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Cepheid, Bruker, and Qiagen Shares All Rise in Double Digits

Oct 31, 2007

The stocks of Cepheid, Bruker BioSciences, and Qiagen all gained more than 10 percent for the five-day trading period ended Tuesday.
 
Cepheid led all gainers in the BCW Index for the week with a 12.6 percent rise in its shares. The firm is due to report its third-quarter results on Nov. 1.
 
Bruker BioSciences shares bumped up 11.6 percent after the firm posted strong revenue and profit gains earlier this week. Shares of Qiagen hit a new 52-week high of $23.65 on Tuesday before closing at $23.55, up 11.1 percent for the tracking period.
 
Illumina led all declining shares in the Index with a drop of 10.3 percent for the week. Shares of Affymetrix, which filed additional patent infringement suits against Illumina last week (see Briefs), fell 9.2 percent.
 
Overall, the Index declined .8 percent. The Dow Jones Industrial Average gained .8 percent for the tracking period, while the Nasdaq rose .6 percent, and the Nasdaq Biotech Index dropped .3 percent.
 
 


BioCommerce Week Index of Diversified
Molecular Biology Tool Companies
Company
Ticker
Current Price
(October 30, 2007)
Last
Price
(October 23, 2007)
% change
Affymetrix
AFFX
 24.80 27.31 -9.19
Agilent
A
 35.86 37.33 -3.94
Applied Biosystems
ABI
 36.01 35.22 2.24
Beckman
BEC
 70.14 73.86 -5.04
Becton Dickinson
BDX
 83.44 81.77 2.04
Bio-Rad
BIO
 95.36 95.07 0.31
Bruker
BRKR
 10.17 9.11 11.64
Caliper
CALP
 5.85 5.85 0.00
Cepheid
CPHD
 26.07 23.15 12.61
Illumina
ILMN
 55.93 62.38 -10.34
Invitrogen
IVGN
 83.07 84.30 -1.46
Luminex
LMNZ
16.54 16.33 1.29
MDS
MDZ
22.14 21.96 0.82
Millipore
MIL
74.80 74.50 0.40
PerkinElmer
PKI
 27.83 29.50 -5.66
Qiagen
QGEN
 23.55 21.20 11.08
Sequenom
SQNM
 9.67 10.58 -8.60
Sigma-Aldrich
SIAL
 50.95 50.11 1.68
Thermo
TMO
 58.13 59.51 -2.32
Third Wave
TWTI
 9.43 9.59 -1.67
Waters
WAT
 75.22 73.92 1.76
BCW Index Average 42.62 42.98 -0.84
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