June 19, 2022 | CHPT, Daily JAM, EVGO, Volatility |
Friday, June 17, was a modestly up day for most of the indexes. The Standard & Poor’s 500, for example, gained 0.22% and the NASDAQ was up a stronger 1.43%. (The Dow Jones Industrial Average lost 0.13% on the day.) But you’d never know that the indexes were up only modestly if you checked the gains on the most speculative stocks in the market. Meme favorites GameStop (GME) and AMC Entertainment (AMC) were up 7.48% and 6.28%, respectively. But the speculative gains didn’t stop there.
February 1, 2021 | Daily JAM, Jubak Picks, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Nektar (NKTR) is another one of those stocks that looks to be moving up more strongly right now than the relatively sparse news would explain. Shares of this biotech are up 18.96% in the last week and 24.37% for the last 3 months. I can see a stream of positive news that should be leading the stock gradually higher, but nothing that is especially “current.”
January 15, 2020 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Yesterday an advisory joint committee at the U.S. Food & Drug Administration voted to reject Nektar's application for its new non-addictive opioid NKTR-181. The thinking--my thinking--was that the committee had structured the vote so that the most likely outcome...
January 13, 2020 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
I understand why the U.S. Food & Drug Administration has moved so slowly on a decision on Nektar Therapeutic's (NKTR) new non-addictive opioid NKTR-181. The last thing the FDA wants to do in the midst of epidemic of opioid addiction is to approve a drug that might...
August 13, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts, Volatility |
What we know about Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) is pretty clear. On Thursday of last week, August 8, trading in shares of Nektar were halted on news from the company had manufacturing problems that resulted in some patients enrolled in the clinical trials for the...
July 29, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
I've finished my Special Report 5 Value Picks for a Market at Record Highs. (The five picks, for the record were Disney (DIS), DuPont (DD), Constellation Brands (STZ), China Mobile (CHL), and Tyson Foods (TSN). You can find this special report with information on each...
June 18, 2019 | CTVA, Daily JAM, Special Reports, Volatility, You Might Have Missed |
This isn't  time for investing as usual. As whacky as the first half of 2019 has been--the Federal Reserve embraces interest rate cuts, the U.S. and China descend further into a trade war, the U.S. economy turns in better than 3% growth but fears for a slowdown in...
June 17, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, PE, Stock Alerts |
Again. I'm adding the January 17, 2020 Call Options with a strike at $35 on Nektar Theraeutics (NKTR) to my Volatility Portfolio on JubakAM.com and JugglingWithKnives.com. (Ticker on these options is NKTR200117C00035000.) The underlying shares closed at $33.70, up...
June 12, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Shares of Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) have been bumping along between $32 and $34 for two months now, but the company continues to take steps to prepare for the likely August approval of NKTR-181, a new non-addictive opioid. Nektar has formed Inheris Biopharma, a...
April 4, 2019 | Daily JAM, NKTR, Stock Alerts |
Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR) won't miss Wall Street earnings projections when it reports its first quarter financial results on May 9--because the company won't report any earnings. The consensus projection now has the company reporting a loss of 76 cents a share on...
April 1, 2019 | Daily JAM, Special Reports |
My thesis--the one I argued in my Special Report: 10 dangerous stocks for this earnings season--is that the earnings season for the first quarter that begins on April 12 with reports from the Big Banks is likely to be especially volatile. And stock that misses analyst...
March 26, 2019 | Daily JAM, Short Term, Special Reports |
That famous futures trader Marc Antony famously said "Beware the Ides of April." Okay, the guy had a mixed performance record. Short Brutus but long Cleopatra. But his advice about April 2019 is good. The Ides of April fall on the 13th of the month. And what promises...
