Birdflu Stocks

By Johns Wu on Nov 08, 2005

I’ve been watching some bird-flu stocks (BCRX NVAX SVA HEB GNBT AVII CRXL) lately and I thought I’d share my watchlist.

The U.S. government already is buying $162.5 million worth of vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu strain from two companies — Sanofi-Aventis and Chiron Corp. It also is ordering millions of doses of Tamiflu and Relenza, two antiflu drugs believed to offer some protection against the bird flu. -CNN.

NVAX, as many of you know, has been on fire lately. You can find thorough coverage and technicals of NVAX at D Investor’s blog.

Update: GILD is a good diversified bird-flu play. Thanks Tate for pointing it out.

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6 Responses to “Birdflu Stocks”

By catablast.com on November 8th, 2005 at 8:54 pm

make sure you check out the article at the back of this months forbes — it lists 6 avian flu plays worth your time.

Most of them are losing money hand over fist; whichever company wins a contract or develops the next wonderdrug will see its shares skyrocket obviously……

talk about a momentum play.

By Tate on November 9th, 2005 at 11:47 am

You could add Gilead (GILD) to that list which is the least speculative of the bunch - they would collect royalties from any tamiflu produced

By catablast | com on November 10th, 2005 at 8:10 pm

You could add Gilead (GILD) to that list which is the least speculative of the bunch…

That’s precisely why’ll you make the least ammount of money if you default to GILD.

Think wall street not main street…

By Tate on November 11th, 2005 at 7:18 am

..or lose the most - i personally don’t like picking the needle out of the haystack - to each his own

By Denis on November 22nd, 2005 at 12:04 am

Didn’t read this post until now. Thanks for the recommendation. =)

By Anonymous on December 21st, 2005 at 2:29 pm