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3 Stocks With 100% Upside

Biotech stocks had a banner year in 2014. Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AGIO ), Avanir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: AVNR ) and OvaScience, Inc. (Nasdaq: OVAS ), for example, each rose roughly 400%.Indeed, each year brings another set of home run stock picks in this sector, thanks to the twin pillars of FDA approval and promising clinical trial results.Trying to handicap […]

Deutsche Bank's Top Biotech Picks For 2015

View photo.Deutsche Bank on Thursday named its top Small-Cap Biotech picks for 2015. The top picks were selected because they were either a disruptive technology, a rare or orphan disease market, an unmet need market or a stock with a big-time catalyst.Here is what to watch for in Deutsche’s top picks.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT)
Deutsche highlighted PTC Therapeutics as its […]

Deutsche Bank Loves These Small-Cap Biotech Stocks

View photo.Deutsche Bank on Thursday named its top Small-Cap Biotech picks for 2015. The top picks were selected because they were either a disruptive technology, a rare or orphan disease market, an unmet need market or a stock with a big-time catalyst.Here is what to watch for in Deutsche’s top picks.
PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT)
Deutsche highlighted PTC Therapeutics as its […]

The Lone Biotech Bear?

Judging from the atmosphere at last week’s JP Morgan Healthcare conference in San Francisco – which industry veteran and long-time participant Henri Termeer described as the “most optimistic” he had every experienced – the industry’s well-documented problems are clearly behind us. After a decade in the doldrums, the biotech market is on a bull run stretching back more than a […]

State Of The Union Lights Up Biotech

View photo.Biotech companies have been in the spotlight over the past few months with many investors considering the sector a goldmine for great investment opportunities. President Barack Obama in Tuesday’s State of the Union speech highlighted the need for more investment in medical research, a sign that biotech is set to continue as a hot spot in within the market.Precision […]

The 5 Biggest Biotech Stocks

View gallery.Biotech is big, and the industry has been big for quite some time.As a matter of fact, biotechnology has been the second-best performing industry over the last two years.Biotech stocks obviously come in all different shapes and sizes. Some investors like the small-caps, others prefer the middle of the road mid-caps.However, at the end of the day, the big […]

Are Momentum Stocks Losing Momentum?

Never mind how the U.S. stock market is posting modest year-to-date losses close to 2%. Momentum stocks are up and so is risk taking.A comparison of the iShares MSCI USA Momentum Factor ETF (MTUM) – a good proxy for the risk appetite of bullishly trending stocks – versus the S&P 500 (^GSPC) shows that momentum stocks have not yet lost their luster. Over the past […]

3 Warning Signs You've Invested in a Dangerous Biotech Stock

Source: Flickr user epSos .de .There might not be a bell that will ring to alert investors when they have put their money in the wrong biotech stock, but there are warning signals that can help them avoid owning the most dangerous biotech companies. Our Motley Fool contributors explain what these warning signals are and how to use them to […]