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- From: taw4@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu (TODD A WATKINS)
- Newsgroups: misc.invest
- Subject: Re: Hot Ideas?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov16.230122.121547@ns1.cc.lehigh.edu>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 23:01:22 GMT
- Organization: Lehigh University
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- >>>Anyone other private investors out there care to post hot investment
- >>>ideas (along with the reasons they're hot)?
- >>>
- >>>Here's one of mine:
- >>>
- >>>GNLB: A medical research company. They recently have gone into
- >>>late stage trials on several anti-viral medicines. Could
- >>>take off in a year or so but it might crash if their medicines are
- >>>not approved.
- >>>
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- >>Here's one...PDLI. Protein Design Labs out of Palo Alto, California. Researc
- h
- >>and development of cancer and anti-viral medicines including an
- >>off-branch of Chiron's IL-2 (with Hoffman-LaRoche).
- >>
- >>Currently has FDA and Department of Health examining 2 projects for human
- >>testing allowance....Initial hype brought the stock from 7 1/4 to 11 7/8 in
- >>a very short time.
- >>
- >>High point of the stock was I believe 17 or 18....Will it go up?..Friday had
- >>MANY share trade hands but stock only rose 1/8...My guess is investors thought
- >>the price would peak and sold off their shares.
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- My favorites are Summit Technology, VISX Inc, and Sunrise Technology, all of
- which hold patents on medical laser equipment for corneal sculpting -- Summit
- is in Phase III clinical trials and expect FDA approval in 1993 or 1994 for
- their systems which will correct nearsightedness, astigmatism and other vision
- problems. They're already selling the things throughout Germany and elsewhere
- in Europe. Allow people to toss their glasses after a quick visit to the eye
- doc. Summit and VISX signed a joint venture agreement to resolve a patent
- fight recently, and all 3 displayed promising products at last weeks national
- opthomologists meeting. Stock jumped a bunch, and may fall near term, but
- for investing for a couple of years with huge growth potential, looks like a
- multibillion dollar market is out there, and these are the clear leaders.
- --
- Todd A. Watkins Lehigh University/College of Business & Economics
- taw4@lehigh.edu Rauch Business Center #37/Bethlehem, PA 18015
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