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OK I see they have 46 million shares outstanding (shouldn't trust yahoo) so the market cap is in the ~225million US neighborhood. At first I saw they owned 82% of OPLI and saw their market cap and thought it really odd.

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Can-Fite

Market cap is about $26M (97M NIS) see http://www.tase.co.il/TASEEng/General/Company/companyMainData.htm?companyID=001272&subDataType=0&shareID=01094473

how do you think their Psoriasis drug would stack up with Fumarate or if XNPT develops their "better" BG-12?

The first hurdle is beating the current cheap and well known oral drug - methotrexate on safety and efficacy. Then there are the new and advanced oral drugs in development: Pfizer's tofacitinib and CELG’s apremilast.
Fumaderm is very effective but has SE like flushing, nausea, vomiting and diarrhea in 30% of patients which typically limit the treatment period to 4-6 weeks plus it is only approved in the EU and mainly in use in Germany.