4-Star Stocks Poised to Pop: Exelixis
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, biotech company Exelixis (NAS: EXEL) has earned a respected four-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Exelixis' business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Exelixis facts
Headquarters (Founded) | San Francisco (1994) |
Market Cap | $650 million |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $237 million |
Management | Co-Founder/Chairman Dr. Stelios Papadopoulos |
Trailing-12-Month Return on Capital | 20.1% |
Cash/Debt | $223 million / $210 million |
Competitors | AstraZeneca |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96.5% of the 2,568 members who have rated Exelixis believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
A couple of weeks ago, one of those bulls, aleax, tapped Exelixis as a rather tempting biotech bet:
They have enough money to complete Phase 3 studies for cabozantinib and get FDA approval (cabo is basically all the company's about by now, as they've focused totally on it). The trials so far are extremely positive; getting approval (and moving on to other forms of cancer) will take years, and MIGHT fail (so this is a high-risk position), but the probability of success is good and the prospective returns of such success absolutely breathtaking (definitely a multibagger from today's depressed stock price). It's also pretty uncorrelated from "the market in general", a pleasing rarity in these days of very high correlation among asset classes.
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