BioPharma

How to start investing on Biopharma stocks | Quick Guide

[This is Part 1 of a series of posts about Investing in Biopharma/BioTech companies]

You have already heard and read comments about it, however you don’t know exactly where to start … we all have had the same feeling.

Biopharma and Biotech companies are not very accessible stocks to follow-up, in comparison with other huge industries which are everyday on the newspapers, such as: Consumer Goods (Nike, Unilever, P&G), Technology (Facebook, Google, Oracle) and so on. On the contrary, these stocks seem to be ‘hidden’ and only available to medical experts or the wall street guys.


Since that’s not true, here are some advises to speed up your searches and leverage your decision-making in order to get the most of your future Biopharma/Biotech investments.

Decide your Approach

First of all, take a view from 20,000 feet and choose your approach based on: (1) Time you’ll dedicate (2) Effort you’re able to commit, and (3) Level of knowledge. Whichever approach you choose, you’ll want to monitor your portfolio to ensure it’s on track with your goals.

Where to get information

As much as data you gather, the fastest you will start visualizing the type of disease and the profile of the pharma where you think it will worth to start investing.

I suggest you to make your own analysis – this part it will take the majority of the time, but believe me that is better than trust on ‘gurus’ and biased Analysts – so, take all the information available in the IR (Investor Relations) website and focus on the key events; News, Official announcements, Board changes… and real numbers, Financial and Incomes statements and Balance sheet.

“Don’t boil the ocean, once you have an idea of the company targets and vision, check the Pipeline and ongoing Clinical Trials, this is gonna be strongly linked to the future Earning Potential”


The most self-explanatory and concise information about the drug development process that I’ve ever seen is available in the Roche Youtube channel: 

Roche drug development process

Last but not least, there are some excellent online-tools where all this info has been collected and you can take advantage of it. A good example is Finviz where the data is shown in a quick and tidy manner.

Detail of Innovate Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. on Finviz.com

Start before you feel ready

 If you’re working on something important, then you’ll never feel ready. A side effect of doing challenging work is that you’re pulled by excitement and pushed by confusion at the same time

James Clear “Atomic habits” 

In order to demonstrate you can break with the above quotation, I recommend you to start right now researching about the following interesting pharma list of Nasdaq Penny Stocks:

 Innovate Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. (INNT), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARWR), ArQule, Inc. (ARQL), Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. (XENE), Endocyte, Inc. (ECYT), Madrigal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (MDGL), InVivo Therapeutics Holdings Corp. (NVIV), OHR Pharmaceutical, Inc. (OHRP), Edge Therapeutics, Inc. (EDGE), Aytu BioScience, Inc. (AYTU), Auris Medical Holding AG (EARS). 

Stay Safe Stay Informed

In conclusion, stay tune and try to learn from the experience, below a bunch of useful websites that you will probably need.

Enjoy!

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