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Celgene CEO: Strong Q1 Led To Improved Full-Year Guidance
Friday, May 4, 2018 - 2:35pm | 417Biopharma Celgene Corporation (NASDAQ: CELG) reported first-quarter earnings, lowered its 2018 full-year EPS guidance and raised its sales guidance for the year before the open Friday. What Happened Total net product sales of $3.53 billion in Q1 were 20 percent higher from the same...
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Juno Therapeutics Shows Promise With Non-Hodgkin Lymphoma Drug
Thursday, November 2, 2017 - 2:05pm | 321Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) opened sharply higher after reporting third-quarter earnings after the close Wednesday. The report highlighted ASH abstracts on JCAR017, a non-Hodgkin lymphoma drug, showing promising efficacy and solid safety in r/r DLBCL, Barclays analyst Gena Wang said...
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Benzinga's Bulls And Bears For The Past Week: Disney, GE, Tesla And More
Saturday, September 9, 2017 - 4:50pm | 614Benzinga has featured a look at many investor favorite stocks over the past week. Bearish calls included an iconic industrial and a popular consumer products maker. Bullish calls featured a media giant and the leading EV producer. From the holiday last week to the hurricanes, forest fires and...
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Short-Sellers Favor These 2 Biotech Stocks In July
Thursday, July 28, 2016 - 2:09pm | 605Short interest in a number of biotech stocks dwindled in the most recent settlement period. However, two stocks bucked that trend in the first two weeks of July. During the period, the share price of one grew and of the other dropped sharply. Biotechnology is one of those segments that...
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Juno Therapeutics Soars 25% After ROCKET Phase 2 Rocket Trial Resumption
Wednesday, July 13, 2016 - 8:55am | 276Shares of Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) soared higher by nearly 25 percent to $34.50 ahead of Wednesday's market open. The biopharma company focused on the treatment of cancer announced after Tuesday's market close that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration removed a clinical hold...
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These Biotechs Are Getting Crushed Following Juno's Cancer Drug Hold
Friday, July 8, 2016 - 11:17am | 347Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) announced late Thursday it has received notice from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration that it has placed a clinical hold on its Phase II clinical trial of JCAR015 in patients with relapsed or refractory B cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. The trial,...
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Biogen And Gilead Sciences Buck Biotech Short Interest Trend
Sunday, June 12, 2016 - 2:35pm | 588Short interest in many of the leading biotech stocks shrank in the most recent period. Two stocks in particular stood out among the few that bucked the trend in those two weeks. Shares of both of these stocks rose sharply during the two-week period. Short sellers shied away from many of the...
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Short Interest Surges In Illumina And Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 1:26pm | 550Short interest in many of the leading biotech stocks shrank in the most recent period. Two stocks in particular stood out among the few that bucked the trend in those two weeks. Shares of one of those two stocks slumped more than 22 percent during the period. Short sellers shied away from many of...
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Short Sellers Dump Amgen And Baxalta
Friday, May 13, 2016 - 8:56am | 539Short interest in many of the leading biotech stocks shrank in the most recent period. Two stocks in particular stood out as leaders of that trend in those two weeks. Shares of one of those two stocks rose while the other slumped during the period. Short sellers moved on only a few of the leading...
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Juno Therapeutics Lower, To Acquire AbVitro For $78 Million In Cash And Nearly 1.30 Million Shares
Monday, January 11, 2016 - 2:35pm | 295Shares of Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) were trading lower by more than 4 percent at $34.78 during Monday's trading session. Juno Therapeutics announced earlier that it has acquired AbVitro, Inc., a private biotechnology company whose technology platform accelerates the development...
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Vetr Crowd Sees Juno Therapeutics As A Five-Star Stock
Tuesday, December 8, 2015 - 3:24pm | 346Shares of Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) have gained more nearly 30 percent over the past three months, but are lower by more than 10 percent over the past five days. Despite recent weakness in Juno's stock, the Vetr crowd upgraded the issue to four stars out of a possible five...
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3 Biotech Stocks See Growing Short Interest
Wednesday, May 13, 2015 - 9:40am | 887While short interest in most of the leading biotechs and emerging pharmaceuticals shrank between the April 15 and April 30 settlement dates, three stocks bucked that trend. Biogen Inc (NASDAQ: BIIB), Illumina, Inc. (NASDAQ: ILMN) and Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) saw the number of their...
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3 Biotech Stocks With Rising Short Interest
Tuesday, April 28, 2015 - 7:32am | 936While short interest in most of the leading biotechs and emerging pharmaceuticals shrank between the March 31 and April 15 settlement dates, three stocks bucked that trend. Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ: VRTX) saw the number of their shares...
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3 Industries In A Bubble That Aren't Technology
Thursday, April 2, 2015 - 7:53am | 730Mark Cuban thinks that the current (speculated) tech bubble is worse than the one that destroyed dot-com startups more than a decade ago. Not everyone agrees with this assessment, but that doesn't mean there aren't other bubbles investors should avoid. Jason Whitmire, a partner at...
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Short Sellers Come Back To Biotech Stocks
Thursday, February 26, 2015 - 2:25pm | 868By and large, short interest among the leading biotechs and emerging pharmaceuticals reversed course and rose again between the January 30 and February 13 settlement dates. Leading that trend were Amgen, Inc. (NASDAQ: AMGN), Juno Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: JUNO) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals...