Wednesday, September 29, 2010

Companies With Big MDx Dreams

This is a relatively unusual quiet period in medical technology, as there are so few emerging sectors that are really capturing attention and drawing high stock multiples. One of the areas that still is drawing attention, however, is molecular diagnostics. A subset of the lucrative multi-billion dollar diagnostics market, molecular diagnostics focuses on the use of modern life sciences technology to use genomic and/or proteomic expression information to diagnose or predict disease. (Find an investment that will give your portfolio a shot in the arm. To learn more, check out A Checklist For Successful Medical Technology Investment.)  

Molecular diagnostics (often abbreviated as MDx) has garnered a lot of hope, enthusiasm, and more recently, disappointment. Although many of the leaders in this space are some of the large companies investors might expect (Roche (Nasdaq:RHHBY), et al), there are several small companies that could give risk-seeking investors an interesting play on the space. 


Please follow the link for the full piece:
http://stocks.investopedia.com/stock-analysis/2010/Small-Companies-With-Big-MDx-Dreams-CRA-EXAS-GHDX-NSPH-SQNM-LMNX-CPHD0929.aspx

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