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Investment Thesis At the time of launch of Surfaxin on November 8, 2013 Discovery Laboratory’s (DSCO) stock was selling at $2.00. By February 2014, it had climbed to $2.65, but has since slid to $1.60. This weakness was due to disappointment with the launch. The ever growing difficulty in gaining quick Pharmacy and Therapeutics (P&T) […]

Launch of Surfaxin The launch of Surfaxin has begun and initial results were below expectations causing the Company a few months ago to withdraw guidance of $8 to $10 million of sales in 2014. This along with the general weakness in emerging biotechnology stocks has caused weakness in the stock. New guidance will probably be […]

Introduction and Overview This note updates recent progress of the company along with my detailed investment outlook which I break into four different stages of time. The launch of Surfaxin has begun and initial results were below expectations causing the Company to withdraw guidance of $8 to $10 million of sales in 2014. New guidance […]

This Has Been a Tough Correction The recent sharp market correction and rotation out of growth stocks like biotechnology and technology has had a major impact on the small biotechnology names that I specialize in. The correction has been stomach churning for me even though I have been through this many times before. I am […]

What SmithOnStocks Is All About It is traditional at the start of the year to go over stock picks for the coming year. It also is the time of the annual biotech “love in” in San Francisco, which I recently attended and that attracts some 30,000 biotech executives, analysts, venture capitalists and investors. I estimate […]

I have just published the first of a series of reports on Discovery Laboratories. Instead of publishing an extensive report (which I have actually written), I thought that I would publish smaller excerpts that may be easier to digest. I am starting with the most important part that goes through my thinking on why the […]

�� Purpose of This Report This is the first of a series of reports on Discovery Laboratories. Instead of publishing an extensive report (which I have actually written), I thought that I would publish smaller excerpts that may be easier to digest. I am starting with the most important part that goes through my thinking […]

Investment Thesis I believe that the recent stock offering by Discovery Laboratories (DSCO) removes the financing overhang that has been holding the stock back. The Company now has enough cash to see it through two years of the Surfaxin launch, phase IIa data on Aerosurf in mid-2014, phase IIb data on Aerosurf in mid-2015 and […]

Surfaxin is Finally Cleared for Commercialization in the US The long saga for Discovery Laboratories (DSCO) that began with the first filing of an NDA for Surfaxin in April of 2004 has finally come to an end as the FDA has cleared Surfaxin for marketing. The NDA was actually approved in March 0f 2012, but […]

Overview of This Week’s Report This week I published a major report on Alimera Sciences and pSivida which led to my recommendation of pSivida. I also comment on Neuralstem’s press release on a rat study modeling the use of NSI-566 neural stem cells in an acute spinal cord injury which showed some encouraging data. The […]