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LIFE [NASD]
Life Technologies Corporation
Healthcare - Biotechnology - USA
IndexS&P 500 P/E60.53 EPS (ttm)0.79 Insider Own5.52% Shs Outstand178.34M Perf Week-5.31%
Market Cap8.53B Forward P/E12.82 EPS next Y3.73 Insider Trans-4.65% Shs Float168.50M Perf Month-6.24%
Income144.60M PEG5.34 EPS next Q0.80 Inst Own95.00% Short Float5.41% Perf Quarter-3.67%
Sales3.28B P/S2.60 EPS this Y1742.46% Inst Trans3.68% Short Ratio5.34 Perf Half Y6.53%
Book/sh22.57 P/B2.12 EPS next Y9.71% ROA1.61% Target Price59.56 Perf Year67.79%
Cash/sh3.63 P/C13.16 EPS next 5Y11.34% ROE3.86% 52W Range26.55 - 53.35 Perf YTD-8.43%
Dividend- P/FCF15.98 EPS past 5Y-0.39% ROI1.85% 52W High-10.37% Beta0.83
Dividend %- Quick Ratio1.04 Sales past 5Y26.22% Gross Margin55.63% 52W Low80.11% ATR1.34
Employees9600 Current Ratio1.29 Sales Q/Q61.13% Oper. Margin11.38% RSI (14)38.83 Volatility2.53% 2.81%
OptionableYes Debt/Eq0.77 EPS Q/Q127.61% Profit Margin4.41% Rel Volume0.94 Prev Close47.42
ShortableYes LT Debt/Eq0.65 EarningsJan 28 BMO Payout- Avg Volume1.71M Price47.82
Recom1.80 SMA20-3.67% SMA50-5.46% SMA2005.52% Volume1,599,290 Change0.84%
07-Jan-10Downgrade Deutsche Bank Buy → Hold $56 → $59
06-Nov-09Initiated Jefferies & Co Buy $57
29-Jul-09Reiterated Auriga U.S.A Buy $42 → $47
29-Apr-09Reiterated Wall Street Access Buy $36 → $40
29-Apr-09Reiterated UBS Buy $38 → $40
29-Apr-09Reiterated Leerink Swann Outperform $39 → $41
13-Feb-09Reiterated Wall Street Access Buy $42 → $36
22-Jan-09Reiterated Leerink Swann Outperform $41 → $40
15-Dec-08Reiterated Robert W. Baird Outperform $47 → $32
12-Dec-08Reiterated Barclays Capital Overweight $50 → $45
09-Feb-10 01:08PM  Ride The Goldfarb 10 at Investopedia
08-Feb-10 11:52AM  An Earnings Surprise of an Unusual Kind at Motley Fool
10:35AM  Life Sells Mass Spectrometry Business Zacks.com
05-Feb-10 06:05PM  Genetics Researcher Ready For Prime Time Investor's Business Daily
05:31PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K/A, Financial Statements and Exhibits EDGAR Online
02-Feb-10 11:54AM  Stossel: Life in America Improving FOX Business Now
07:31AM  InPlay: Life Technologies responds to challenge of detecting vesivirus 2117 contamination in mammalian cell culture manufac Briefing.com
07:30AM  Life Technologies Responds to Challenge of Detecting Vesivirus 2117 Contamination in Mammalian Cell Culture Manufacturing Business Wire
01-Feb-10 08:00AM  Life Technologies Completes Divestiture of Mass Spectrometry Business Business Wire
30-Jan-10 09:21AM  New Star Analyst Rankings for Life Technologies Corporation StarMine
29-Jan-10 05:28PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Financial Statements and Exhibits EDGAR Online
04:11PM  SQNM Jumps 3% As BlackRock Takes 6% Stake at Barrons.com
10:48AM  Danaher Exceeds Estimates Zacks.com
28-Jan-10 05:04PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events EDGAR Online
01:56PM  Life Technologies Corporation Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript at Seeking Alpha
12:24PM  LIFE Tops, Outlook Positive Zacks.com
12:20PM  Gene Machine Wars Get Ever Hotter at Forbes.com
12:08PM  UPDATE - Life Technologies Q4 profit beats view, shares rise at Reuters
09:42AM  Life Technologies partners on genomic center AP
09:32AM  UPDATE - Life Technologies Q4 profit beats, shares jump at Reuters
09:29AM  Life Technologies sees 4Q profit on sales boost AP
08:18AM  Life Technologies swings to gain at MarketWatch
08:00AM  Life Technologies and Ignite Institute Partner to Create Largest Next Generation Genomic Sequencing Facility in North America Business Wire
07:30AM  Life Technologies Announces Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2009 Results Business Wire
07:07AM  Q4 2009 Life Technologies Corporation Earnings Release - Before Market Open CCBN
27-Jan-10 04:20PM  Life Technologies Brings Genomic Sequencing Closer to the Clinic Business Wire
02:35PM  UPDATE - FTC puts conditions on Danaher buy of MDS Analytical at Reuters
02:07PM  Diagnostic Companies Are Becoming "Quasi-Device" Research And Development Businesses As Life Sciences Innovations Continue Wall Street Transcript
06:03AM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events EDGAR Online
26-Jan-10 03:22PM  Waters Corp. Matches Estimates Zacks.com
24-Jan-10 09:41PM  Mergers And Acquisitions Of Medical Diagnostics Companies Will Be Increasing Trend According To Industry Expert Wall Street Transcript
22-Jan-10 05:28PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Other Events EDGAR Online
21-Jan-10 07:30AM  Applied Biosystems Forensic DNA Kit Approved for Use by the National DNA Index System Business Wire
04:37AM  RPT-EU conditionally okays Agilent's takeover of Varian at Reuters
03:55AM  EU conditionally okays Agilent's takeover of Varian at Reuters
19-Jan-10 03:07PM  Profits At Health Insurers And Drug Makers To Be Unaffected If Health Care Legislation Does Not Pass: Credit Suisse Analyst Covers The Current State Of The Sector Wall Street Transcript
03:32AM  New Illumina Genome Sequencer Dramatically Slashes Costs, Time at Seeking Alpha
18-Jan-10 10:04AM  Luminex Upgraded to Neutral Zacks.com
03:22AM  Biotech's Busy Week of Handshakes and Financings at Seeking Alpha
12-Jan-10 04:51PM  Illumina Unveils System to Cut Genome Sequencing Costs at The Wall Street Journal Online
08:30AM  Life Technologies Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire AcroMetrix Business Wire
11-Jan-10 04:05PM  Life Technologies Sets 4th Quarter and Full Year 2009 Earnings Release Date for Thursday, January 28, 2010 Business Wire
07-Jan-10 01:28AM  Life Technologies downgraded by Deutsche Bank Briefing.com
28-Dec-09 04:26PM  Better Buy: Thermo Fisher Scientific or PerkinElmer? at Motley Fool
08:09AM  Life Science Stocks: A Growing Market in 2010 at BusinessWeek
22-Dec-09 08:59AM  Hospital Spending Recovery Should Boost Equipment Stocks at Seeking Alpha
07:00AM  Life Technologies to Present at the 28th Annual J.P. Morgan Healthcare Conference Business Wire
18-Dec-09 05:30PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Change in Directors or Principal Officers EDGAR Online
17-Dec-09 06:00AM  Matthew Herper On The New Genetic Revolution at Forbes.com
16-Dec-09 04:00PM  Life Technologies' SOLiD System Finds Mutations in Small Cell Lung Cancer Line Business Wire
15-Dec-09 08:30AM  Life Technologies Completes Acquisition of BioTrove Business Wire
09-Dec-09 09:00AM  GenVault Announces Supply Agreement With Life Technologies PR Newswire
08-Dec-09 02:48PM  Better Buy: QIAGEN N.V. or Gen-Probe? at Motley Fool
07-Dec-09 07:30AM  Applied Biosystems Debuts Industry's First Acoustic Flow Cytometer Business Wire
04-Dec-09 05:57PM  Living the Good Second Life FOX Business Now
03-Dec-09 09:55AM  Behind the Business: 3 Questions for Vical at Motley Fool
30-Nov-09 10:14AM  Luminex Posts Loss Zacks.com
25-Nov-09 06:50AM  InvestorSoup.com Issues Technical Trading Outlook for ARCA biopharma Inc. GlobeNewswire
20-Nov-09 09:44AM  Uncertainty Breeds Opportunity in Specialty Pharma Stock Pick From Piper Jaffray Senior Research Analyst Wall Street Transcript
19-Nov-09 06:50AM  Beacon Equity Issues Technical Trading Overview for Questcor Pharmaceuticals Inc. GlobeNewswire
13-Nov-09 05:25PM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Unregistered Sale of Equity Securities EDGAR Online
12-Nov-09 01:31PM  Desktop Bug Detector at Forbes.com
07:30AM  Life Technologies Addresses Promise of Cell Therapies at Industry Leader Summit Business Wire
06:50AM  Trading Outlook for StemCells Inc. Issued by InvestorSoup.com GlobeNewswire
11-Nov-09 10:03AM  Healthcare Guru Adds Selected Biotech, Pharma Stakes Indie Research
10-Nov-09 02:24PM  Life Technologies buying BioTrove AP
09:08AM  Life Technologies Signs Definitive Agreement to Acquire BioTrove Business Wire
09:04AM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Financials EDGAR Online Financials
07:30AM  University of Cambridge and Life Technologies Collaborate on Landmark High Throughput Sequencing Hub in United Kingdom Business Wire
05-Nov-09 12:10PM  Indian Pharmaceutical Stock Picks From Citi Investment Research: The Sub Continent Goes Global WIth Drug Manufacturing Partnerships Wall Street Transcript
06:50AM  Trading Outlook for Advanced Life Sciences Holdings Inc. Issued by InvestorSoup.com GlobeNewswire
06:03AM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 10-Q, Quarterly Report EDGAR Online
04-Nov-09 06:50AM  Trading Outlook for MannKind Corp. Issued by InvestorSoup.com GlobeNewswire
03-Nov-09 08:26AM  Obamacare Positive To Net Neutral For Pharmaceutical Industry According To Analysis By Morningstar Expert Wall Street Transcript
03:13AM  In Uncertain Times, Quality Prevails Fox Business
31-Oct-09 07:34AM  [$$] Research Reports at Barrons.com
28-Oct-09 02:01PM  The Waters Aren't Flowing. Yet. at Motley Fool
01:53PM  Ugly, but Still Built for Growth at Motley Fool
08:50AM  Waters Corporation Modestly Outperforms Zacks.com
08:30AM  Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Cooper Tire & Rubber Co., Citi Trends, Life Technologies Corporation, MDS Analytical Technologies and Danaher Corporation Zacks.com
27-Oct-09 03:09PM  Life Technologies Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript at Seeking Alpha
12:46PM  Life Beats, Boosts Outlook Zacks.com
12:31PM  Oct. 27: Unusual Volume Leaders at CNBC
11:56AM  Life Technologies says demand held up in 3Q AP
09:38AM  Life Technologies Beats the Street, Revenue Ticks Up 3% at Fox Business
09:22AM  UPDATE - Life Technologies posts higher-than-expected Q3 profit at Reuters
08:38AM  Life Technologies net income, revenue double at MarketWatch
07:51AM  LIFE TECHNOLOGIES CORP Files SEC form 8-K, Regulation FD Disclosure EDGAR Online
07:30AM  Life Technologies Announces Third Quarter 2009 Results Business Wire
07:07AM  Q3 2009 Life Technologies Corporation Earnings Release - Before Market Open CCBN
06:50AM  Trading Outlook for Elan Corp. Plc. Issued by InvestorSoup.com GlobeNewswire
06:50AM  Trading Review for Discovery Laboratories Inc. Issued by Beacon Equity GlobeNewswire
26-Oct-09 04:27PM  Phase III Trial Expenses For Diabetes Treatments Now Forcing Acquisitions Of Small Cap Biotech Firms: FDA Has "Raised The Bar" For Approval Due To Recent Cardiovascular Issues Wall Street Transcript
23-Oct-09 10:22AM  Global Healthcare Companies Investor 100% Overweighted To Biotech As Wave Of Acquisitions By Large Pharma Picks Up Pace Wall Street Transcript
22-Oct-09 11:47AM  UPDATE - Affymetrix shares fall after Q4 rev view misses market at Reuters
07:30AM  Global Commercialization of Applied Biosystems 3500 Series Genetic Analyzers Sets New Standards for Throughput, Data Quality and Ease-of-Use Business Wire
21-Oct-09 07:30AM  Life Technologies Delivers Enhanced Next-Generation Genomic Analysis Technology for Large-Scale Resequencing Projects Business Wire
06:50AM  Trading Review for Inovio Biomedical Corp. Issued by InvestorSoup.com GlobeNewswire
20-Oct-09 12:03PM  Neurogenic Orthostatic Hypotension Treatment Should Pass Phase III Trials: Catalyst For Biotech Stock Says Wedbush Morgan Analyst Wall Street Transcript
11:46AM  CEO Interview: Advaxis - Thomas Moore Wall Street Transcript
Life Technologies Corporation operates as a global biotechnology tools company focused on improving the human condition. Its systems, consumables, and services enable researchers to accelerate scientific exploration, driving to discoveries and developments that better the quality of life. Life Technologies' customers do their work across the biological spectrum, working to advance personalized medicine, regenerative science, molecular diagnostics, agricultural and environmental research, and 21st century forensics. The company delivers a range of products and services, including systems, instruments, reagents, and custom services. Its portfolio of products includes technologies for capillary electrophoresis based sequencing, next generation sequencing, mass spectrometry, sample preparation, cell culture, RNA interference analysis, functional genomics research, proteomics, and cell biology applications, as well as clinical diagnostic applications and water testing analysis. The company has a presence in approximately 100 countries, and possesses a growing intellectual property estate of approximately 3,600 patents and exclusive licenses. Life Technologies was created by the combination of Invitrogen Corporation and Applied Biosystems, Inc. It has a strategic alliance agreement with Applied Biosystems designed to accelerate research into complex diseases and medical conditions; and strategic scientific research collaboration with The University of Queensland's Institute for Molecular Bioscience to study pancreatic and ovarian cancer in Australia. The company is based in Carlsbad, California.