Re: Mabel's Post# 34865
so lets use the golfer analogy- you want a card that says you can have scott, kopeka, speith, rory, michelson or you can take the card with just Tiger. Gee I'll take 5 chances over 1. Now look at ziop with a valuation about that of xon give or take 200 million and tell me ziop has better anything than xon and that includes a clinical researcher as CEO. It is just ridiculous to value a company like xon and say but you give nothing to fish, apples, skeeters, etc. etc. Even at absolute worst those are worth something to someone. Yes valuation is subjective and my point is the negativity of the market to xon is reasonably unfair and not founded in simple bean counter methodology. Ziop is no more likely to hit the motherlode than xon and more than likely less apt too. That is just silly to say the two are equivalent and ignore all the other pieces of xon as worthless. You can argue your broker mentality from now to doomsday. Here's a prime example and more to the point of your mentality- back in the day imcl had erbitux- actual trial results showed it to be equal or superior to avastin in refractory colorectal- folks from feinstein to Cramer panned imcl and when the martha stewart sam waksal story hit and the class actions started they were tenaciously negative and asserted as you avasti,n was best of breed and imcl worthless. Well long story short erbitux ( a marginal drug at best) went on to approval as did avastin- IMCL went from 2's to 70 in a lilly buyout. Did any of those broker type's say "my bad" gee we were wrong. LOL I think you know the answer to that. So you go ahead and pan xon but Im betting xon gets 5X multiples from here at very least when all is said and done and maybe 10X where it was years ago. A similar stock to imcl in this market is NKTR where BMY invested 1.5 billion sending the stock over 100 and yet now with some hiccups and manufacturing issues it sits at 18. Now both 181 and 214 are viable drugs and much better than erbitux ever was but try and tell that to a broker like MABEL. LOL