Analyst: Victor Sula, Ph.D. Initial Report June 4th, 2009
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MARKET DATA
Share Statistics (04/29/09) Symbol Current price Low/ High 52 weeks Average Volume Market Cap Dil. Shares Outstanding
FY2007
FY2008
% Chg -19.3%
XOMA
Revenues, $ Mn.
84.3
68.0
$0.76
Gross margin
100%
100%
0.0 %
$0.37 –2.40
Operating margin
-3.0%
-56.9%
-53.9%
2,148,230
Net margin
-14.6%
-66.5%
-51.9%
-0.10
-0.34
n/m
$108.17Mn 142.3 Mn
EPS, $
Recommendation XOMA continues to seek opportunities to collaborate and license its novel antibody technologies. The Company’s development successes, Lucentis, Raptiva and Cimzia, indicate the potential of Company’s research team and offer decent chances for another success with XOMA 052. The potential to treat many diseases, including diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, acute gout, systemic juvenile idiopathic arthritis (sJIA), and cardiovascular disease, makes XOMA 052 a blockbuster drug candidate. Accordingly we rate XOMA as a Speculative Buy.
Highlights Recently, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office issued U.S. Patent No. 7,531,166, covering the Company’s flagship, XOMA 052, and other antibodies and antibody fragments with similar binding properties for human interleukin-1 beta (IL-1 beta). XOMA recently completed enrollment in phase 1 trials for XOMA 052 in nearly 100 type 2 diabetes patients. These interim results support the potential for XOMA 052 as a novel anti-inflammatory approach XOMA Limited (Nasdaq: XOMA)
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