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Can Synovis Soar Again After Its Pegasus Acquisition?
<>When Synovis Life Technologies (SYNO) (15.72, $181mm market cap) reported in late May, I thought I had let a great opportunity slip away. I had recently added this pure-play in biological materials used in surgery to my watchlist, as it is a member of an elite group of companies in the Med-Tech space with gross margins above 60% and little or no exposure to capital spending. I have written about a couple of others, including Somanetics (SMTS) last week and Volcano (VOLC) earlier this summer. SYNO reported a great quarter, yet again, but it announced that it was going to be hiring salespe...
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Somanetics: Medical Technology Company Worth Monitoring
Somanetics (SMTS) (14.02, $169mm), the tiny manufacturer of a non-invasive patient monitoring system that measures oxygen levels in the brain and other vital organs, made news this week when it filed suit against an even tinier want-to-be competitor, CAS Medical (CASM). I have been amazed at how cheaply SMTS has been trading. Could this patent infringement suit serve as a potential catalyst? <>SMTS, which I own in a portfolio I manage as well as in my Top 20 Model Portfolio, is a neat little company. It sells the INVOS system (In Vivo Optical Spectroscopy), which consists of a monitor (raz...
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Volcano: Stock Looks Ready to Erupt
<>I have spent the past couple of months pursuing a theme that I think makes a lot of sense. I believe that medical device companies that sell a high amount of consumables (relative to capital equipment) will continue to grow strongly despite some recent inventory destocking that may have hurt short-term sales performance. If you check out my holdings, you will see that I own four names that attempt to capture this thesis: C.R Bard (BCR), Somanetics (SMTS), Angiodynamics (ANGO) and Volcano (VOLC). Today, I would like to briefly discuss the investment case for the one I consider the riskie...
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MFI Stock List Additions for Week Ending March 6, 2009
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Here are the latest additions to the MFI stock universe:
- Almost Family Inc. (AFAM)
- The Corporate Executive Board Company (EXBD)
- Dun & Bradstreet Corp. (DNB)
- Expedia Inc. (EXPE)
- Intrepid Potash Inc. (IPI)
- lululemon athletica, Inc. (LULU)
- Medtronic Inc. (MDT)
- Omnicom Group Inc. (OMC)
- Qiao Xing Mobile Communication Co Ltd. (QXM)
- QLT Inc. (QLTI)
- Somanetics Corp. (SMTS)
- SurModics Inc. (SRDX)
To qualify for the list, a stock must appear for the first time in the past six months in the top 100 for any of the following minimum market cap thresholds: $1MM, $5MM, $10MM, $15MM, $20MM, $25MM, $50MM, $75MM, $100MM, ...
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