2013 was a banner year for the life sciences sector, with biotech,
pharmaceutical, and medtech companies buoyed by advances in therapeutic
techniques, a friendly regulatory environment, lucrative partnerships
and the overall market upswing.
The 2013 Biotech Watchlist reflected this robustness, boasting a
year-to-date return that blew past those posted by the major indices.
Credit the basket of stocks picked by industry experts, weighted heavily
with winners.
Can our panel of experts pick another winning portfolio in 2014? Find
out which companies they've chosen for the 2014 Watchlist in this
exclusive from The Life Sciences Report. (more)
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Thursday, January 23, 2014
Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT) Stock is Poised for a 40% Rebound
Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN)
makes it look easy. The e-commerce titan has just wrapped up its 15th
straight year of at least 20% revenue growth, which is harder than it
sounds when you consider its revenue base now stands at $75 billion.
If only all other kinds of e-commerce businesses were so easy to build. Other firms, while clearly benefiting from the long-term growth in the frictionless world of online commerce, are still suffering from growing pains.
Case in point: Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT), which helps businesses buy and sell surplus equipment through online exchanges. The company had a tremendous growth spurt, boosting sales from $219 million in fiscal 2009 (ended in September) to $475 million by fiscal 2012. Yet sales growth slowed to 6% in fiscal 2013, and analysts don't see much growth in the current fiscal year, sending this stock into a deep funk.
With
shares now trading for one-third of the price they fetched in 2012,
contrarian investors have started to give this e-commerce play a second
look. Though LQDT is unlikely to revisit the $65 mark any time soon, a
move back to $30 or even $35 looks quite feasible as the company starts
to snag new customers. (more)
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If only all other kinds of e-commerce businesses were so easy to build. Other firms, while clearly benefiting from the long-term growth in the frictionless world of online commerce, are still suffering from growing pains.
Case in point: Liquidity Services (NASDAQ: LQDT), which helps businesses buy and sell surplus equipment through online exchanges. The company had a tremendous growth spurt, boosting sales from $219 million in fiscal 2009 (ended in September) to $475 million by fiscal 2012. Yet sales growth slowed to 6% in fiscal 2013, and analysts don't see much growth in the current fiscal year, sending this stock into a deep funk.
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Facebook to lose 80% of its users by 2017 : FB, TWTR
The Facebook generation may be
about to come to an end if Princeton University researchers are correct.
A new study predicts “a rapid decline in Facebook activity in the next
few years.” The study, conducted by two researchers in Princeton’s
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, applies the same
model used in the study of disease to extrapolate future adoption and
abandonment of social networks.
In the case of Facebook (FB),
the researchers used MySpace as a case study for a social network whose
use spread rapidly, like a disease, and then quickly died out when the
number of new users declined. The study finds that Facebook is “just
beginning to show the onset of an abandonment phase.” The researchers
believe that abandonment will accelerate to
the point that Facebook could lose 80% of its users between 2015 and
2017.
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Oil Set to Rocket
Some of us stopped believing in fairytales long ago and then there
were those that never thought that Goldilocks ate anybody’s porridge.
So, there are two types of believers. Those that did and now don’t
anymore because they have grown up and those that never ever did have
the wool pulled over their eyes. It’s the same with the economy these
days. Either you believed that it was getting better and listened to the
propaganda emanating from the once-hallowed portals of the statist
politik bureau of the government or you never believed a word of what
got spun by the spinners and the media-controlling decision-makers that
are there to eat your porridge and sit in your chairs (even lie in your
beds). The latter have always thought it was all just a load of old Tom
Cobbley from the start.
So is the economy getting better or is it a fairytale dream?
Who knows the answer to that question today? Well, if we believe the International Energy Agency (IEA), then the economy is getting better around the world since oil consumption is increasing. It has been forecast to increase and will outstrip even shale oil production which is most certainly taking off in the USA today and is set to do the same elsewhere (in the UK, for example). Whether we believe the IEA is another matter entirely, but it is the organization that advises the largest energy-consuming countries in the world on their policies regarding energy consumption and production. (more)
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So is the economy getting better or is it a fairytale dream?
Who knows the answer to that question today? Well, if we believe the International Energy Agency (IEA), then the economy is getting better around the world since oil consumption is increasing. It has been forecast to increase and will outstrip even shale oil production which is most certainly taking off in the USA today and is set to do the same elsewhere (in the UK, for example). Whether we believe the IEA is another matter entirely, but it is the organization that advises the largest energy-consuming countries in the world on their policies regarding energy consumption and production. (more)
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A Dozen Gold, Copper, Phosphate and Uranium Standouts
The Gold Report
Amanda
Van Dyke of Palisade Capital is confident that China’s reforms will
ensure that the commodity supercycle will continue for some time to
come. In this interview with The Mining Report, Van Dyke argues that
investors should worry less about the right balance of specific
commodities and more about the right mix of early-stage,
development-stage and producing companies. She expands on a dozen she
believes have the right stuff to succeed.
The Mining Report: In December Federal Reserve
Chairman Ben Bernanke announced a $10 million ($10M) cut in monthly
quantitative easing (QE). He also said that interest rates would remain
at zero for the foreseeable future. What effects will these decisions
have on the economy and on precious metals?Amanda Van Dyke: Precious metals have been trending down for a number of reasons. One was the perception, starting about March 2013, that the Federal Reserve was going to taper QE and an end to QE was in sight.
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