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coronavirus shares

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Postby Bubblesofearth » February 27th, 2020, 9:15 am

RB?

Portfolio of household cleaners (Lysol, Dettox) and OTC medicines.

Any other companies spring to mind?

BoE

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Re: coronavirus shares

#287265

Postby onslow » February 27th, 2020, 10:24 pm

3M/MMM on NYSE - yield is quite high for US based blue chip

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby BobGe » February 28th, 2020, 8:04 am

Bioquell, Novacyt if you want a rollacoaster ride. :-)

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby jackdaww » February 28th, 2020, 8:40 am

batm have developed a covid19 testing kit .

:idea:

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Re: coronavirus shares

#287326

Postby Braziers » February 28th, 2020, 8:49 am

Brown trouser manufacturers?

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby WickedLester » April 21st, 2020, 7:55 am

My experience at ODX where I got very lucky has got me thinking about this whole crisis and its effect on our investing. At the moment I am positioned for a relatively short term disruption. I have been buying shares in companies that have strong balance sheets and net cash and should be well placed to ride out 6 months or so of disruption and will hopefully return to some sort of normality thereafter and thus look cheap at today's prices.

But am I correct in doing this? Is Coronavirus the new normal? Will the pubs open before Christmas and we'll all be back at work in a months time or should we be preparing for years of disruption?

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby Pipsmum » April 30th, 2020, 6:13 pm

One idea is dipping in and out of trackers catching the zig zags for short term trader profit. Transfer tax is on many shares making those less easy to dip in and out as happily as it lops off much of the profits. It does involves a lot of work, following trends and graph reading for not that much reward, and there is always more risk of course, but still better than doing nothing to fill the empty coffers. Long term investments are good price wise, but without divis, then the money isn't doing any donkey work. So zig zag harvesting is one way.

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby kiloran » April 30th, 2020, 8:08 pm

Pipsmum wrote:One idea is dipping in and out of trackers catching the zig zags for short term trader profit. Transfer tax is on many shares making those less easy to dip in and out as happily as it lops off much of the profits. It does involves a lot of work, following trends and graph reading for not that much reward, and there is always more risk of course, but still better than doing nothing to fill the empty coffers. Long term investments are good price wise, but without divis, then the money isn't doing any donkey work. So zig zag harvesting is one way.

But how do you ensure that the market doesn't zig while you zag?

--kiloran

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby flyer61 » May 1st, 2020, 8:56 am

Interestingly I Zigged yesterday morning by selling all my VMID and VWRL. Always feels funny pressing the button on what are life changing amounts of money. Need to get back in though.

It was purely a reaction to Wall Street having been up 5 of the last 6 days and a realisation that it was within 15ish% of it's all time highs. That is bonkers given what the real world is experiencing.

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby SalvorHardin » May 1st, 2020, 9:23 am

Gilead Sciences

Gilead is an American biopharmaceutical company, specialising in antiviral drugs, which until recently was best known for its treatments for HIV and Hepatitis. Nowadays it's in the news for "Remdesivir", which as I type this is the only drug that has been shown to have some effect in approved clinical trials on the Wuhan Coronavirus. From an American study, published on April 29th.

"Hospitalized patients with advanced COVID-19 and lung involvement who received remdesivir recovered faster than similar patients who received placebo, according to a preliminary data analysis from a randomized, controlled trial involving 1063 patients, which began on February 21."

https://www.niaid.nih.gov/news-events/nih-clinical-trial-shows-remdesivir-accelerates-recovery-advanced-covid-19

"The U.S. National Institutes of Health on Wednesday said preliminary results from its trial of remdesivir showed that COVID-19 patients given the drug recovered 31% faster than those given a placebo."

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gilead-sciences-results/gilead-to-work-with-partners-to-ramp-up-production-of-potential-coronavirus-treatment-idUSKBN22C3PO

As the reports say, Remdesivir is not a "magic bullet" but it is a good to start. If it improves the speed with which patients recover then this eases the pressure on hospitals and gives them the capacity to cope with more cases. Currently Remdesivir has to be administered intravenously, though the company is working on a tablet. If Remdesivir ends up being used worldwide, Gilead doesn't have the manufacturing capacity so it has said that it will licence it to other companies who can then manufacture it.

Gilead's shares currently yield 3.2% (2.7% after American withholding tax of 15%). First quarter results were published yesterday along with it declaring an unchanged dividend. Historic price-earnings ratio of 13.4, consensus forecast P/E for 2020 is 20.

Gilead is currently my second largest shareholding. Until a couple of months ago I didn't own any shares, though it had been on my watchlist for several years. I reckon that it's a decent buy even without Remdesivir due to its existing drugs and development pipeline.

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby Pipsmum » May 1st, 2020, 2:07 pm

kiloran wrote:But how do you ensure that the market doesn't zig while you zag?

--kiloran


It does sometimes.

Careful graph reading for catching upward trends and signs of change, then chasing up underneath with a tight stop. Doesn't always go to plan but the stop losses prevent big holes. Or by setting catch nets above and below sideways zig zags. As everything is rock bottom then down is further down and upwards very volatile.

Watch one for a while and see in theory, or practice on a test site. Can be lucrative when it's right, but very damaging when it's wrong. The trend is your friend, so stay with the flow and don't swim upstream.

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby Pipsmum » May 15th, 2020, 1:32 pm

Some pharmaceuticals that are interesting .

ORPH - Open Orphan. Currently @12.88p and have an inked contract for covid tests.

https://www.londonstockexchange.com/exc ... XASQ1.html

Haven't looked at these yet but

ABT - Abbott labs and ROG - Roche also are supposedly providing tests.

I presume this will be lucrative for some or all of them.

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Re: coronavirus shares

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Postby Pipsmum » May 18th, 2020, 3:48 pm

ORPH Open Orphan having a nice run today on the covid vaccine news. 15p now. I saw an estimate saying it could be 30p. Wait for a pullback I suppose. DYOR


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