Based on the aggregated intelligence of 160,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, biotech company Halozyme Therapeutics (Nasdaq: HALO) has received a distressing two-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Halozyme's business and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Halozyme facts

Headquarters (Founded)

San Diego, Calif. (1998)

Market Cap

$753.0 million

Industry

Biotechnology

Trailing-12-Month Revenue

$13.7 million

Management

CEO Dr. Jonathan Lim
Co-Founder/Chief Scientific Officer Gregory Frost

Return on Capital (Average, Past 3 Years)

(152.2%)

1-Month Return

48%

Competitors

Allergan (NYSE: AGN)
ISTA Pharmaceuticals (Nasdaq: ISTA)
Sigma-Aldrich (Nasdaq: SIAL)

Strategic Partners

Baxter International (NYSE: BAX)
Roche Holding

Highly Rated Biotech Alternatives

Amgen (NYSE: AMGN)
Celgene (Nasdaq: CELG)

Sources: Capital IQ (a division of Standard & Poor's) and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 17% of the 229 members who have rated Halozyme believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward. These bears include cashsage and All-Star zzlangerhans, who is ranked in the top 1% of our community.

Just two days ago, cashsage warned Fools that Halozyme "has a too high valuation compared to its sales potential." Our CAPS member continues: "It is also one of the most loss making companies at least until 2012. Its stock price may fall back to less than $2 as in 2005."

In a pitch from two weeks ago, zzlangerhans addressed Mr. Market's ever-increasing view of the stock as a tasty takeover target:

The most recent reason for [Halozyme's] outperformance is that partner Baxter bought ApaTech, a privately held British manufacturer of biologic products such as bone grafts. The operative word in that sentence is products. Baxter bought a company that makes products that it can sell. Baxter sells products. Claro? Baxter bought ApaTech but that does not mean that Baxter will buy every developmental biotech they have a collaboration with. [Halozyme] is going to have to continue developing its pipeline as an independent company and they will have to generate some meaningful results before anyone will take them to the prom.

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