Shares of Cepheid rose 7.5 percent for the five-day trading period ended Tuesday. The trading week was cut short a few hours on Tuesday in advance of the Independence Day holiday in the US.
Cepheid and Becton Dickinson were mentioned in an article in Friday’s edition of The Wall Street Journal focused on new testing methods for antibiotic resistance in hospitals. The firms make the only Food and Drug Administration-cleared molecular-based tests for methicillin-resistant Streptococcus aureus.
Caliper Life Sciences’ shares fell 3.6 percent, leading the three firms that lost value during the week.
Overall, the BCW Index gained 2.6 percent for the tracking period. In comparison, the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 1.8 percent, the Nasdaq climbed 2.8 percent, and the Nasdaq Biotech Index closed up 2.1 percent.
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BioCommerce Week Index of Diversified
Molecular Biology Tool Companies |
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| Company |
Ticker
|
Closing Price
(July 3, 2007) |
Starting Price
(June 26, 2007) |
% change
|
| Affymetrix |
AFFX
|
25.07
|
24.44
|
2.58
|
| Agilent |
A
|
39.68
|
38.40
|
3.33
|
| Applied Biosystems |
ABI
|
30.48
|
30.53
|
-0.16
|
| Beckman |
BEC
|
65.39
|
64.92
|
0.72
|
| Becton Dickinson |
BDX
|
75.06
|
73.90
|
1.57
|
| Bio-Rad |
BIO
|
77.15
|
73.40
|
5.11
|
| Bruker |
BRKR
|
9.15
|
8.99
|
1.78
|
| Caliper |
CALP
|
4.6
|
4.77
|
-3.56
|
| Cepheid |
CPHD
|
14.75
|
13.72
|
7.51
|
| Illumina |
ILMN
|
41.56
|
39.47
|
5.30
|
| Invitrogen |
IVGN
|
74.59
|
73.44
|
1.57
|
| Luminex |
LMNX
|
12.76
|
12.17
|
4.85
|
| MDS |
MDZ
|
20.14
|
20.01
|
0.65
|
| Millipore |
MIL
|
76.56
|
74.43
|
2.86
|
| PerkinElmer |
PKI
|
26.71
|
25.79
|
3.57
|
| Qiagen |
QGEN
|
18.09
|
17.37
|
4.15
|
| Sequenom |
SQNM
|
4.44
|
4.46
|
-0.45
|
| Sigma-Aldrich |
SIAL
|
43.16
|
42.14
|
2.42
|
| Thermo |
TMO
|
53.22
|
51.09
|
4.17
|
| Third Wave |
TWTI
|
5.85
|
5.61
|
4.28
|
| Waters |
WAT
|
60.5
|
59.92
|
0.97
|
| BCW Index Average |
37.09
|
36.14
|
2.63
|
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