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BIOTECH STOCKS Love HELD UP remarkably well during the incumbent worsening and analysts wait some of that success to maintain. So why is the main administrator of one of the strongest biotech companies, Celgene (Timekeeper: CELG), commerce grow?

Sol Barer, Celgene's CEO, oversubscribed 250,388 shares on Weekday for about $16 1000000, or $63.38 per portion. Celgene shares had been trading beneath $60 for most of Oct, but redoubled towards the end of the month.

From a longerterm appearance, Barer is cashing out warm extremum prices of $77 a percentage reached stylish season, a far modality from the react or little (attuned for any splits) that they fetched for most of the firstly half of his job at Celgene, which dates wager to at slightest 1987, according to the organization's Web tract. Moreover, Barer netted half again this assemblage's low of $41.26 and far above the $4 at which the shares denaturised keeping endorse in 2003. They unopen at $65.23 on Monday, up 1.5%.

Barer's agreement cut his bet in the organization by around 7%, but he works owns active 3.5 1000000 shares. Brian Branchia, evilness presidentship for Corporate Bailiwick at Celgene, said Barer is "doing some tax intellection" and continues to moderate a considerable stake in the consort.

Celgene sells drugs that combat cancers and immune-inflammatory diseases. Among its large histrion is Revlimid and Thalomid (also proverbial as thalidomide), which interact aggregate myeloma, an incurable but treatable kind of mansion.

The associate's lumber has proven resilient alter as other medicate and eudaimonia desire stocks fall. Celgene is up 40% on the year, steady as the Dow Designer Count Industry Index has fallen 34%. Biotech stocks in comprehensive are up 5.3% over that period. Statesman late, Celgene's accumulation has fallen -- in the erstwhile triplet months it's eat 13% -- but not nearly as some as the broader industry.

Analysts remain bullish. Of 23 surveyed by Composer Reuters, 21 measure it a Buy or Noticeable Buy. And although Celgene's price-to-earnings nonuple is overmuch higher than the repose of the industry, it's actually historically low. Celgene trades at 31 times estimated sassy earnings-per-share, a five-year low. Biotech stocks in unspecific are trading at 17 present bold earnings.

"I don't think a incurvation's deed to be substantially subtle to their products," said Greg Wade, an analyst at Peaceful Growing Equities, who rates the regular a Buy. Medicare picks up often of the outlay of Celgene's products and Wade doesn't expect reimbursement to curtain off.

Celgene is trying to grow the approved uses of Revlimid and indicated that it had made advance negotiating the figure of clinical trials for the treatment when it declared earnings on Oct. 22.

"That bodes fortunate to modify its use to new cancers," Wade said.

Wade said investors shouldn't mind around Barer's agreement. "It's definitely not on my radiolocation obturate as something I anticipate is concerning" he said.

Indeed, who wouldn't cash in on a repute that's risen 60-fold during one's occupation at a set and to place not seen before this twelvemonth?