$100bn biotechs like Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NDQ:VRTX) typically get to their position through 'blockbuster drugs' with periods of market exclusivity, which eventually come to an end and cause revenues to fall as cheaper biosimilars come onto the market. The average biotech is facing a loss of revenue of 38%. Of course, some are higher (i.e. Amgen…
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Rejecting a takeover offer is a bold step for an ASX company to take. It is turning down sweet quick cash for its shareholders and management. The argument most commonly made to reject them is that any offers are opportunistic and do not appropriately value the company - indeed, those very words are commonly used.
The board…
The dream run Pfizer had during the pandemic was not going to last forever. But while certain companies that derived a windfall during the pandemic (one example being Sonic (ASX:SHL)) had decent businesses pre-COVID and began to 'normalise' post-pandemic, Pfizer has continued to decline (shares have dropped another 12% in 2025).
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Biotech company Mesoblast (ASX:MSB) is the ultimate definition of a rollercoaster company. As of October 7, 2025, it is capped at $3.2bn, which makes it the third largest 'biotech' behind CSL and Telix (note: we're just talking biotechs, not healthcare stocks more broadly - although if you include all healthcare stocks, MSB still makes the…
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…
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).
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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…
