Healthcare: 3 Genomics Stocks Revolutionizing Healthcare And Why Alnylam's New Deal Didn't Excite Investors
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
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🗓️ 10 April 2019
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Here's why a $1 billion deal with Regeneron failed to spark a rally in Alnylam shares. Also, will genetic discovery be our generation's biggest trend? If so, Illumina, bluebird bio, and Invitae could be top stocks to watch.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Industry Focus, the show that dives into a different sector of the stock market every single day. |
| 0:08.0 | Today is Wednesday, April the 10th, and we're talking health care. |
| 0:12.0 | I'm your host Shannon Jones. I am joined via Skype by |
| 0:15.1 | health care guru Todd Campbell. Todd how are you? Hi Shannon how are you doing |
| 0:19.8 | today? I am doing well thanks I'm super excited for today's show where I diving into one of the |
| 0:26.3 | hottest areas in terms of investments in the bio-pharma space that's none other |
| 0:31.0 | than the gene. |
| 0:33.0 | So we're going to kick things off talking a little bit about the latest billion dollar partnership deal. |
| 0:39.0 | And then we'll be serving up three top genomic stocks that every listener should at least be watching |
| 0:45.8 | if not adding to your portfolio. Todd, let's just kick things right off from the beginning. |
| 0:52.1 | This billion dollar partnership |
| 0:53.9 | deal really not necessarily a new deal I would consider it more strengthening a |
| 0:57.8 | deal between two massive players in the space first off al-N-L-N-L Pharmaceuticals that sticker symbol A.L. and Y. |
| 1:06.8 | Best known for their gene silencing platform, which we'll talk a little bit more about. |
| 1:11.2 | But they announced they'd be strengthening their |
| 1:12.8 | partnership one of them with one of the most profitable drug makers in the |
| 1:16.8 | S&P 500 that's Regeneron ticker symbol R E, G, N. Todd, interestingly enough, analysts actually seemed to like the deal. |
| 1:25.9 | Seems to make sense for both. But the market wasn't necessarily cheering for this deal. |
| 1:31.5 | Immediately after the news came out. |
| 1:34.3 | Nialum was down about 3%, Regeneron down about 2%. |
| 1:38.8 | Todd, what's the deal with this deal? |
| 1:41.4 | Yeah, it's a big collective yawn by Wall Street investors on the deal, despite the |
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