Why Coronado Biosciences 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, biotechnology company Coronado Biosciences has received a distressing two-star ranking.
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Coronado and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Coronado facts
Headquarters (founded) | Burlington, Mass. (2006) |
Market Cap | $295.6 million |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Trailing-12-Month EBITDA | (26.1%) |
Management | Chairman/CEO Harlan Weisman |
Return on Capital (average, past 3 years) | (67.4%) |
Cash/Debt | $40.2 million / $14.2 million |
Competitors | Abbott Labs |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 15% of the 20 members who have rated Coronado believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just yesterday, one of those Fools, All-Star zzlangerhans, succinctly summed up the Coronado bear case for our community:
Whipworm eggs to treat autoimmune disease might sound completely reasonable to some people, but I see it as farfetched to the border of insanity. If you wonder why high level executives and scientists would spend years pursuing a completely irrational scientific endeavor, my answer would be that I don't know but I see it happen all the time. The fact that Coronado management is confident does not make me confident. Pull out all the pretty epidemiologically colored world maps you want, I will snarf my corn flakes if I open up my watchlist one morning and find out this works. Topline results from the TRUST-1 phase II trial of the magic beans in ulcerative colitis are expected in the second half of 2013, so we don't have too long to wait.
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