Engine Capital filed a 13D targeting PDL BioPharm (PDLI) on Wednesday morning, disclosing a 5.28% stake in the Nevada-based healthcare stock. Engine also disclosed it sent a letter to PDLI's board saying the fund "invested in PDLI because of the significant intrinsic value attributable to...
RA Capital has outperformed all other healthcare hedge funds over the past decade, based on 13F holdings. In fact, RA's 30.88% annualized return of it's equal-weighted top 20 long portfolio led all other hedge funds over that period. So, when RA manager Peter Kolchinsky discloses portfolio changes,...
On Friday afternoon, CASI Pharma CEO He Wei-Wu filed a Form 4 disclosing the purchase of nearly $7.9M of CASI stock. The insider bought the shares in a public offering of 20M CASI shares at $1.90. President Larry Zhang also bought 20,153 shares in the secondary offering,...
Baupost Group activist filings are rare events. Seth Klarman, the renowned value investor who heads Baupost, prefers to take passive stakes in companies. Since 2006, Baupost has filed 352 passive 13G filings, and made only 25 activist 13D filings, according to data from WhaleWisdom.com.
Twenty-two minutes after regular market hours closed on July 2, an Orbimed Advisors Form 4 relating to Corvus Pharmaceuticals Inc (CRVS) was posted on the SEC's website. The hedge fund, a 10%+ holder and insider in CRVS, disclosed that between June 27 and July 1 it...
RA Capital Management leads the pack when it comes to health care stock selection. Since 2008, an equal-weight portfolio of the Boston-based hedge fund's top ten 13F positions would have averaged a 37.05% annual return. So, when RA Capital adds to a position, it pays to investigate....
Intra-Cellular Therapies FDA news release on Sept. 10 appeared positive. The FDA informed the company that it will not schedule an Advisory Committee meeting in connection with its review of the company’s new drug application (NDA) for Lumateperone for the treatment of schizophrenia. All good, moving ahead,...
Engine Capital filed a 13D on Cymabay (CBAY) two weeks after the development stage biotech company halted a trial of its leading drug candidate causing it's shares to fall as much as 75%. In a 13D filing Thursday evening, New York-based Engine Capital, L.P....
In the investing world, those with superior information usually make the most money. And possibly no group has better information on public companies – and profitably acts on it – than corporate insiders at small-cap biotech and medical technology companies.