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Cryoport: The Acquisition of CRYOPDP Looks to Be a Major Coup (CYRX, $36.51, Buy)

Overview Cryoport announced the acquisition of  the French  company, CRYOPDP on Thursday, August 20, 2020. The stock market gave the acquisition a thumbs up as the stock closed at $38.82, up 4.7% on the Friday. Today, the stock has given up part of this gain. My initial reaction (in line with the market) is that […]

Cryoport Has Staggering Growth Potential but Is the Stock Overpriced (CYRX, $33.51, Buy)

Investment Thesis Since the market low on March 23, Cryoport’s stock has increased from a low of $14.58 to a current price of $33.51, a 230% increase. The Company is selling at a market capitalization of $1.3 billion which is 31 times my estimate of 2020 revenue estimate of $41 million and 22 times projected […]

Why Bother with Antares? (ATRS, Buy, $2.86)

Investment Perspective Periodically, I get a comment from one subscriber regarding Antares to the effect of why are you bothering with this dog. Over the last five years, the stock hit a low of $0.95 on January 10, 2016 and a high of $4.89 on December 22, 2019. However, it mostly has traded in a […]

Mesoblast, Athersys, Cryoport, ARDS and COVID-19.

Today’s issue of the Wall Street Journal carries an opinion piece entitled “The Treatment That Could Crush Covid”. The article hypothesizes that living cells which the author calls medicinal signaling cells promise to be an effective treatment for Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). ARDS is a condition that results from an overreaction of the immune […]

Northwest Biotherapeutics: (NWBO, Buy, $0.35) Management Issues Guidance That DCVax-L Phase 3 Trial Results Will Be Released Sometime After Labor Day

Investment Overview: Highly Asymmetric Outlook Northwest Biotherapeutics has guided that it will report results of the phase 3 trial of DCVax-L in newly diagnosed glioblastoma (GBM) sometime after Labor Day. This results in a highly asymmetric outlook for the stock price. In this report, I present a plausible hypothesis that over the next year the […]

Northwest Biotherapeutics: We Are Just Several Weeks from Release of Topline Data in Phase 3 Trial of DCVax-L in Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Multiforme (NWBO, $0.36, Buy)

Investment Overview In the 1Q, 2020; 10-Q regulatory release on June 24, there was a section that went into some detail on the pending release of topline data from the phase 3 trial of DCVax-L in newly diagnosed glioblastoma. It describes how Covid created major problems in compiling data from the phase 3 trial that […]

An Overview of Companies with a Major Presence in CAR-T Research

Investment Opportunity One of the areas that I want to focus my investment research on is CAR-T therapy. I believe that this is one of the most significant opportunities for new drug development over the coming decades and will produce some outstanding investment opportunities. The first two CAR-T drugs, Novartis’ Kymriah and Gilead’s Yescarta, were […]

Looking at Market Capitalizations as an Investment Tool for Biopharma Companies

Purpose of Report This report looks at the market capitalizations of 6 big pharma companies, 14 large biotechs, 24 mid-size commercial stage biotechs and 64 pre-commercial biotechs. It provides a picture of how the market values a broad range of biopharma companies at very different levels of maturity. It gives an insight into how the […]

A New Note on Cytokinetics with a Focus on Omecamtiv

Cytokinetics and its partner Amgen have guided that topline data from the GALACTIC-HF phase 3 trial of omecamtiv in advanced heart failure will be released in 4Q, 2020. The promise of omecamtiv has been the driving force for my long standing buy recommendation of Cytokinetics and is the overwhelming factor driving the current stock price. […]

Cytokinetics (CYTK, Buy, $20.97) Omecamtiv Nears the Finish Line; Topline Data Expected in 4Q, 2020 with Launch Possible in 2021

Overview Cytokinetics was founded 22 years ago and has not deviated from its initial business model that is based on an understanding of muscle activation and inhibition in cardiac and skeletal muscle. Finally, the company may be poised for the commercial introduction of its lead drug, omecamtiv. Even by biotechnology standards, the development of omecamtiv […]