Stock price when the opinion was issued
A pharmaceutical/biotech company. It has an extremely attractive valuation, dirt cheap, trading at under 11X forward earnings. This has a really good stable of rare disease drugs that are very much untouched in the marketplace. The pharmaceutical sector has been absolutely beaten up and is becoming absolutely compelling. Dividend yield of 0.53%. (Analysts’ price target is £6100.)
(A Top Pick Feb 1/12. Up 2.18%.) Focused on special opportunities in the pharmaceutical world. Got under pressure because there were generics coming in on their key drugs but it turned out the risk wasn’t as threatening as the market had expected. Stock has been rallying lately.