Activist investors are no stranger to the health-care sector, an industry known for binary events and buyouts. In this video, health-care analyst David Williamson discusses two recent news items catching the attention of investors following the moves of these heavyweight activists.
The first is�Forest Labs CEO Howard Solomon's announcement he will call it a career as the head of the company.�Legendary investor Carl Icahn, who is a major Forest shareholder and has a board seat, has shown misgivings in the past toward management. He has no comment on this news, but he may use the�opportunity�to exert his influence on Forest's direction.
Obesity-drug maker VIVUS has found itself in the activist investor crosshairs as well. First Manhattan, which controls 9.9% of the company, has been critical of its unpartnered launch of Qsymia and has�recruited Icahn disciple Alex Denner, nominating him for the board of directors along with eight others.�If successful on July 15, expect First Manhattan to try to shake up VIVUS by�aggressively pursuing a partnership or possibly even a sale.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Workspace Group(WKP.L)
Workspace Group PLC, a real estate investment trust (REIT), engages in property investment in the form of letting of business accommodation to small and medium sized enterprises in London and the South East of England. It offers space for serviced offices, offices, studios, workshops, and light industrial units. The company owns 100 estates, comprising approximately 5.77 million square feet, and provides accommodation for 4,000 small businesses in London and the South East. It has a joint venture with Workspace Glebe Limited, which engages in property investment. The company has elected to be treated as a REIT for federal income tax purposes and would not be subject to income tax, if it distributes at least 90 % of its REIT taxable income to its share holders. Workspace Group PLC, formerly known as London Industrial PLC, was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: eLong Inc.(LONG)
eLong, Inc. operates as an online travel service provider in the People?s Republic of China. The company provides its customers with travel information and the ability to book rooms, air tickets, vacation packages, and other travel related services utilizing call center and Web-based distribution technologies. It facilitates the customers to book rooms in approximately 10,000 hotels in 450 cities across China, and fulfills air ticket reservations in approximately 80 cities across China. In addition, the company offers the ability to book rooms at approximately 100,000 hotels outside of China; and provides the customers informative content relevant to hotel and air travel decisions, including tourist and event site destination information, hotel facility information, and photos. eLong markets its services through online marketing, traditional media advertising, co-marketing with established brands of other companies, and direct marketing. The company was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Beijing, the People?s Republic of China. eLong, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Expedia Asia Pacific Limited.
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eLong, Inc. (ADR) (NASDAQ:LONG) is the 10th best-performing stock last month in this segment of the market. It was up 62.09% for the past month. Its price percentage change was 17.47% year-to-date.
Top 5 Consumer Stocks To Buy Right Now: TeleTech Holdings Inc.(TTEC)
TeleTech Holdings, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, provides customer experience strategy, technology, and business process outsourcing solutions worldwide. The company offers revenue generation solutions, including designing and managing approximately 8,000 client-branded e-commerce Websites, and processing 3 terabytes of customer data daily to create and implement customer targeting and segmentation strategies to enhance customer acquisition, retention, and growth. It also offers customer innovation solutions that integrate voice, chat, e-mail, ecommerce, and social media to enhance the customer experience for its clients; and enterprise innovation solutions that comprise redesigning and managing clients? back-office processes to enhance clients? abilities to obtain a customer-centric view of their relationships. In addition, the company provides managed technology solutions consisting of software and infrastructure as a service; and designing, implementing, and m anaging clients? premise-based delivery center environments to enable companies to deliver a customer experience across various touch points. Further, it offers learning innovation training solutions that utilizes a methodology, which includes virtual job-simulation environments, eLearning courses, interactive social media networking, and collaboration, as well as intuitive 3D and game-based learning courses; data analytics to provide real time and actionable customer insight regarding how to grow revenue, reduce customer churn, and enhance operating efficiencies; and professional services to deliver customer-centric solutions. The company serves automotive, broadband, cable, financial services, healthcare, logistics, media and entertainment, retail, technology, travel, and wireline and wireless communication industries. TeleTech Holdings, Inc. was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Brooks Automation Inc.(BRKS)
Brooks Automation, Inc. provides automation, vacuum, and instrumentation solutions for semiconductor manufacturing, life sciences, and clean energy markets worldwide. The company?s Brooks Product Solutions segment provides a range of products critical to technology equipment productivity and availability. This segment?s products include atmospheric and vacuum tool automation systems, atmospheric and vacuum robots and robotic modules, and cryogenic vacuum pumping, thermal management, and vacuum measurement solutions, which are used to create, measure, and control critical process vacuum applications. Its Brooks Life Science Systems segment offers automated sample management systems, including automated sample storage, automated blood fractionation equipment, sample preparation and handling equipment, consumables, parts, and support services to various life science customers, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, biobanks, national laboratories, rese arch institutes, and research universities. The company?s Brooks Global Services segment provides a range of support services, including on and off-site repair services, on and off-site diagnostic support services, and installation services to enable the customers to maximize process tool uptime and productivity. This segment also offers spare part support services to end-user customers. Brooks Automation, Inc. was founded in 1978 and is headquartered in Chelmsford, Massachusetts.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: ZIOPHARM Oncology Inc(ZIOP)
ZIOPHARM Oncology, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of small molecule and synthetic biology approaches to cancer therapies in the United States. The company's clinical programs include Palifosfamide, a DNA cross-linker, which is in a phase III clinical trial for the treatment of metastatic soft tissue sarcoma in the front-line setting. ZIOPHARM is also developing Palifosfamide in combination with etoposide and carboplatin in phase I clinical trial to determine safety for initiating a pivotal, adaptive phase III trial in front-line. In addition, the company, in partnership with Intrexon Corporation, is developing DNA-based therapeutics (synthetic biology) that include two phase 1 clinical-stage product candidates, both of which are DNA IL-12 to be turned on/off by an oral activator ligand. Further, it is developing Indibulin, an oral tubulin binding agent, which is in Phase 1/2 for metastatic breast cancer; and Darinaparsin , a mitochondrial- and hedgehog-targeted agent that is in a solid tumor phase I study with oral administration and has been developed intravenously for the treatment of relapsed peripheral T-cell lymphoma. The company was founded in 2003 and is headquartered in New York City, New York.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: TASER International Inc.(TASR)
TASER International, Inc. develops, manufactures, and sells electronic control devices (ECD) for use in the law enforcement, military, corrections, private security, and personal defense markets. ECDs transmit electrical pulses along the wires and into the body affecting the sensory and motor functions of the peripheral nervous system. Its products for the law enforcement, military, corrections, and professional security market include the TASER X26 product line, which consists of TASER X26, various cartridges, a digital power magazine, data download software and equipment, extended warranties, and a range of holstering options and accessories; TASER X3, a multi-shot ECD that would engage three separate targets; and ADVANCED TASER M26 product line comprising the ADVANCED TASER M26, various cartridges, rechargeable batteries, a battery charging system, data download software and equipment, extended warranties, and various holstering options and accessories. The company also provides TASER XREP, a self-contained, wireless ECD that deploys from a 12-gauge pump-action shotgun; and TASER Shockwave security system for safety and stand-off capability during hostile situations. In addition, it manufactures TASER C2, TASER X26C, and ADVANCED TASER M26C devices for the personal defense market, as well as provides various cartridges and other accessories. The company sells its products worldwide through its direct sales force, distribution partners, online store, and third-party resellers. TASER International, Inc. was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Stereotaxis Inc.(STXS)
Stereotaxis, Inc. designs, manufactures, and markets cardiology instrument control systems for use in a hospital?s interventional surgical suite or interventional lab for the treatment of arrhythmias and coronary artery diseases in the United States and internationally. The company provides Niobe system, which includes Niobe Magnetic Navigation System that navigates catheters, guidewires, and other delivery devices through complex paths in the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to carry out treatment; Navigant, a user interface or physician control center, which physicians use to visualize and track procedures and to provide instrument control commands that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter, guidewire, or other interventional device; Cardiodrive, a catheter advancement system to remotely advance and retract the catheter in the patient?s heart. It also offers Odyssey enterprise solutions, which provides information solutions to manage, control, rec ord, and share procedures across networks; acquires remote view of the lab capturing synchronized procedure data for review of important events during cases; and review recorded cases and create snapshots following procedures for clinical reporting, auditing, and presentation. In addition, the company provides disposable interventional devices comprising automated catheters, coronary guidewires, and navigation and ablation systems. It markets its products through its direct sales force, distributors, and sales agents. The company was founded in 1990 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Moly Mines Ltd(MOL.AX)
Moly Mines Limited engages in the exploration, development, and mining of mineral resources primarily in Australia. The company primarily holds a 100% interest in the Spinifex Ridge property, which consists of Spinifex Ridge iron ore mine and development stage Spinifex Ridge molybdenum-copper project covering an area of approximately 3,000 square hectares and is located in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Its exploration projects include Glen Eden, Mt Pleasant, and Mt Tennyson molybdenum projects situated in New South Wales, Australia. The company was formerly known as Hibernia Gold Limited and changed its name to Moly Mines Limited in April 2005. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in West Perth, Australia. Moly Mines Limited is a subsidiary of Hanlong Mining Investment Pty Ltd.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Republic First Bancorp Inc.(FRBK)
Republic First Bancorp, Inc. operates as the holding company for Republic First Bank that offers banking services to individuals and businesses. It accepts various deposit products that include consumer and commercial deposit accounts, including checking accounts; interest-bearing demand accounts; money market accounts; certificates of deposit; savings accounts; sweep accounts; and individual retirement accounts, as well as provides lockbox services. The company?s loan portfolio comprises secured and unsecured commercial loans, real estate loans, construction and land development loans, automobile loans, home improvement loans, mortgages, home equity and overdraft lines of credit, and other products. It opertaes through six Philadelphia offices and seven suburban offices in Plymouth Meeting, Bala Cynwyd, Ardmore, and Abington located in Montgomery County; Media located in Delaware County; and Haddonfield and Voorhees, located in Southern New Jersey. The company was founde d in 1987 and is based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Top 10 Managed Healthcare Stocks To Invest In 2014: Pulaski Financial Corp.(PULB)
Pulaski Financial Corp. operates as the holding company for Pulaski Bank that provides a range of financial products and services for businesses and retail customers. The company offers savings deposits, certificates of deposits, commercial papers, short-term money market securities, and other corporate and government securities. Its loan portfolio includes residential mortgage loans; home equity lines of credit; one- to four-family residential construction loans; residential or commercial real estate loans; multi-family residential loans; commercial and industrial loans; and consumer and other loans. The company also provides title insurance products and services, including owner?s policies of insurance, lender?s policies of insurance, and miscellaneous title information products, such as letter reports for residential and commercial transactions; and insurance products and annuities. In addition, it offers appraisal services to mortgage loan customers. Pulaski Financia l Corp. serves customers throughout the St. Louis and Kansas City metropolitan areas and Wichita, Kansas. As of January 17, 2012, it operated 13 full-service branch offices and 6 loan production offices. The company was founded in 1922 and is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri.
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