Shares in Bruker BioSciences dropped 7.2 percent for the five-day trading week ended Tuesday. It was the second week in a row that the firm’s shares fell sharply. Last week, Bruker’s shares declined 17.8 percent.
However, Bruker did not lead decliners in the BCW Index this week. Shares of Caliper Life Sciences dropped 9.9 percent following the release of its first-quarter results (see related article). Shares of Third Wave Technologies fell 6.2 percent after it posted a decline in revenue (see related article).
Invitrogen led gainers for the week with a 6.6 percent rise in its share price.
Overall, the Index was up 1.1 percent for the tracking period. In comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 1.3 percent, the Nasdaq gained 1.6 percent, and the Nasdaq Biotech Index edged up .1 percent.
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BioCommerce Week Index of Diversified
Molecular Biology Tool Companies |
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| Company |
Ticker
|
Closing Price
(May 8, 2007) |
Starting Price
(May 1, 2007) |
% change
|
| Affymetrix |
AFFX
|
26.12
|
25.9
|
0.85
|
| Agilent |
A
|
37.34
|
35.99
|
3.75
|
| Applied Biosystems |
ABI
|
29.67
|
31.11
|
-4.63
|
| Beckman |
BEC
|
64.58
|
63.32
|
1.99
|
| Becton Dickinson |
BDX
|
79.28
|
79.63
|
-0.44
|
| Bio-Rad |
BIO
|
69.08
|
70.66
|
-2.24
|
| Bruker |
BRKR
|
8.51
|
9.17
|
-7.20
|
| Caliper |
CALP
|
4.93
|
5.47
|
-9.87
|
| Cepheid |
CPHD
|
11.79
|
11.34
|
3.97
|
| Illumina |
ILMN
|
33.32
|
32.69
|
1.93
|
| Invitrogen |
IVGN
|
69.86
|
65.87
|
6.06
|
| Luminex |
LMNX
|
13.72
|
13.75
|
-0.22
|
| MDS |
MDZ
|
19.25
|
19.25
|
0.00
|
| Millipore |
MIL
|
77.24
|
73.88
|
4.55
|
| PerkinElmer |
PKI
|
25.19
|
24.31
|
3.62
|
| Qiagen |
QGEN
|
17.44
|
17.68
|
-1.36
|
| Sequenom |
SQNM
|
3.55
|
3.56
|
-0.28
|
| Sigma-Aldrich |
SIAL
|
42.81
|
42.29
|
1.23
|
| Stratagene |
STGN
|
10.77
|
10.78
|
-0.09
|
| Thermo |
TMO
|
52.35
|
52.34
|
0.02
|
| Third Wave |
TWTI
|
4.99
|
5.32
|
-6.20
|
| Waters |
WAT
|
60.1
|
59.41
|
1.16
|
| BCW Index Average |
34.63
|
34.26
|
1.08
|
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