the support of the CAR-T products-Gilead’s Yescarta and Novartis’ Kymriah. Gilead has reported that Yescarta sales in 2Q, 2019 were $120 million which compares to my last published estimate […]

Upfront Caveat When I launched my research on stock manipulation and the prominent role played by illegal naked shorting, I believed that I had a fair understanding of the subject and could knock out comprehensive research in just a few blogs. However, as I dug in I was taken aback at how complex and widespread […]

Investment Overview Selling something you don’t own seems a pretty alien concept to me. I struggle to find any business models for which this is a key strategy. The exception is shorting of stocks and other securities which is a huge business on Wall Street that is carried on by many hedge funds and aided […]

Investment Thesis The cornerstone of my positive investment thesis for Antares is Xyosted, which was fully launched in January 2019. While it is early, I believe that the prescription trends seen over the last six months strongly indicate that the launch will be a success. In this report, I explain the methodology, I used to […]

You Really Don’t Own the Shares that Appear in Your Brokerage Account; They Belong to Cede Most investors when they buy a publicly traded stock believe that they own a part of some company. They think that somewhere there is a stock certificate or some indication of ownership that has their name on it, but […]

Overview of Equity Offering Cryoport quickly and very successfully executed an equity offering after the close on June 19, 2019. It sold 3,750,000 shares at a price to investors of $17.00 per share. This was at a discount of about 9% from the closing price of $18.62. After underwriting discounts, Cryoport received $59.80 million which […]