Hear the term 'Activist investors' and you might think of GetUp, the progressive activist group that forced Woolworths to hold an EGM in 2014 in an attempt to limit the maximum bets on poker machines to $1. Or perhaps even of ESG-focused fundies like Australian Ethical (ASX:AEF). The reality is a lot more complicated and…
Biotech Stocks
Mere days after Artrya (ASX:AYA) obtained FDA approval for its heart-health technology, EBR Systems (ASX:EBR) has achieved that same feat.
The company made a surprising 15% plunge on the day of the announcement, and the share price has been nuanced since. However, it is still a >$500m company more than when it first listed. Let's take…
Proteomics' suite of Promarker tests are all being launched in 2025.
The range includes:
PromarkerD for DKD which has been launched in Australia and the USA;
PromarkerEso for Esophageal cancer which is now commercially available in Australia, and
PromarkerEndo for Endometriosis which will be commercialised shortly.
Launching 3 tests in a a year is…
Amplia Therapeutics (ASX:ATX) is another ASX oncology biotech company, attempting to battle cancer. At first glance, it may not a unique company but when you dig deeper...it is. It is using an 'FAK inhibitor' to fight pancreatic cancer (and potentially other indications down the track).
What are the Best ASX Stocks to invest in right now?…
There's another company about to join the cohort of ASX biotech stocks and its name is Nexsen. Nexsen is proposed to list on Tuesday October 7, raising $6m at 20c per share, and to have the code NXN. This company has a rapid sensing technology that it will first commercialise to detect Group B Streptococcus…
It's taken a while to get here, but the US medical device company Imagion Biosystems (ASX: IBX), which listed on the ASX way back in June 2017, is now getting to a really interesting stage of its clinical development, and has just raised $3.5m at 1.5 cents per share to fund this stage.
Imagion Biosystems was…
When Perth-based Emyria (ASX:EMD) announced on 18 June that Medibank would be funding eligible customer participation in Emyria's Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder care programme, with no out-of-pocket costs, investors who know the Life Sciences sector needed to sit up and take notice. Here was Australia's largest health insurer, with over 4.2 million customers, saying that it…
4 years after listing and over 7 years after its founding, Artrya (ASX:AYA) achieved the aspiration of most ASX medtechs, in obtaining FDA approval. Its Salix suite of products aims to improve the detection and treatment of Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), which is a major cause of heart attacks.
Entering the US was always this company's…
Think of 'America First' ASX stocks and Island Pharmaceuticals (ASX:ILA) typically hasn't come to mind, but its acquisition of Galidesivir should put it firmly in the list. You cannot question the data that the company is in possession of, but some investors may think a company with plans to undertake an 'animal study' is years…
4DMedical Doubles in a Month: Momentum or Peak?
A 100 percent share price surge in just one month will always turn heads, but the real question is whether the story has just begun or is already peaking. That’s the situation facing investors watching 4DMedical (ASX:4DX), a small-cap respiratory imaging company now riding the momentum of…
