Word: syntex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the best way to improve profits of the S. & P. counseling oper-'ation was to spin it off as a separate firm under bolder management. He turned to Stein, then a partner at Oppenheimer & Co. Stein had earned a reputation as an analyst by his spotting of Syntex, Control Data and semiconductor stocks. Last year he earned more than $1,000,000. At InterCapital, Stein has three friends. The No. 2 man, Arthur Zeikel, 36, moved from Dreyfus Corp., where he was co-manager of the $2.7-billion Dreyfus Fund for the past four years. The two other...
However bullish such performances among blue chips may look, high-flyers such as Avco, Syntex and Control Data have actually led the spring spurt. Last week Polaroid (up $10.63), Motorola (up $14.13) and Teledyne (up $15.75) carried on the surge, and IBM shot up a whopping $28.50, thanks to a $17 jump Thursday, to close at a record $496.50 per share. But the industrials are catching up, partly because cash-heavy institutional investors (notably mutual funds) are upping their purchases. "The more the glamour stocks go up," explains Richard Buchsbaum, research director at W. E. Hutton & Co., "the cheaper...
...ovulation. If they could prevent this dip, the researchers reasoned, they could prevent ovulation. They felt it would be more natural to do this by providing nothing but added estrogen until the 20th day, and then giving progestin only briefly. San Antonio Researcher Dr. Joseph W. Goldzieher worked with Syntex Laboratories to develop the resulting "sequentials." Beginning with Day 5, the woman takes a white estrogen pill for 15 days, then a distinctively colored
...they ever will. Take the testimony of Judson Sayre, retired vice president of Borg, Warner, who now spends his time investing for himself in a quiet office in Chicago's Merchandise Mart. Sayre has done very well on growth stocks, reputedly has made $1,000,000 on Xerox and Syntex. Last week Sayre bought 5,000 shares of Pennsylvania Railroad, and he intends to pay more attention to other blue chips. Says he: "They have all their future in front of them...
Benefiting from Research. Because Syntex's stock has been so volatile, some Wall Streeters have been skeptical of the firm's future once the pill boom lags. But only about 20% of the U.S. women who could use the pills now do so, and most of the overseas market has barely been tapped. Moreover, Syntex's research in hormones and nucleic acids is right where major new-drug discoveries are most likely to come. Even now, Syntex is benefiting from its research. Its earnings in the latest quarter jumped 236% (to $5.9 million) and sales climbed...