Sell Alert: Half Position Of Prime Medicine

Shares of the Tech Frontiers July recommendation, Prime Medicine (Nasdaq: PRME), are trading at around $6.37 today, a gain of over 100% from our entry price of $3.07 three months ago. As a result, we recommend selling half your position. Prime is making terrific progress advancing its gene-editing platform and we have many reasons for

Hold Shares Of Fortress Biotech

Last week, Fortress Biotech (Nasdaq: FBIO) issued a press release disclosing that the Food And Drug Administration (“FDA”) had issued a Complete Response Letter (“CRL”) for CUTX-101, Fortress’s new drug to treat Menkes disease. A CRL is the FDA’s way of communicating it has decided against approving a new drug application in its current form. 

Opioids, Bankruptcies, And The U.S. Supreme Court

As distressed-debt analysts, we have to keep tabs on the developments with the bankruptcy code. Typically, our most likely case is that the bond issuer will manage to make all the required interest payments and repay the principal at maturity. But not always.

Introducing Porter’s (New And Improved) Permanent Portfolio

Last year, Ported unveiled an approach to investing where you don’t have to trade in and out of positions, where you don’t have to follow the news, and where you don’t even have to worry about the future. Now, he just made it even better.

Sell Alert: Green Plains 2.25% Bond

In the May 9 Distressed Investing report “Cracking The Code,” we recommended purchasing Green Plains’ 2.25% bonds maturing March 15, 2027. We now recommend selling those bonds. In May, when we recommended them, the bonds were trading at $785, which equated to an annual return of just over 16%. We suggested pairing each bond with

Sell Alert: aTyr Pharma

Yesterday, aTyr Pharma (Nasdaq: ATYR) reported that its Phase 3 trial of efzofitimod in pulmonary sarcoidosis failed to meet its primary endpoint. The study’s results were doomed by a much higher-than-expected placebo effect, making it impossible for efzofitimod to attain the statistically significant differentiation relative to placebo needed for the trial’s success. Shares of aTyr

Sell Alert: Half Position Of Shares Of Green Plains

Yesterday, August 27, Green Plains (Nasdaq: GPRE) announced that it had agreed to sell its 120 million gallon per year ethanol plant in Obion, Tennessee, for $190 million. This equates to an impressive valuation of $1.58 per gallon of capacity. Shares of GPRE rose 12% to $11.18 per share following the news. We recommend selling half