I read that article as well, and was interested in particular because Husic owns over 10% of a company I also own, MFIC.
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Note that the latest filing by Husic indicates that they own even more shares, so the Yahoo number may be low.
Interesting that PFE also owns a chunk of the stock, approximately 6% of the float.
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The company is profitable, but wouldn't qualify as a value play at this point, but it seems relevant given the Husic mention. They have already preannounced Q4 revenues which were up over 40% year over year, along with a much improved backlog.
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One of their main products is a Microfluidizer. I wouldn't pretend to understand exactly what that is, but their main customers for this product are pharmaceutical companies, so the fact that Pfizer likes the product well enough to buy a stake in the company is pretty impressive.
Finally, they have recently announced that they have developed a process for...well, read the article, I certainly wouldn't pretend to understand the intricacies of this one, but it sounds impressive. <g>
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