1-Star Stocks Poised to Plunge: Infinity Pharmaceuticals?
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, biotechnology company Infinity Pharmaceuticals (NAS: INFI) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Infinity's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Infinityfacts
Headquarters | Cambridge, Mass. |
Market Cap | $213.7 million |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $84.3 million |
Management | CEO Adelene Perkins |
Return on Equity (average, past 3 years) | (35.5%) |
Cash/Debt | $74.6 million / $0 |
Competitors | Bristol-Myers Squibb |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 25% of the 85 members who have rated Infinity believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star zzlangerhans, summed up the bear case for our community:
Infinity, I'm not feeling a comeback here. You used to make a pretty good case as an Energizer Bunny, with more than [$100M] in cash reserves and two distinctive phase II oncology candidates. But that was before a string of failures for retaspimycin, and now saridegib is starting to take the same route. The cash position will be down to about [$65M] when the next quarterly numbers come out in a couple of weeks, and we know you like to raise money long before it's really necessary. And you want a [$190M] market cap for that? Call me back after the dilutive financing when the cap is closer to [$150M] and the share price back under [$6], and we'll talk.
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