Why MAP Pharmaceuticals Is Poised to Plunge
Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, drug developer MAP Pharmaceuticals has received the dreaded one-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at MAP and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
MAPfacts
Headquarters (founded) | Mountain View, Calif. (2003) |
Market Cap | $544.5 million |
Industry | Pharmaceuticals |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $3.6 million |
Management | CEO Timothy Nelson (since 2005) |
Return on Capital (average, past 3 years) | (57.4%) |
Cash/Debt | $114.2 million / $0 |
Competitors | GlaxoSmithKline |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 34% of the 96 members who have rated MAP believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star BlacknGold, succinctly summed up the MAP bear case for our community:
MAP has no revenue and is losing large amounts of money each quarter (four in a row now). Before the recent financing deal it was worth less than $14 million on paper. Even now it's worth less than $60 million, which doesn't support a $540 million market cap.
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