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reasons to why Dr Phil is doing this:
1) 4KScore will revolutionize the industry of disease detection with myriads of application detections coming down the stream given time
2) Rayaldy FDA approval will compliment this device and take the vitamin D deficiency industry by storm
3)the good Dr. is basically adopting a personal poison pill to any black knight takeover at pre mature stock levels
4)the shorts will be jumping ship in lieu of his actions or get severely toasted thus catapulting the stock up on much much higher valuations and I do emphasize the word much.Those 14.00 June calls that are in great demand are signifying covering action upon those that are short
5)Dr. Frost can make a an offer for the company at a huge premium to the existing share price thus exuding great pressure on the share price to climb the ladder up.
He might decide to then pull that offer or entertain other offers creating a bidding war.
6)the pipeline is getting full of pleasant surprises and this should act as an catalyst to generate great investor interest in this Cramer beloved speculative stock that will be coming into its own on its own merits.
my take is, after yesterdays prognosis, we will sail to the 6.20 area unabated and hit that line of resistance.
I believe it will be short lived as that line will eventually get penetrated and on up to the 6.50 area in relative short order. jmho.
sorry for my misunderstanding of the Express script thingy, we hit an important inflection point on the charts today with RAD, a close above 5.78 signifies clear sailing on the charts, we might just have a significant move in the offering , maybe not the next two sessions, but next week is my guess.I bought back half a position I dumped a few weeks ago.
my belief is that the Chinese will dictate.
My case and point with the China syndrome,
BEIJING/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - China's gold consumption jumped 41 percent in 2013 to exceed 1,000 tonnes for the first time, an industry body said on Monday, as a sharp slide in prices attracted buyers for jewellery and bullion.
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The demand surge has helped China become the No. 1 gold consumer and should support prices, which took a hit last year from expectations of a tapering of commodities-friendly economic stimulus by the U.S. Federal Reserve and a drop in demand in the other major buyer India.
Gold consumption in China grew to 1,176.40 tonnes last year, with jewellery demand climbing 43 percent to 716.50 tonnes and bullion demand soaring 57 percent to 375.73 tonnes, the China Gold Association said on its website.
Chinese demand hit a record as gold prices fell for the first time in 13 years amid an improving global economy and a rally in equities. Prices tumbled 28 percent in 2013.
"The sharply lower prices attracted a lot of Chinese consumers looking for bargains," said Chen Min, an analyst at Jinrui Futures in Shenzhen.
"Gold will continue to be an attractive investment in China in the near term as prices look steady near $1,200 an ounce," Chen said.
Data last month showed that China's 2013 gold imports from Hong Kong more than doubled from the previous year to reach a record 1,158.162 tonnes.
Data from the industry association also showed that China's gold output in 2013 rose 6.2 percent from the previous year to a record high 428.163 tonnes, making the country the world's biggest producer for a seventh straight year.
China's gold consumption figures do not include demand from the central bank, whose gold reserves stand at 33.89 million ounces (1,054 tonnes), unchanged since April 2009, according to the latest figures on the central bank's website.
China last announced a rise in its gold reserves in April 2009 and has not revised the figure since, though there had been recent market speculation that the bank had been accumulating gold reserves and would announce a new figure.
China's foreign exchange reserves, the world's largest, rose to $3.82 trillion at the end of 2013.
my guess is that this lawsuit filed against them will have a deleterious affect on share price when the gavel comes down taking away from earnings. This can't be good utilizing the Express Scripts when you don't have a proprietary right to do so.jmo.
with the Chinese siphoning away all the gold off the markets, building hyper super sonic undetectable by radar missiles, who do you think will ultimately control the masters of spin?
You go lend out all your gold many times over, no different than the toxic CDO boutique mortgage contagion, fiat currencies around the world will plummet and the true backing of currency will then prevail by those that hoard it and smartly accumulate it.
Notice how GG climbs the wall of worry as these markets continually creep up with a huge wall of uncertainty?People are silently hedging there portfolios with premium gold producers.
however, the masters of spin will relate it to the weather factor, eventually they'll wear this theme out.
well, wala, just what the Dr. ordered, chitty report.
my guess is we are one chitty jobs reports away from another step down these markets.
I'm being cautious in here.Mostly into cash.
Just one bad piece of news and this market will continue is way down to test that 200mda on the S&P.
Buying back company stock like Apple did on this correction isn't really how you reward your shareholders signifying weakness on corporate revenues and lack of new product. jmho
the action I've been interpreting is action solely predicated upon hedging gold covering long stock positions.
When this changes, and it will in due course, the herd will return that took gold to 1700 for various other reasons.
GG is climbing a wall of worry and a state of denial. Higher highs and higher lows on the charts. Nice and slow without any fan fare and CNBC diabolic pontificating grade two diatribes about our beloved.
We are in an investment that investors love to hate the most which is fine with me.
John CM, that picture that your procure with that beautiful bay I will be at in two short weeks.
That is Simpsons Bay St. M's nes't pas?
thank you for your kind welcoming, I'll allude to this scenario which I believe that is the most important inflection point that most will not adhere to while being lulled to sleep by the pontificating bullish MM's./ commissionaries
http://goldscents.blogspot.ca/
Bob,
I'm back in this because its the sector that investors love to hate the most.
It has the most upside.
bb bands???... be careful..in a down channel
http://www.barchart.com/chart.php?sym=OPK&style=classic&submitted=1&ov1=029
nobody will be getting the gains like they did pre 14, unless you hit a homerun in a bio that comes up big with a cure.
RAD will not be on tap for 2013 gains. I'm looking for some nice surprises in there next earnings announcement, minus a lawsuit stealing away from earnings, add into a good flu season to stoke the fire, we'll see a run up the charts into the 6.50-7.00 area and possibly more down the line this year.
The consolidation period is very healthy and almost over extended, but, I believe patience will be rewarded as managements goals continually get met.
breakout day on tap
watched the media coverage expose on Frost /Opko,
same ole same ole stuff, other than Dr. is looking rather old hence he brings Steve Rubin/lawyer into the fold on these exposes possibly handing him the torch upon any health issues or sudden death.
Did pump his own portfolio with the Berkshire Hathaway snippet which is so smug and so novel.
Oh, he did showed us a slide for the 4k score which won't be unveiled well into Apr. or May, sorry Steve Mar 31st date you alluded to was far too specific.
Dr. seems to be working overtime pumping up his OPKO company. Hope it works out well in the interim because I think we are dead in the water until the spring time.
Might sell off another one of his investments to help goose the earnings next report.
LOL...... 2wilson still looking for the volleyball..lol
Investors have to realize that they"MUST" do there own D&D on a stock without succumbing to the noise created in these articles from someone they haven't the faintest idea who in the hell they are and what there hidden agenda's are.
After markets can be so skewed and covertly manipulated one way or another on scant volumes, by those that have the ability to trade after hours and post damaging overviews, on the same day they go short right at the markets closing on stocks that have had run away gap activity and seem ripe for the plucking.
You have to beware and on guard of these imposters that infiltrate with hidden agendas that screw you around with your hard earned money. They can rank right up there with Al Queda.
now that was a great SA post articulating the ramifications of PLUG's managerial prowess taking this company forward inducing increase of revenue streams with basically a power point in short form, the authenticity of merits of the up and comer moving mountains in there arena.
I'll view this hopeful redistribution of shares/weak hands to strong hands period to add on to my holding.Love the risks to reward
factor in companies that can become trend setters and carve there own niches.
One can have a few of these in there portfolio and tuck them away for safe keeping, and just hit one huge home run with just one of them and retire early in life.
contrary to what anybody says, one more day in the green and this stock will be scaling the mountain with ease.We will need a day of reconfirmation that the down channel that was penetrated yesterday was not a head fake.I will take heed to the charts rather than succumb to all the noise.We'll see in due course.I personally like the fact that I can track and trade my stocks in the air rather than second guess specifically/pre boarding, on earnings announcements when I'm in the air without connectivity etc.
I'll be able to do research on my stocks while I'm in the air and one good trade will pay for my annual subscription with ease.You do the math......
if we confirm today, we have clear sailing all the way up to near 35.00 imho.
http://www.finviz.com/quote.ashx?t=gogo
The industrial output figures that come out Monday will be the catalyst for this stock, one way or another.
My bet is that steady growth will be the theme as America repatriates manufacturing back home into there own back yards.
Interestingly the P$F chart is depicting an eventual target of 59.00.
Nice upside potential with a pretty safe stock that has limited risk aversion.
I want to make one pointantly clear, Frost accumulated his prowess and background during the most deviously and least SEC scrutinized and oversight period ever in the markets .hence his other druggies he sold.
I don't trust that mofo when he cannot refute the Lakewood defammation of character and insinuations, and Frost cannot come out clean the air on all those intricate investments that lead his stupid sheeple astray.
Frost is no saint, investors are starting to see the light.
Go by this adage, if you always do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got.
His buying of his own stock could be a contagion of cancer.jmho.
Kenneth Lay lulled the investors to sleep.................aka Frost
bought X a week or so ago along with DRYS that has to ship the iron ore to produce the stuff.
Both working out rather well.Maybe a bit behind the curve, but, with global economic expansion, the world needs stuff that if dropped on your foot, it will indeed hurt.Steel, ore, coal, aluminum etc.
you can basically say that about any stock being the seasonality factor.
This stock is only two and a half yrs. old so to me, your thesis really doesn't hold any water. Just saying.....
This move is for real when its doing 5 times the daily ave. of volume.Its getting some notice and when one reads about its future they seem to be liking it.
one of the ways I see it, it was a 34.00 stock not long ago and there must be a pile of shorts wagering against there proprietary bio-fuels technology.
With Big oil behind the company, that wager can sour very rapidly once the snowball goes down that "short" hill.
I was on the winning end years ago when this happened to Crown Cork and Seal, the gains were enormous as the short covering rally ensued relentlessly seemingly without end. Being short can have an unruly margin clerk knocking at your door demanding what isn't supposed to be yours in the first place.Margin is a very dirty word and can cause you many a sleepless night.
As the saying goes: "He who plays with what isn't his'n, pays the price or goes to prison."
My gut impression/ and I moved to the sidelines, with that announcement basically said, if you read between the lines, and I was not the only one taking this stance by Tesaro's haircut in share price, that' Rolapitant is "NO" slamdunk with the FDA. They said they will still proceed in approval, "BUT" and that's a big word that nobody likes, they missed on one entity going forward that could be a stumbling block that might lead to further testing/delays or an outright no by the FDA.
Uncertainty in the drug adoption business is what drives investors nuts and this is no exception . My guess is if it get ok'ed next Q., you'll see both stocks tack on goodly gains, but temporarily it just adds to a shroud of uncertainty and hence the skittishness in its investors.OPKO's road sure isn't void of potholes! lol good luck all.
Tom, isn't that refreshing?
No hype and BS. here and the stock is running silent and deep like a nuclear sub.
I say, he who knows doesn't tell, he who doesn't know tells all!
This stock is methodically killing the shorts and if you are long, you are reveling in the scenario at play.
I see Cramer must be taking a lot of flack for some of his recos.
He did say one should be buying those stocks that have recently been battered after they have come off there 52 week highs.RAD ranks right up there I believe.
The overwhelming negativity that has brought this stock down after such an amazing run this year should be viewed as a healthy D&C.There was too many specs with a hundred shares infecting these airwaves pontification pie in the sky spew. Now that we've basically flushed them down the drain, its back to business as usual.Nice healthy bounce on Monday and a follow through white candle up Tuesday will signify a new bullish uptrend on its tattered chart.
sold in the 11's and 10's , bought half back in the 8's. Here's hoping.....
Dr. Frost only makes the pieces of the puzzle,only the FDA makes them fit, so don't glorify someone until the proof is in the pudding.
Also, drivel adds to ad nauseum here.
The pressure to deliver on Rolapitant by years end must be growing.
The good Dr.'s credibility is waning with each deadline passing which is of concern to investors.Its under a microscope right now and Dr. Frost is trying in vane to try to stem the bleeding with announcements that are mere reiterations of before. So its all no news, other to say Opko has raised some much needed cash to help pay down the test trails on there lifeline drugs hopes and launching of the 4k score.
The 22 million will get siphoned off rather quickly due to debts surrounding such studies. With the unveiling of the 4k score after March 2014, with the addition of hope of the FDA approval on Rolapitant in the new year, Opko will finally see some of there goals come into fruition.The approval of Rolapitant will like be in the new year because everyone and there dog goes on Xmas vacation after today, so today would have to be the day for that announcement.FDA is usually burdened with drug hopeful approvals by years end and it should really be of no concern to investors that they have to await another month or two for such approval.
investors should be glad we are forging ahead retiring debt and that unfortunate lawsuit that was a drag this Q.
Taking that all away we are looking really good going into 2014 and markets are always looking 6 months ahead so here a goodie that will be adding to our piggy bank announced today!
Rite Aid and GNC Announce Extension of Partnership Through 2019
Business Wire
Rite Aid Corporation 8 minutes ago
CAMP HILL, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
Rite Aid Corporation (RAD), one of the nation’s leading drugstore chains, and GNC (GNC), a leading global specialty retailer of health and wellness products, announced today an agreement which extends and expands their existing partnership through 2019. The agreement enables Rite Aid to add at least 300 additional GNC LiveWell™ store-within-a-store locations inside its stores over the next five years. Rite Aid and GNC have had an exclusive partnership in the chain drug channel since December 1998.
“Rite Aid’s strategic partnership with GNC is a point of differentiation, both in the chain drug industry and with our customers,” said Ken Martindale, Rite Aid president and chief operating officer. “With the extension of our retail agreement with GNC, we will be able to continue bringing our customers the outstanding lineup of highly popular GNC products they trust while delivering on our mission of helping our customers meet their unique health and wellness needs.”
As of Dec. 19, there are more than 2,200 GNC stores-within-a-store operating in Rite Aid stores across the country, including a majority of Rite Aid wellness stores.
“Rite Aid has long been an important part of GNC’s growth strategy, serving as an invaluable partner as we’ve worked to grow our brand,” said Tom Dowd, GNC executive vice president, chief merchandising officer and general manager. “As a leading global specialty retailer of vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplement products, sports nutrition products and diet products, GNC shares Rite Aid’s commitment to improving the health and wellness of its customers. We look forward to working together to bring our successful ‘store-within-a-store’ to more Rite Aid pharmacies over the next five years, making it easier than ever for people to live well.”
Rite Aid Corporation is one of the nation's leading drugstore chains with nearly 4,600 stores in 31 states and the District of Columbia and fiscal 2013 annual revenues of $25.4 billion. Information about Rite Aid, including corporate background and press releases, is available through the company's website at www.riteaid.com.
GNC Holdings, Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, is a leading global specialty retailer of health and wellness products, including vitamins, minerals, and herbal supplement products, sports nutrition products and diet products, and trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GNC." The Company – which is dedicated to helping consumers Live Well – has a diversified, multi-channel business model and derives revenue from product sales through company-owned retail stores, domestic and international franchise activities, third party contract manufacturing, e-commerce and corporate partnerships. GNC's broad and deep product mix, which is focused on high-margin, premium, value-added nutritional products, is sold under GNC proprietary brands, including Mega Men®, Ultra Mega®, Total Lean™, Pro Performance®, Pro Performance® AMP, Beyond Raw®, and under nationally recognized third party brands. As of September 30, 2013, GNC has more than 8,400 locations, of which more than 6,300 retail locations are in the United States (including 984 franchise and 2,206 Rite Aid franchise store-within-a-store locations) and franchise operations in 54 countries (including distribution centers where retail sales are made). Learn more at www.gnc.com.
well, the earnings per share were in line "if" the 18 million dollar lawsuit was not there and the retirement of those convertible notes.
All in all, this is a blip on there radar screen, forward guidance is important and they alluded to a very rosy 2014 going forward.In summary, this is being way overblown and will shake the tree of the low hanging fruit.Say goodbye to the frothe.
I'm hoping we can have a bit of CVS love here with RAD's earnings today. Seems all is rather healthy in this arena. CVS yesterday announced an increase in dividend and share buyback program.
Could this eventually be shades of things to come with RAD?My bet it is a few years down the road......2014 earnings guidance sure should be rozy!
I can't substantiate this, but street rumors have RAD putting up .8 cents a share tomorrow. I would venture to say that if this is indeed true, we'll be testing new highs very very soon.
I don't really want to hear these over optimistic nos., let the company disseminate them, then we go....