Dallas 8/3/2010 9:52:35 PM
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Stock Alert : Sanofi-Aventis SA wants to acquire Genzyme Corp. (NASDAQ: GENZ)

Stock Alert

Genzyme Corporation (NASDAQ: GENZ) shares are currently trading at $70.36 a weekly gain of $7.84 which is 12.54% jump from last Monday’s closing price of $62.52. The company’s shares have 52-week trading range of $45.39 - $70.97. The daily average volume of the stock is 9.13 million shares. The company has 50 day moving average of $53.57 and 200 day moving average of $53.10. The RSI of the stock is 84.49, indicating an overbought position of the stock. Also the MACD (4.685, 3.046, 1.649) of the stock indicates an overbought position of the stock. The sustenance and resistance levels of Genzyme Corporation are $68.78 and $71.45. The Market Capitalization of the company is $18.78 billion.

 

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Sanofi- Aventis SA has already taken an approval from his board to offer $70 per share, and is preparing a formal offer letter for Genzyme Corp. This deal would cost approx. $18.70 billion to Sanofi-Aventis.

 

However, Bloomberg interview 3 major shareholders in the company. These shareholders were not willing to sell their stake for the price being offered by Sanofi-Aventis. Sven Borho, a partner with Orbimed Advisors, holder of 2.5 million shares of Genzyme Corp. said “$80 was the valuation in 2008, before the manufacturing issues, and without those issues it would be trading there now, this hasn’t been a great year and you can’t base a valuation on it. The growth rate in 2011 could easily be 20 percent or more, and that’s one of the highest growth rates in biotech.”

 

Genzyme Corp. was facing problems with manufacturing, miscued projections and shortages of supply. This had lead the market value of Genzyme Corp. to decline in mid 2008.

 

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Meanwhile, Genzyme Corp. is reportedly looking for an $80 per share offer, with other bidders like GlaxoSmithKline (GSK), Pfizer, Inc. (PFE) and Johnson & Johnson (JNJ) also in the fray.

 

Genzyme Corporation is a global biotechnology company. The Company’s develops product that treat rare genetic disease disorders, renal diseases, orthopaedics, cancer, transplant and immune disease, and diagnostic and predictive testing. Genzyme operates in four business segments: Genetic Diseases, Cardiometabolic and Renal, Biosurgery and Hematologic Oncology. Genetic Diseases unit develops, manufactures and distributes therapeutic products. Cardiometabolic and Renal segment develops, manufactures and distributes products that treat patients suffering from renal diseases. Biosurgery develops, manufactures and distributes biotherapeutics and biomaterial-based products. Hematologic Oncology develops, manufactures and distributes products for the treatment of cancer.

 

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