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Biotech / Medical : Biochem Pharma (BCHE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: Aggie who wrote (723)3/11/2000 12:32:00 PM
From: JDN  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 783
 
Dear Aggie: Had I understood the mechanics of how BCHE was marketing their drugs when I bought this stock nearly 2 years ago I never would have. They are as follows: Glaxo handles the marketing/distribution of the successful drugs you are aware of with BCHE. The good part is Glaxo paid them plenty for this right and took over a potential big expense load thus BCHE actually is one of the few who actually make money and have a pretty sound financial condition. The bad news, is that limited forever BCHE's profit potential on THOSE drugs. Now however, BCHE had changed their approach on NEW DRUGS. They are setting up their own marketing and distribution channels and will market alone and keep all the profits to themselves. Because the are now financially sound they should be able to accomplish this. Now, the question is WILL they have outstanding drugs to market. If you believe that they will then it would be foolish for you to sell your BCHE stock after 5 years as in the next year or two BCHE should be performing like the others, maybe even better. If you believe they will have a dry hole then yes its time to leave. JDN



To: Aggie who wrote (723)4/3/2000 2:31:00 AM
From: Manfred Sondermann  Respond to of 783
 
Maybe one of the reasons why BCHE has had such a poor performance over the last year was that
BB Biotech, a Swiss biotech "Fund" company, has sold a large position of their BCHE stake. In mid 1999, this was their second largest position in their portfolio.

Their homepage:
bellevue.ch

BB Biotech are not always the most clever stock guys: for instance they sold their Amgen stake at about
$35 - $40 about one year ago!