Every day, the sun rises on Wall Street and a plethora of professional analysts wake to issue new opinions on stocks. Here at the Fool, we examine some of these picks -- and the track records of the firms behind them -- so individuals can make better investing decisions.
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In the case of biotech giant Genentech
While even bottom-of-the-barrel Wall Street firms have gone bullish on Genetech recently, the optimism is backed by the vast majority of more than 1,500 investors rating Genentech. Along with cheering the FDA's approval of its Avastin drug, investors have cheered reported progress in development of new uses for its Rituxan compound, which is sold with partner Biogen Idec (Nasdaq: BIIB).
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