Shares of Sequenom rose 23 percent for the five-day trading period ended Tuesday to lead all gainers in the BCW Index. The firm’s shares jumped 16 percent on Tuesday alone after the firm announced that it had licensed a next-generation sequencing technology from Harvard University (see Briefs).
The shares of only eight firms in the Index fell for the tracking period. Illumina led decliners with a 1.9 percent drop.
Overall, the Index gained 1.08 percent, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average ticked up .3 percent; the Nasdaq rose 1.2 percent; and the Nasdaq Biotech Index gained .6 percent for the week.
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BioCommerce Week Index of Diversified
Molecular Biology Tool Companies |
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| Company |
Ticker
|
Closing Price
(Sept. 25, 2007) |
Starting Price
(Sept. 18, 2007) |
% change
|
| Affymetrix |
AFFX
|
24.74
|
24
|
3.08
|
| Agilent |
A
|
36.77
|
37.2
|
-1.16
|
| Applied Biosystems |
ABI
|
34.27
|
33.95
|
0.94
|
| Beckman |
BEC
|
72.76
|
71.28
|
2.08
|
| Becton Dickinson |
BDX
|
81.98
|
79.25
|
3.44
|
| Bio-Rad |
BIO
|
83.5
|
84.48
|
-1.16
|
| Bruker |
BRKR
|
8.87
|
8.51
|
4.23
|
| Caliper |
CALP
|
5.59
|
5.62
|
-0.53
|
| Cepheid |
CPHD
|
21.24
|
20.83
|
1.97
|
| Illumina |
ILMN
|
52.46
|
53.47
|
-1.89
|
| Invitrogen |
IVGN
|
83.27
|
81.5
|
2.17
|
| Luminex |
LMNX
|
15.71
|
15.59
|
0.77
|
| MDS |
MDZ
|
21.14
|
21.48
|
-1.58
|
| Millipore |
MIL
|
76.1
|
76.53
|
-0.56
|
| PerkinElmer |
PKI
|
28.49
|
28.59
|
-0.35
|
| Qiagen |
QGEN
|
18.18
|
17.09
|
6.38
|
| Sequenom |
SQNM
|
6.15
|
5.00
|
23.00
|
| Sigma-Aldrich |
SIAL
|
47.85
|
46.74
|
2.37
|
| Thermo |
TMO
|
57.2
|
57.51
|
-0.54
|
| Third Wave |
TWTI
|
9.1
|
8.43
|
7.95
|
| Waters |
WAT
|
67.28
|
66.46
|
1.23
|
| BCW Index Average |
40.60
|
40.17
|
1.08
|
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