Shares of Bruker Biosciences declined 8.1 percent for the week ended Tuesday to lead decliners in the BCW Index. The drop took place mostly on Monday, after the firm announced that it would offer 10.4 million shares of common stock (see Briefs).
GE led gainers for the week with a 6.6 percent rise in share price, followed by Thermo Fisher Scientific, which climbed 3.7 percent.
Overall, the Index closed up .2 percent. Meanwhile, the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 1.3 percent for the tracking period, the Nasdaq fell .1 percent, and the Nasdaq Biotech Index dropped 1 percent.
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BioCommerce Week Index of Diversified
Molecular Biology Tool Companies |
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| Company |
Ticker
|
Current Price
(December 19, 2006) |
Last
Price December 12, 2006) |
% change
|
| Agilent | A |
34.12
|
33.86
|
0.8
|
| Applied Biosystems | ABI |
37.72
|
37.54
|
0.5
|
| Beckman | BEC |
59.91
|
59.38
|
0.9
|
| Bio-Rad | BIO |
81.82
|
84.01
|
-2.6
|
| Bruker | BRKR |
7.33
|
7.98
|
-8.1
|
| GE | GE |
38.01
|
35.64
|
6.6
|
| Invitrogen | IVGN |
56.30
|
57.67
|
-2.4
|
| Millipore | MIL |
68.74
|
68.79
|
-0.1
|
| Molecular Devices | MDCC |
21.87
|
22.53
|
-2.9
|
| PerkinElmer | PKI |
22.21
|
22.26
|
-0.2
|
| Qiagen | QGEN |
15.37
|
14.98
|
2.6
|
| Sigma | SIAL |
78.82
|
77.83
|
1.3
|
| Stratagene | STGN |
7.30
|
7.52
|
-2.9
|
| Thermo | TMO |
46.13
|
44.50
|
3.7
|
| Waters | WAT |
49.73
|
49.39
|
0.7
|
| BCW Index Average |
41.69
|
41.59
|
0.2
|
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