Aratana Therapeutics Inc (fka PETX)

[biotech_researcher]

Terry Hallinan, I expect you probably have a academia background as I don’t sense your engagement in business metrics or results. That certainly is commendable, but the stock market typically better awards companies with measurable results. At this stage in their growth, PETX should be growing revenues at a much higher rate (30-50% q over q )as it is from a very low base. I think it will get there but Mr Market expected more. And there’s that pesky detail that they have a pretty good slug of debt that they are paying on.

You mentioned a individual that I had forgot about from many years ago. P. Frost. In Miami, P. was recognized as one of the biggest crooks to run a biotech company in the SE US. That company was Ivax. Check out the stories from 20-30 years ago. And more recently, here is a recent story about P. that shows nothing has changed..

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflorida/news/2017/08/10/billionaire-phillip-frost-defends-his-biotech-firm.html