Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, biotech company Exelixis
With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Exelixis and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.
Exelixis facts
Headquarters (Founded) | San Francisco (1994) |
Market Cap | $718.4 million |
Industry | Biotechnology |
Trailing-12-Month Revenue | $247.9 million |
Management | Co-Founder/Chairman Dr. Stelios Papadopoulos President/CEO Dr. Michael Morrissey |
Trailing-12-Month Return on Capital | 25.6% |
Cash/Debt | $207.0 million / $182.7 million |
Competitors |
AstraZeneca Genentech GlaxoSmithKline |
Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.
On CAPS, 96% of the 2,644 members who have rated Exelixis believe the stock will outperform the S&P 500 going forward.
Just last week, one of those bulls, All-Star zzlangerhans, tapped the stock's recent pullback as a potentially attractive entry point:
An extremely large combined dilutive and debt financing seems to have scared the pants off Exelixis traders and killed a burgeoning run-up into the cabozantinib PDUFA for medullary thyroid carcinoma in 11/29/12. The financing scares me too and I'm dubious about the long-term commercial prospects of cabozantinib, but the run-up has been very strong in the biopharma bull market of 2012 and I'll take my chances against the forces of dilution.
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