Given that you clicked on this article, it seems safe to assume you either own stock in SVB Financial (NASDAQ: SIVB ) or are considering buying shares in the near future. If so, then you've come to the right place. The table below reveals the nine most critical numbers that investors need to know about SVB Financial stock before deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold it.
SVB Financial is not your typical bank. Located in Northern California, it's the holding company for Silicon Valley Bank, a niche lender that focuses almost exclusively on companies in the technology, life sciences, and winery space. Think venture capital. "For nearly three decades," its website reads, "SVB Financial Group and its subsidiaries, including Silicon Valley Bank, have been dedicated to helping entrepreneurs succeed." And if its share-price performance is any indication, this model has succeeded. Over the past 10 years, the total return to shareholders has been 273%. For context, only a handful of banks exceeded the 100% mark over this same time period -- including JPMorgan Chase, Goldman Sachs, Wells Fargo, and PNC Financial -- and roughly half of the 100-plus banks I examined actually declined in value over the same time period.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Optimer Pharmaceuticals Inc.(OPTR)
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing hospital specialty products worldwide. It develops products that treat gastrointestinal infections and related diseases. The company provides two late-stage anti-infective product candidates, including Fidaxomicin, a narrow spectrum antibiotic for the treatment of Clostridium difficile-infection, which completed two Phase 3 trials; and Pruvel, a prodrug in the fluoroquinolone class of antibiotics, has completed two Phase 3 trials for the treatment of infectious diarrhea, including traveler?s diarrhea. It also develops product candidates using its proprietary technology Optimer One-Pot Synthesis, a computer-aided technology that enables the rapid synthesis of various proprietary molecules. In addition, the company?s other pipeline product candidates consist of CEM-101 (OP-1068), a macrolide and ketolide antibiotic, which is in Phase 2 trials for the treatment of upper and lower respiratory tract infections; and OPT-822/821, a novel carbohydrate-based cancer immunotherapy, is in Phase 2/3 trials for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer. It has collaborative agreements with Astellas Pharma Europe Ltd.; Par Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Nippon Shinyaku, Co., Ltd.; Cempra Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center; and The Scripps Research Institute. Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. was founded in 1998 and is based in San Diego, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Lowell]
Optimer Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OPTR) focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing hospital specialty products worldwide and has a market cap of $729.76 million.
Net institutional shares purchased over the current quarter come in at seven million, which is 16.56% of the company’s 42.26 million-share float. The stock’s longest winning streak over the last month was seven days, while the longest losing streak was three days, or a win streak/lose streak ratio of 2.33.
The stock is a short squeeze candidate, with a short float at 15.87% (equivalent to 8.3 days of average volume). The stock has had a couple of great days, gaining 22.44% over the last week.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Portland General Electric Company (POR)
Portland General Electric Company operates as an integrated electric utility in Oregon. The company engages in the generation, purchase, transmission, distribution, and retail sale of electricity. Its generating portfolio consists of thermal, hydro, and wind resources. The company also sells electricity and natural gas in the wholesale market to utilities, brokers, and power marketers in the western United States and Canada. As of March 31, 2011, it served approximately 821,193 residential, commercial, and industrial customers. The company was founded in 1930 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon.
Top Chemical Stocks For 2014: QLT Inc.(QLTI)
QLT Inc., a biotechnology company, engages in the development and commercialization of ocular products that address the unmet medical needs of patients and clinicians. It offers Visudyne that utilizes light-activated photodynamic therapy to treat the eye disease known as wet age related macular degeneration. Visudyne is also used for the treatment of subfoveal choroidal neovascularization secondary to pathologic myopia, severe near-sightedness, and presumed ocular histoplasmosis. The company?s developmental stage products include Latanoprost Punctal Plug Drug Delivery System, which is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of glaucoma and allergic conjunctivitis; and QLT091001, which is in Phase Ib clinical trial for the treatment of leber congenital amaurosis and retinitis pigmentosa. QLT Inc. markets its products in approximately 80 countries worldwide. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Harris Corporation (HRS)
Harris Corporation, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a communications and information technology company that serves government and commercial markets worldwide. It operates in three segments: RF Communications, Government Communications Systems, and Broadcast Communications. The RF Communications segment designs, develops, and manufactures secure radio communications products and systems for manpack, handheld, soldier-worn, vehicular, strategic fixed-site, and shipboard applications that operate in various radio frequency bands. It also offers products and solutions ranging from wireless network infrastructure solutions to portable and mobile single-band and multiband radios, and public safety-grade broadband video and data solutions for the public safety, federal, utility, commercial, and transportation markets. The Government Communications Systems segment develops, supplies, and integrates communications and information processing products, systems, and netw orks for aerospace, terrestrial, and maritime applications supporting department of defense missions. This segment also provides mission-critical communications and information processing systems for the U.S. civilian Federal market, as well as offers IT transformation, managed, and information assurance solutions. The Broadcast Communications segment provides workflow, infrastructure, and networking solutions that enable media companies to streamline workflow from production through transmission; media solutions to manage digital media workflow through software solutions for advertising, media management, digital signage, broadband, digital asset management, and play-out automation; and transmission systems for delivery of media over wireless broadcast terrestrial networks. The company also offers healthcare IT solutions, IT compliance solutions, and mission-critical managed satellite communications services. Harris Corporation was founded in 1895 and is based in Melbourne, Florida.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Align Technology Inc.(ALGN)
Align Technology, Inc., a medical device company, designs, manufactures, and markets clear aligner systems or Invisalign systems, intra-oral scanners, and computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided manufacturing (CAM) restorative models used in dentistry, orthodontics, and dental records storage in North America and Internationally. The company?s clear aligner products include Invisalign Full for the treatment of malocclusions; Invisalign Express and Invisalign Lite solutions for less complex orthodontic cases; Invisalign Teen, which is primarily marketed to orthodontists for treating malocclusion in teenage patients; Invisalign Assist for use in anterior alignment and aesthetically-oriented cases; and Vivera retainers for invisalign and non-invisalign patients. It also offers ancillary products comprising cleaning material and adjusting tools used by dental professionals during the course of treatment. In addition, the company provides iTero scanners; iOC scanners; a nd iTero dual scanner, which includes both the iTero restorative software and the iOC orthodontic software, as well as services comprising iTero restorative and OrthoCAD services. Further, it offers CAD/CAM services, such as iTero Models and Dies; OrthoCAD iCast and OrthoCAD iRecord that provides a digital alternative to traditional stone cast models, which allows for simplified storage and digital record retrieval; and OrthoCAD iQ, a computer-guided system for optimal placement of traditional brackets and customized indirect bonding tray system. The company distributes its products primarily directly to orthodontists and general practitioner dentists, as well as restorative dentists, including prosthodontists, periodontists, and oral surgeons. Align Technology, Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
Advisors' Opinion:- [By Bobby Raines]
Align Technologies makes and sells the clear dental braces known as Invisalign, along with intra-oral scanners and other dental technology. The company has a five-year annualized EPS growth rate of 20.36%. The stock is trading at about 113$ of its 52-week low. The stock fell sharply in October after the company missed earnings estimates by a penny and ended a distribution relationship. The company announced some restructuring and organizational changes in December, which will result in some severance costs in the fourth quarter of 2012 and the first quarter of 2013. The company has the best-known brand in its market and is steadily increasing the number of dentists who are trained to sell its products, which we believe will help support the stock and fuel future growth.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: PostRock Energy Corporation(PSTR)
PostRock Energy Corporation, an integrated independent energy company, engages in the acquisition, exploration, development, production, and transportation of oil and natural gas in the United States. It operates in two segments, Oil and Gas Production, and Natural Gas Pipelines. The Oil and Gas Production segment primarily focuses on the development of coal bed methane in the Cherokee basin and the Marcellus Shale in Appalachian Basin, as well as has oil properties in Central Oklahoma. As of December 31, 2009, it had approximately 51.9 billion cubic feet equivalent (Bcfe) of estimated net proved reserves; development rights to approximately 516,184 net acres; and operated approximately 2,849 gross wells in the Cherokee Basin. It also had approximately 44,507 net acres of oil and natural gas producing properties with estimated proved reserves of 18.9 Bcfe and approximately 498 gross wells in Appalachian Basin; and had 65 gross wells, development rights to approximately 1,4 80 net acres, and estimated net proved reserves, 3.9 Bcfe in Central Oklahoma. The Natural Gas Pipelines segment involves in transporting, gathering, treating, and processing natural gas. It owns and operates a natural gas gathering pipeline networks of approximately 2,173 miles in the Cherokee Basin and 183 miles in the Appalachian Basin; and a 1,120 mile interstate natural gas pipeline, which transports natural gas from northern Oklahoma and western Kansas to the metropolitan Wichita and Kansas City markets. The company is headquartered in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Cosmos Ltd(COO.AX)
Corum Group Limited provides dispense and point of sale software applications, hardware, and support services to pharmacies in Australia. The company also offers funds transfer, and bill presentment and payment solutions through electronic methodologies for payment of rent, utilities, local government fees, and commercial obligations. In addition, it provides a range of training services to the real estate industry, including industry qualification courses, distance learning, skill-developing, and success orientated programs and coaching. The company was formerly known as Cosmos Limited and changed its name to Corum Group Limited in November 2006. Corum Group Limited is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: Cornerstone Capital Resources I (CGP.V)
Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc., through its subsidiaries, engages in the evaluation, acquisition, and exploration of mineral properties in Canada and South America. It explores for gold, silver, copper, nickel, volcanogenic massive sulphide, base and precious metals, rare earth elements, and uranium properties. As of March 31, 2012, the company�s exploration properties comprised 2,172 claims in Canada, 62 claims in Chile, and 19 concessions in Ecuador. Cornerstone Capital Resources Inc. was founded in 1997 and is headquartered in Mount Pearl, Canada.
10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: PCCW Ltd (8)
PCCW Limited is a Hong Kong-based holding company. Its subsidiary HKT provides telecommunications and related services, including local telephony, local data and broadband, international telecommunications, mobile, customer premises equipment sale, outsourcing, consulting and contact centers, primarily in Hong Kong, mainland China and elsewhere in the world. Media Business includes interactive pay- television (TV) services, Internet portal multimedia entertainment platform and the Company�� directories operations in Hong Kong and mainland China. Solutions Business offers Information and Communications Technologies services and solutions in Hong Kong and mainland China. Pacific Century Premium Developments Limited covers the Company�� property portfolio in Hong Kong and mainland China, including the Cyberport development in Hong Kong, and elsewhere in Asia. Other Businesses include the Company�� wireless broadband business in the United Kingdom and all corporate support functions.10 Best Life Sciences Stocks To Watch Right Now: GeoMet Inc.(GMET)
GeoMet, Inc., an independent energy company, engages in the exploration for, development, and production of natural gas from coal seams and non-conventional shallow gas. Its principal operations and producing properties are located in the Cahaba Basin in Alabama and the central Appalachian Basin in west Virginia and Virginia. The company also owns additional coalbed methane, and oil and gas development rights, principally in Alabama, Virginia, West Virginia, and British Columbia. As of September 30, 2011, it owned approximately 143,000 net acres of coalbed methane, and oil and gas development rights. The company, formerly known as GeoMet Resources, Inc., was founded in 1985 and is headquartered in Houston, Texas.
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