Provention Bio Stock Soars on $2.9 Billion Acquisition by Sanofi

Shares of Provention Bio soared Monday after the biopharmaceutical company agreed to be acquired by France’s Sanofi (SNY) for $25 a share, or about $2.9 billion. Provention Bio (ticker: PRVB), which f...

BridgeBio Stock Surges on Dwarfism Drug Data. It’s Bad News for BioMarin.

BridgeBio Pharma stock was soaring after the biopharmaceutical company reported positive results in a Phase two clinical trial for an experimental treatment for achondroplasia, the most common type of...

Novavax Says ‘Substantial Doubt’ Around Its Continuing Operations

Covid-19 vaccine manufacturer Novavax said Tuesday that there is “substantial doubt” about its ability to continue operating through this year. In a quarterly earnings report issued after the market c...

For Nvidia Stock, It’s Game On!

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Crispr Therapeutics: FDA Filing on Sickle Cell Gene Therapy Is Almost Done

An approval filing for a breakthrough treatment of sickle cell disease should be done by March, Crispr Therapeutics said, highlighting the company’s lead in a competitive area of medical research and ...

JNJ Bought Up Biotech Stock MeiraGTx. It Sold Procept BioRobotics.

Johnson & Johnson recently increased an investment in an embattled biotech stock, and slashed a position in a maker of surgical robotics that rocketed last year. Johnson & Johnson (ticker: JNJ...

Gambling on Biotechs—and Pfizer | Barron’s

To the Editor: Pfizer has a lot of good and bad points, as mentioned in your cover story “Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.” (Feb. 3). But the hardest one to deal with for all bio...

Pfizer Is Moving Beyond Covid. Why Its Stock Is a Buy.

Pfizer probably did more than any other company to help the world normalize from the pandemic, and it reaped a financial windfall from its twin Covid-19 franchise—the top-selling vaccine and the leadi...

Eli Lilly and Novo Stock Sold Off. Don’t Blame Their Diet Drugs.

Stock in Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk outperformed last year, largely because of remarkable demand for new drugs that drive weight loss in patients afflicted with diabetes and obesity. Both stocks were ...

Meta, Merck, Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, and More Stock Market Movers

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Pfizer CEO: Covid Infections Will Rise. So Will Paxlovid and Vaccine Sales.

Pfizer executives say Wall Street analysts haven’t understood just how powerful a hit the company’s Covid-19 products will take this year. That’s the explanation the company’s chief financial officer,...

Blackstone Stock Is a Good Investment, Even in a Downbeat Economy

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J&J Reports Earnings Tuesday. What to Expect.

Johnson & Johnson CEO Joaquin Duato’s warning earlier this month that the outlook for 2023 remains uncertain is tempering investor expectations ahead of the company’s earnings reports on Tuesday. ...

CureVac Stock Just Got Upgraded. It’s Now a Competitor in mRNA Vaccines.

CureVac is ready to compete in the big leagues with its vaccines, according to a UBS analyst who says the soaring stock has more room to rise. UBS analyst Eliana Merle upgraded the shares (ticker: CVA...

7 Cheap But Risky Biotech Stocks

Biotech stocks remain depressed, nearly two years into a dip that has seen the SPDR S&P Biotech ETF drop nearly 50%. The other most-watched exchange-traded fund that tracks the biotech sector, the...

Where Are the Stock Market and Economy Headed? Barron’s Roundtable Pros Weigh In.

Bullish or bearish, our 10 panelists help make sense of increasingly complicated market dynamics. Plus: nine stock picks. Jan. 13, 2023 8:40 pm ET The optimist sees bubbles and thinks champagne. The p...

Tanking Biotech Stocks Will Mean a Big Year for Deals. Who Could Benefit.

Nearly two years after biotechnology stocks began to tumble, executives at small and midsize companies in the space are finally accepting that share prices aren’t bouncing back anytime soon. With real...

It’s Pharma Time: Why Merck and Lilly Stock Are Buys, but not Pfizer.

My 2023 biotech outlook calls for continued momentum in name changes. I just need to figure out what the stocks will do. Last year, Respira Technologies became Qnovia. It’s run by a former tobacco exe...

Why Pfizer Is Pulling Back on Research Into Rare Disease, Gene Therapy

Pfizer is planning to pull back on early-stage research into treatments for rare diseases, including the development of new viral-based gene therapies, the company told employees on Thursday afternoon...

Buy Medtronic Stock. Shares of the Dividend Aristocrat Look Attractive.

This article is an excerpt from “Here Are Barron’s 10 Top Stocks for the New Year,” published on Dec. 16, 2023. To see the full list, click here.  Medtronic  (ticker: MDT) is a dividend aristocrat, wi...

Southwest, Tesla, Coinbase, Apple, and More Stock Market Movers Friday

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6 Defensive Healthcare Stocks for 2023

As investors face another uncertain year for public equities, large-cap healthcare stocks remain an attractive defensive play. They offer a shot at insulating capital from the downturn many still expe...

Moderna, Tesla, Lennar, and More Stock Market Movers Wednesday

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Horizon Therapeutics, Coupa Software, Rivian, and More Stock Market Movers

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CVS Wants to Be a Healthcare Provider. So Why Doesn’t It Have Any Doctors?

Late last year, CVS Health CEO Karen Lynch unveiled a new strategy: Rather than remain simply a pit stop for toilet paper and flu shots, CVS stores would become a place that Americans—particularly old...

Buy AbbVie Stock. The Pharma Giant Is Still Worth Owning Even as Humira Fades.

Sometimes, a single worry grows so large that it obscures all the good things happening at the same time. That’s the case with the stock of pharma giant AbbVie whose blockbuster drug Humira faces pate...

Big Pharma Stocks Are Breaking Out. Here Are Some Winners.

Big pharma stocks are trying to break out to new heights. They have reported more-than-satisfactory earnings and are expecting further progress on new pipelines of drugs.   These stocks had been outpe...

Pfizer Stock’s Post-Covid Future Looks Healthy

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Pfizer’s Earnings Are Tuesday. What to Watch.

Pfizer is set to report its earnings on Tuesday, a week and a half after an executive told investors that the company was considering a list price for its Covid-19 vaccine of between $110 and $130 per...

AbbVie Stock Slips as Sales Miss Expectations And Bigger Challenges Await.

Stock in AbbVie slipped after the drug company reported a higher profit than expected, while sales fell short. The revenue shortfall may have reminded investors of a challenge AbbVie (ticker: ABBV) fa...