Biotech Investors: Please Don't Make This Mistake

Trying to accurately value a biotech stock isn't just difficult -- sometimes it seems downright worthless. After all, how can investors even try to value a company that hasn't booked a dollar in revenue?

In the following video, Brenton Flynn walks through a commonly used method for valuing biotech stocks and offers a word of caution for investors in companies like Arena Pharmaceuticals , Threshold Pharmaceuticals , and Pharmacyclics , which are waiting on lucrative milestone payments.

Is Arena's reward worth the risk?
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