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3 Stocks to Buy and Hold for Decades
Trading in and out of stocks may be exciting, but it's no way to build wealth. Buying shares of high-quality companies and holding on for the long haul is a far better alternative.We asked three....
Halozyme, Inovalon, and Teva Soared This Week: Can They Go Higher?
Many healthcare stocks muddled along over the past week. That wasn't the case, though, for three stocks of companies operating in very different parts of the healthcare spectrum.Shares of Halozyme....
Is ImmunoGen Running Out of Steam, or Taking a Breather?
There's good news and bad news for ImmunoGen (NASDAQ: IMGN) shareholders. The good news is that the biotech stock is up more than 230% so far in 2017. The bad news? Shares have dropped nearly 20%....
Which of These 5 Will Be the Best-Selling Drug Worldwide in 2020?
The global pharmaceutical industry is a giant, in case you didn't already know it. According to a 2016 report from the International Trade Administration (ITA), global sales of pharmaceuticals are....
The Smartest Move Johnson & Johnson Has Made All Year
Healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson (NYSE: JNJ) is what you might call a stalwart in the portfolios of risk-averse, income-seeking long-term investors. It's about as rock-solid as they....
Why Abeona Therapeutics Inc Stock Jumped Higher Today
Shares of Abeona Therapeutics (NASDAQ: ABEO) are up 18% as of 2:50 p.m. EDT after an analyst from RBC Capital initiated coverage of the gene therapy company with an outperform rating and assigned....
Here's What Caused Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals' Stock to Spike Today
After Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: ARWR) announced Thursday that it has crafted a new drug development platform, and created a handful of candidate compounds, shares of the clinical-stage....
Of the 14 Largest Marijuana Stocks, Only These 2 Are Down Over the Past Year
The stock market has been on a tear since hitting a trough in March 2009, but in recent years it's marijuana stocks that have headed to the front of the class, so to speak. Back in June, we looked....
3 Biotech Stocks I'd Buy Right Now
It's been a banner year so far for biotech, but a handful of stocks have been travelling in the opposite direction of the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology index. The industry-tracking index has risen....
Pfizer Punches Back at Johnson & Johnson in Prostate Cancer
After winning Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use in castration-resistant metastatic prostate cancer in 2012, Pfizer's (NYSE: PFE) Xtandi quickly gained ground on Johnson &....
3 Reasons Why Gilead Sciences Stock Is a Buy Now
Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD) is a biotech behemoth, but its shares have fallen on tough times because hepatitis C sales are slipping. While headwinds in hepatitis C remain, the company's recent....
Who Will Win the Kidney Cancer Battle Between Bristol-Myers Squibb and Exelixis?
A head-to-head competition for market share in the renal cell carcinoma (RCC) market appears to be about to intensify. In one corner is Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY). With a market cap of over....
How Much Does It Really Cost to Develop a Cancer Drug?
Cancer drugs can cost hundreds of thousands of dollars and increasing complexity suggests that prices for these drugs are going higher. For instance, Novartis (NYSE: NVS) won approval for a new....
3 Dividend Healthcare Stocks
One great reason to consider buying healthcare stocks is that demand for their products tends to remain stable in good times and bad. After all, no one gets to choose when they get sick. That....
Why Halozyme Therapeutics, Tenet Healthcare, and AMC Entertainment Holdings Jumped Today
The stock market was once again mixed on Thursday, with the Dow Jones Industrials gaining ground to set a record high for the third session in a row even as other major benchmarks lagged behind.....
Why Opko Health, Avis Budget Group, and Adomani Slumped Today
Thursday was another relatively quiet day for the stock market, and major benchmarks finished on either side of the unchanged mark by the end of the trading session. The Dow Jones Industrials hit....
Exelixis, Inc. and Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. Gear Up for Round 2 of the Kidney Cancer Drug Battle Royale
Take your seats, investors: The battle in first-line advanced renal cell carcinoma, the most common type of kidney cancer, is about to begin.In one corner, weighing in at a market cap of $8....
Why Lexicon Pharmaceuticals Is Down 11% Today
After Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: LXRX) announced yesterday the publication of phase 3 results for its lead diabetes drug, sotagliflozin, in the New England Journal of Medicine, its shares....
Here's Why Glaukos Corp. Stock Is Stumbling Today
Shares of Glaukos Corp. (NYSE: GKOS), a medical device manufacturer with an eye on glaucoma, are slipping today. Just ahead of the company's investors day meeting, management made some adjustments....
Here's Why Halozyme Therapeutics, Inc. Is Soaring Today
Shares of Halozyme Therapeutics (NASDAQ: HALO), a small-cap biotech focused on creating products that help other drugs work more effectively, rose by 16% as of 10:45 a.m. EDT on Thursday.....
How Safe Is Abbott Labs' Dividend?
Abbott Laboratories (NYSE: ABT) has a long history of serving the healthcare community with its products. For much of its history, Abbott was a true healthcare conglomerate, producing both....
Here's Why the Best Is Yet to Come for Opko Health Inc.
There's not a whole lot that looks good for Opko Health Inc. (NASDAQ: OPK) right now. The stock has dropped more than 30% so far in 2017. Several large institutional investors have reduced their....
Investors' Biggest Worry About GW Pharmaceuticals Could Be the Biotech's Ace in the Hole
GW Pharmaceuticals' (NASDAQ: GWPH) stock soared more than 60% last year. So far in 2017, though, shares of the cannabinoid-focused biotech are down rather than up. One possible reason behind GW....
3 Biotech Stocks That Have Already Quadrupled in 2017
It's been a good year for biotech stocks, the iShares Nasdaq Biotechnology index has risen about 26% this year but a handful of companies make the industry tracking index's success seem trivial.....
Gilead Sciences, Inc.'s Best Investment of 2017 (Hint: It Wasn't Kite Pharmaceuticals)
Gilead Sciences' (NASDAQ: GILD) share repurchases last year could only be classified as horrible: The company bought back shares between $83.33 and $100 per share as the stock dropped....