NovaBay Article - Motley Fool (Read the comments at end)
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January 19, 2012 |
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NovaBay Pharmaceuticals Profile
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This week's pitch :
Over the last six months, NovaBay has been reanimated from the low of 0.7 that followed the abject failure of aganocide NVC-422 in a phase II trial for viral conjunctivitis. The decline was exacerbated by dilutive financing and the general distaste for speculative stocks in the late summer of 2011, and now the company is benefiting from the counterintuitive rush back into the sector. The stock has also felt the bellows effect of Seeking Alpha pumps, an effect which in recent years has proven to be very short-lived (see Zalicus, Cleveland Biolabs, Radient, and Ampion).
These are the reasons others see to be optimistic about NovaBay:
1. A partnership and commercial launch of NeutroPhase in China.
First of all, NeutroPhase is diluted bleach. We've seen how this is working out for Oculus. Second, attempts by Western companies to sell pharmaceuticals in emerging markets in Asia and South America have never amounted to anything in my experience.
2. The company has a partnership with Galderma for NVC-422, who are planning to initiate a phase IIb trial in impetigo in the near future.
A year ago, NovaBay had two large pharmaceutical partners for phase II programs of NVC-422. After the conjunctivitis trial failed, Alcon dropped them like a sack of potatoes. Now they're halfway to having no partners for NVC-422. Furthermore, I've been hearing about the impending initiation of this phase IIb trial for more than a year. If Galderma hasn't kicked it off yet, I have to wonder about their degree of interest in the program.
3. NVC-422 showed a better effect against the adenoviral conjunctivitis subset in the previously mentioned phase II trial and the company is now planning on performing a new phase IIb trial for that indication.
Post-hoc analysis. No statistical significance. Futile.
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Report this Comment On January 19, 2012, at 3:13 PM, my2cents4u wrote:
Avoid this author!
This screed is a classic case of bashing by a short or an investor in one of NBY's competitors.
Why?
1. Not one word on the stock until now when it is being quietly accumulated and rising in price.
2. Obssession with Alcon trial failure; hyping old news.
3. Rumoe mongering about Gladerma relationship.
Don't be (Motley) Fooled by this shill.
Report this Comment On January 19, 2012, at 3:19 PM, my2cents4u wrote:
P.S.
zzlangerhans was pumping Oculus, now down 30% since December. Sour grapes, ZZ?
Report this Comment On January 19, 2012, at 7:35 PM, Sum111 wrote:
And Penicillin is but refined bread mold. Bactrim a rarefied Sulfur compound. Don't be so quick to write it off as "diluted bleach" as it is a bit more complicated than that. As for its failed conjunctivitis trial, I suggest this article in Cataract and Refractive Surgery Today to help explain why there is a need for further study.
http://bmctoday.net/crstoday/2011/08/article....hase-2-c...
You also failed to mention the success they have had in their first clinical trial regarding Impatigo and the one they had with treating bacterial infections with those with long term urinary catheters. I have been a Registered Nurse for some 20 years and have witnessed first hand the unmet concequences of treating the conditions that angaocides have the potential to treat. The outcomes are often not good.
While further trials may prove that treatment with aganocides may be ineffective, I see no real evidence of that in the trials already conducted. If they continue to prove sucessful, I see great good coming from their product not only in the things it is being tested for but in a myrid of other medical problems not yet explored.
In conclusion I believe that the success or failure of aganocide compounds will be determined by their clinical trials and nothing more. Until more is revealed, I will stay long in NBY.
Report this Comment On January 20, 2012, at 10:46 AM, cfiechter1 wrote:
Ha! Well this article goes to prove that anyone with a computer can be an "author" together with the Internet.
There is a ton of science behind NBY - they have created a stable form drug that uses a chlorine mechanism that kills bacteria without killing cells. It does this in a complete and very fast action that prevents the build-up of immunity by the foreign body (ie: same mechanism as white blood cells). This is not bleach, however - bleach kills human tissue, which is why wounds haven't been cleaned with saline rather than bleach. The science behind NBY products is non-trivial, however opportunity with the drug is quite large and important.
No question that the PhIIb results were disappointing, because they didn't show statistical indications. They certainly didn't meet the results of the test. What it does not say is that the drug mechanism doesn't work - that has been validated again and again and is why Galderma/Alcon have pumped tens of millions into the company. Basically, they messed up and need to take another run at it.
The stock has been pumped and bashed for years because the promise of the technology and the fact that a product hasn't yet been put to market. That should change in 2012.
Many company's with great science never get to market. Hopefully this one does, because the opportunity to really improve the world is large.
Seeking Alpha may be pumping the stock, but it probably makes sense to know something about what the company does before your publish your 'expert' opinion zz. Fool.
Report this Comment On January 20, 2012, at 11:13 AM, my2cents4u wrote:
What Motley Fools delivers is like Rockefeller's shoe shine boy giving him stock market tips right before the crash of '29. Stick to Barron's, Forbes, or Investor's Business Daily for somewhat more pertinent or credible info. I visit the Fool for laughs and to see what the "experts" are getting wrong.
The science is solid; R&D takes time with any new methodology, usually more than the attention span of most traders. This company and it's products are well positioned for success