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Q: If their first drug, plasminogen gets approval along with a pediatric voucher where do you see the share price. Is it odd that the share price presently is abysmal dropping 30% in a month with the decision due by the FDA no later than mid April. Lastly would you expect a lot of institutional buying for a good run after approval as the risk of the company being viable will be alleviated.
Read Answer Asked by Steve on March 02, 2018
Q: XNET, CGNX, OLED - These stocks are wake up in the morning stocks to find them down between 10 and 20%. They continue to underperform the market but they all looked wonderful when I bought them. Some I became aware of on BNN and some on your question and answer section - people writing in about them. I was wondering about 2 stocks that have looked great for quite some time being - NTLA and MYOK - your opinion: if I were to sell one of the underperformers listed above (which one above would you suggest) and replace it with NTLA or MYOK which one would you pick or do you have something better to replace it with? I know you do not deal with the US but hopefully you will start a US version up like you started an ETF letter up as a lot of people are always asking about US stocks. Thank you, Dennis
Read Answer Asked by Dennis on March 01, 2018
Q: I hold AMGN and see from your recent responses that it's a 5i favorite. The metrics do not appear to justify your support, so I wonder if I am looking at the wrong data. PEG is sky high (over 4); forward P/E is almost 14 ; ROE is only 6.6. The data above is from a premium site which differs from the Yahoo Finance site which shows forward P/E at 13.09 and PEG at 3.3 with ROE at only 7.18. Net margins do look healthy but I cannot tell from 3 sites I checked whether net margin % data is fwd looking or refers to historical.

Although AMGN appears to have been a dividend grower (not a dividend aristocrat that I know of ) , it’s dividend payout is very high at 171%.

Yet there must be something about AMGN that you like a lot.... perhaps something not shown on reported data. Is it AMGN's pipeline? Projected cash flow? I would prefer not to sell my holding until I can understand what it is about AMGN that you like so much. I would appreciate your insight very much (am not looking so much for basic or raw numbers available on popular sites---but I really would appreciate your thoughts, thanks).
Read Answer Asked by Adam on February 21, 2018
Q: ATE is set to release final Phase 2b results of their lead drug ATB-346, in 4weeks. I'm curious if you have any relevant information on the outlook of this drug and the company overall? I understand GUD has funds deployed here. And my main question is if the trial results show less GI tract bleeding (the issue with prolonged doses of Naproxen) and better efficacy results than Aleve then how could the drug or company's valuation be estimated? Sales numbers for Bayer's Aleve that could be extrapolated? thanks
Read Answer Asked by Gordon on February 16, 2018
Q: SNY (not in your database) recently reported a poor quarter and so-so guidance. On the other hand, the P/E is now less than 12x, the dividend is substantial, and the pipeline should be broad enough to protect against single-drug risk. My sense is that it's long-term-investable, but less attractive than other beaten-down pharma blue-chips (say, LLY); your opinion?
Read Answer Asked by John on February 16, 2018
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