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Highest Earnings Yield in the Biotechnology Industry Detected in Shares of Maxygen (MAXY, PDLI, SPPI, SCLN, UTHR)Jan 27, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) -- Below are the three companies in the Biotechnology industry with the highest earnings yields. Earnings yield is useful to compare the relative benefit of owning a stock vs. owning other yield assets such as bonds. If the earnings yield is higher, stocks may be considered undervalued.Maxygen ranks highest with a an earnings yield of 29.8%. Following is PDL BioPharma with a an earnings yield of 20.7%. Spectrum Pharmaceuticals ranks third highest with a an earnings yield of 13.0%. Sciclone Pharmaceuticals follows with a an earnings yield of 12.0%, and United Therapeutics rounds out the top five with a an earnings yield of 9.3%. SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Maxygen on September 7th, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $2.70. Since that call, shares of Maxygen have fallen 10.4%. 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 |