[May 08, 2013] Echo Therapeutics is Among the Companies in the Pharmaceuticals Industry With the Lowest Revenue Per Employee (ECTE, CRME, VVUS, ALXA, NBS) Tweet May 08, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Pharmaceuticals industry with the lowest Revenue Per Employee (RPE). Analysts use RPE as a measure to compare the productivity of companies in the same industry.Echo Therapeutics ranks lowest with a an RPE of $14,000. Cardiome Pharma is next with a an RPE of $17,000. Vivus ranks third lowest with a an RPE of $47,000. Alexza Pharmaceuticals follows with a an RPE of $54,000, and Neostem rounds out the bottom five with a an RPE of $78,000. SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Echo Therapeutics on February 1st, 2013 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $0.81. Since that call, shares of Echo Therapeutics have fallen 28.0%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time. Write to Chip Brian at [email protected] --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SmarTrend analyzes over 5,000 securities simultaneously throughout the trading day and provides its subscribers with trend change alerts in real time. To get a free trial of our trading calls and maximize your trading results, please visit http://www.MySmarTrend.com Get exclusive, actionable insight into how the market is expected to trend prior to market open with our free morning newsletter. Sign up at: http://www.MySmarTrend.com/signup [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]