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Biotech / Medical : VVUS: VIVUS INC. (NASDAQ)
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To: K MAC who wrote (2072)11/5/1997 6:18:00 PM
From: Tunica Albuginea  Read Replies (2) of 23519
 
KMAC, Vivus decline is in part also due to market decline.Small caps
are down.Certainly PFE exaggerations helped ( Niagara ad ).However IMHO this will soon turn around.FDA has already clipped the Niagara Ad. People in the know are even as we speak picking up Vivus shares from those that want to sell them cheap.In a market correction many sell and can't see around the corner.
IMHO those that are not in margin should hold onto Vivus because target price by April 98 remains $ 50 and you will never be able to buy it this cheap again.
Folks like Leo have been working hard to bring the stock down because there are still 9 mill !! shorted shares out there!! Let us not forget the prize.Leo and his partner-in-short-Braddy ( I like that ),will
have to cover sooner or later.Their costs are higher now because of margin interest,and perhaps that is why Leo is screaming.Perhaps there are a lot of folks working with a Major Employer, who shall remain nameless, gg, ( are Leo and Braddy part of that group? gg ) who decided last April to short Vivus because of unreal expectations from Viagra.After seeing Vivus stedily climbing they are now panicking because when UK approval comes ( any day now ) the game is over.With new Vivus production soon to come, Bingo, great eps--->short squeeze.
What makes this theory appealing to me is that the short crowd seems to act in Unison, like they are all run out of a small, but strong, group of people!!! gg.Well this is just theory but I have always smelled a rat right from the Barron's article when Padma Nathan
" forgot ? " gg what he had just written in the New Eng Jour of Med 3 months earlier;bizarre.

TA
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