One major difference. 1999-2000 (MC 880 mil) Aria was extremely overvalued. 2011 (MC 770 mil) Aria is actually cheap if you ask me. Just need to clear this one big hurdle.
BTW, I don't think our big brothers issues are helping us much today. Mrk failure spill over imo
ARIA has also increased in VALUE dramatically, the progress in their research and drugs are worth more than a Billion USD$. So we are still UNDERVALUED at current price. Have a nice night.
Ariad's current market cap is ~$700,000,000.
Back in 2000, Ariad had 22,000,000 shares outstanding. At $40/share, ARIA would have been valued at $880,000,000.
So, basically, in 2011, Ariad at $5.25, is very close to 1999-2000 Ariad at $40.