Friday 30 October 2020

Brutal Sell off to end October. A Ghoulish wipe out.


Wreck of a day. Brutal sell off of COVID VACCINE STOCKS. Fully 13 of these stocks lost more than 5% today. The average loss was a brutal 3.6%.  Only five stocks managed to avoid the red ink today.

Adaptive Technologies was the only company with a double digit loss - falling 11%.

 

Thursday 29 October 2020

Strong bounce back day. PDS has 12% gain.


Big bounce back day. Overall average was a gain of 2.9% with 19 stocks registering a gain with 7 falling.

PDS rocked ahead 12% for the biggest gain. Fully seven stocks had high single digit gains:  BioNTech, Moderna, Arcturus, NanTKest, Novavax, Curevac and Vaxart.



 

Wednesday 28 October 2020

Brutal Sell-off - NantKwest falls over 10%



Everything gets a lot cheaper today. COVID VACCINE stocks fall with the res of the market even though the market is said to have crashed because of covid. 

The overall loss on average was 4.6% for one the worst days ever. NanTKwest was the only stock to lose in double digits to lead the way down. Vaxart, Sorrento and GeoVax were at the next level of destruction. 

Heat Biologics, OncoSec and Generex bucked the downdraft with small gains.

  

Tuesday 27 October 2020

Flat Tuesday. Inovio strongest


 

Total and complete flat day. 13 up and 13 down with one unchanged and no change in the overall average.


Inovio had the best day, up over 6% along with Arcturus and IMV which were up over 5%.


GeoVax and Generex lead the way down. The big market value companies did have a positive day.



Monday 26 October 2020

mRNA stocks seriously hit - Moderna survives carnage


Serious down day on a brutal down day for the market as a whole. The average COVID VACCINE STOCK dropped 1.8% today with 20 stocks losing ground and only 7 posting a gain. 

OncoSec dropped 7% to lead the way down. Vaxart, IMV, BioNTech, Novavax and PDSB dropped almost 7%. 

Geovax gained 12.5% along with Generex had a gain of 6% and NanTKwest gained 5%.

 

Sunday 25 October 2020

Bottom Ten drift lower




Little change in the BOTTOM TEN - just a drift lower. Atara Biotech is the only to eke out a gain for the week, moving from a gain of 15% up to 20%.  The losses for the bottom end was less than at the top end.


 

Saturday 24 October 2020

Tough week for the TOP TEN - especially the #1 stock: Novavax.


Down week for COVID VACCINE STOCKS as not one of the TOP TEN posts a positive week. Little GOVX does the least worst. Moderna also relatively strong with only a loss of 13% overall. Novavax had a terrible week. What was a 569% return dropped 87 points to a return of 482%. 

Moderna moved from 7th to 6th place overall and Heat Biologics moved up to third from fourth.

Overall returns fell from 119% to just 102% or the lowest point since the first week of September.

 

Flat day overall to end the week. NanTKwest leads.


A statistical oddity today. For the first time the overall average return was 0. 15 gained while 11 fell with one flat.

Vir Biotech gave back its gains from yesterday, falling almost 7% today.

On the other hand, NanTKwest was the winner with its own 7% gain today, followed by Adaptive Biotech with a 5.5% gain.

 

Thursday 22 October 2020

Solid bounce back day - Vir Biotech leads the way


Strong bounce back day. 20 stocks were up with 7 losing ground. The average stock gained a decent 1.5%.

Vir Biotech lead the way with a 7.2% gain. Heat Biologics was also strong with a gain of almost 6%. 

Moderna had one of its best days of late, up almost 3.5%

 

Wednesday 21 October 2020

CRASH DAY.



Crash Day. Total Blow out down day. 


Average loss amounted to 3.7% on average. Only 3 stocks didn't lose ground.



 

Tuesday 20 October 2020

Flat Day - Sorrento leads the way down with a 4% loss.


Some improvement into the close today, but a flat to down day overall. The average stock lost 0.7%.

17 stocks fell and 9 gained. 

Sorrento lead the way down with a 4% loss which is actually a relatively small loss to be the worst for a particular day. 

Arcturus continues to show strength with another 1.1% gain as the top stock.

 

Monday 19 October 2020

Rough Day for COVID VACCINE STOCKS - Average is a 3% loss


24 of the 27 drop today on a true down day for the market and for COVID VACCINE STOCKS. The average stock dropped a serious 3%.

Generex lead the way down 11%. Vir, Vaxart, NanTKwest and Altimmune lost 7%, 7%, 6% and 6% respectively. Rough day. 

OncoSec is one of the top performers in the group and showed its strength today, bucking the trend by gaining 4%.
 

Sunday 18 October 2020

Virtually zero change in BOTTOM TEN


Not much happening in the BOTTOM TEN. IMV's total return went from 75% down to 64% for the most dramatic move, but it wasn't to change the rankings.


Even with significant volatility throughout the week, things seem to come back to where they started as the week ends.

Saturday 17 October 2020

Flat week overall. Sorrento falls. OncoSec and Arcturus strong



Relatively flat week overall with the total return sitting at 119%, up just 2 points from last week.

However, there were some individual stocks that moved a lot. Sorrento had a dramatic fall from a 418% return to 329%. It was still enough for Sorrento to remain in second place overall, still trailing the mighty Novavax which remained number 1 with a total return of 596%, for a gain of 1% from last week.

The biggest gainer was OncoSec Medical which moved a 154% return up to 186% this week. It moved from 8th overall to 6th. 

Arcrurus had another strong week, moving up to third overall, moving from a 269% return to 298%.

Vaxart was bumped out of the top ten as little GeoVax slid into the 10th spot. Vaxart had a tough week: its return falling from 154% to 112%.

 

Friday 16 October 2020

Relatively flat day, Sorrento tumbles 10%


Relatively flat day with an overall drop of 0.6% on average. There were 16 that gained and 11 that fell. 

Sorrento has been one of the most volatile COVID VACCINE STOCKS, this time volatile to the downside with a drop of almost 11%. On the other hand, Generex gained almost 13%. IMV also had a nice gain of almost 8%. 

Of the higher market value stocks, BioNTech had the best day with a nice 4% gain.

 

Thursday 15 October 2020

Flat Day overall - NanTKwest and Arcturus leads the way


Medium sized COVID VACCINE STOCKS do quite well on an overall flat day. 

17 were up and 10 down with the average stock gaining 0.4%.

NanTKwest, and Arcturus lead the way up with 6% to the upside. Translate Bio, Atara and GeoVax all had 5% gains.

Generex fell over 11% to lead the way south. Vaxart fell almost 9% and IMV fell over 6%.

 

Wednesday 14 October 2020

COVID VACCINE STOCKS crushed! Sorrento leads the way down


COVID VACCINE STOCKS buckle downward. Only three managed a positive day (Emergent, Heat Biologics and OncoSec). The overall average was a drop of over 4% for one of the worst days yet.

Sorrento took the biggest hit: down 15.5%. Vaxart and Dynavax also faced double digit losses today. 

Altimmune gave back most of yesterday's gain, falling 10%. BioNTech, iBio, Generex, IMV, VBI all got hammered hard.

 

Tuesday 13 October 2020

Very positive day - Altimmune and Dynavax lead the way. Emergent crushed.


Very strong day for many COVID VACCINE STOCKS. Fully 20 had positive days while seven fell. The average stock gained 2.6%. 

Altimmune lead the way with an over 13% gain. Dynavax also had a double digit gain, up 10%. Several other companies also had particularly strong days: NanTKwst, Vaxart, Novavax, VBI, iBio and PDS Bio.

The outlier was Emergent Bio which got crushed today - one of its worst days all time, falling almost 14%. 

 

Monday 12 October 2020

Translate Bio leads the way on a day with small overall gains


Flat to somewhat positive day for COVID VACCINE STOCKS to start the week. The overall average gain was 0.7% with 15 stocks registering a gain and 11 falling.

The top gainer today was Translate Bio followed by Vir Biotechnology with gains of 7% and 6% respectively.

 

Sunday 11 October 2020

Positive week for the BOTTOM TEN - IMV falls in.


Only Tonix and IMV fall this week. IMV falls into the BOTTOM TEN and NanTKwest rockets out, moving up from a 45% return to 81%.

The top performer in this group is VIR which moved from a 28% loser to a 12% loser.

 

Saturday 10 October 2020

One of best weeks ever for TOP TEN. Arcuturus gains the most. Novavax still class of the league


One of the strongest weeks yet for COVID VACCINE STOCKS. Arcuturus leads the way, with a return since March 1 going from 209% up to 269% and moving up to fourth overall.

The leader remains Novavax with a total return since March 1 of just under 600%, gaining a full 47% from a return of 548% last week.

BioNTech rejoins the top ten, moving from a return of 110% going up 44% to 154%.

The only stock in the top ten to fall this week as Altimmune which fell from a return of 251% down to a return of 234%.

 

Friday 9 October 2020

Flat Day to end the week - NanTKwest leads the way up.


Flat day for COVID VACCINE STOCKS to end the week. The overall average was a drop of 0.4% with 14 stocks falling and 13 up. 

NanTKwest lead the way up way a gain of almost 6%. NanoViricides gained over 5%. On the downside, Altimmune fell 7% to lead. 

 

Thursday 8 October 2020

Flat day for COVID VACCINE STOCKS except GeoVax - up 25%.



About as flat a day as possible with these stocks. Little GeoVax exploded up almost 25%. Without that gain, the overall average for these stocks would have been a loss of 0.7%. With GeoVax the overall average was on the positive side - up to 0.6%.

Thirteen stocks were down, 12 up with two flat. 

 

Wednesday 7 October 2020

COVID VACCINE STOCKS finding strength - up over 3% on average.




A very good day for COVID VACCINE STOCKS. They rocketed up 3.1% on average with 23 of 27 posting a gain. 

NantKwest which has hovered in and out of the bottom ten rocketed up the most by 11.5%.  Sorrento, Arcturus, VBI and GeoVax all had particularly strong days.

Moderna is edging closing to a market cap of $30B, getting up over $28.5B for the first time since the summer.

 

Tuesday 6 October 2020

Five stocks had gains of over 5% - but overall the stocks were down.


Five COVID VACCINE STOCKS did very well:  Curevac lead the way followed by PDS Bio, Vir, BioNTech and Emergent Bio all had gains of over 5%. A total of 10 had gains today as 17 fell.

Overall, the stocks lost less than 0.5% on average. OncoSec had the poorest performance: down 4%. 

 

Monday 5 October 2020

One of best day ever for COVID VACCINE STOCKS - 5.4% return on average


One of the top best ever COVID VACCINE STOCKS' days. The stocks went up an average of 5.4%. 22 were up and five were down on the day.

Vir took the lead with an amazing 17% gain followed by Arcturus, Translate Bio and NanTKwest all with double digit gains.  

BioNTech, OncoSec, VBI, Dynavax, Altimmune, Emergent Bio and Curevac all had great days with a greater than 5% return.

Sunday 4 October 2020

Little Change in BOTTOM TEN COVID VACCINE STOCKS





Only two stocks manage a gain, CVAC (up 6%) and ATRA (up 8%), in the Bottom Ten. GNBT and NNVC were flat.

It was a relatively flat week, with DVAX, the biggest loser giving up 7%.

 

Saturday 3 October 2020

Only Sorrento and Arcturus manage a gain in the Top Ten



COVID VACCINE STOCKS have a rough week. Only two of the top ten managed a gain this week:  Sorrento and Arcturus. 

The total return since March 1 fell from 117% down to 107%.

 

Friday 2 October 2020

COVID VACCINE STOCKS are flat to the end the week - down 0.8% on average.



On the day President Trump and the First Lady were diagnosed with the virus, COVID VACCINE STOCKS were flat: falling 0.8% on average. Twice as many were down as moved higher.

The loss would have been much more but for the out-sized gain of little Generex that climbed over 16%.

Little GeoVax fell almost 7%, while Alnylam and Emergent also gave back some recent gains, falling over 5%.

 

Thursday 1 October 2020

BioNTech - leads the way with a 5% gain. COVID VACCINE STOCKS lose 1% on average.


COVID VACCINE STOCKS slide 1% on average to begin the month. Seventeen stocks fall with 10 going up.

BioNTech lead the way with a 5% gain, climbing over $72 for the first time since August. It also climbed over $17 B in market value, leapfrogging Alnylam into second spot among the COVID VACCINE STOCKS.

The poorest performer, Generex, fell over 10% to $.2040.