Healthcare: Geron Corp. Skyrocketed and AbbVie Inc. Crashed -- Are These Stocks Buys?
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 28 March 2018
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Geron’s future hinges on an uncertainty and AbbVie’s shares are teetering following some disappointing news. Should these stocks be in your portfolio?
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| 0:19.6 | Welcome to industry focus the podcast that dives into a different sector of the stock market every day. |
| 0:27.0 | Today is March 28th and this is the health care edition of the show. |
| 0:30.0 | I'm your host, Christine Harjus and I have health care specialist Todd Campbell on the line. |
| 0:35.0 | Welcome to the show Todd. |
| 0:36.0 | Hi Christine, happy Wednesday. |
| 0:38.0 | Happy Wednesday to you too. |
| 0:40.0 | So we are starting off today's show with a listener email. |
| 0:43.0 | Isaac wrote to us from Wausau, Wisconsin. |
| 0:46.0 | I hope I'm saying that correctly. |
| 0:48.0 | He's a shareholder in Geron, ticker symbol G-E-R-N, |
| 0:52.0 | one of the most volatile companies I have dug into in a while, which is partnered |
| 0:56.2 | ironically with one of the most stable, Johnson and Johnson. |
| 0:59.7 | The two have been working on developing a drug called Imitelstadt and a recent surgeon optimism has made |
| 1:04.8 | Geron the best performing biotech stock so far this year. Todd what has investors so excited? |
| 1:10.8 | We have a very, very big binary event that's coming up very quickly for Geron and |
| 1:17.0 | we're going to get into all the details behind that but I think that it's kind of |
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