Tuesday, February 5, 2013

Why Repros Is Poised to Keep Plunging

Based on the aggregated intelligence of 180,000-plus investors participating in Motley Fool CAPS, the Fool's free investing community, clinical-stage biotech company Repros Therapeutics (NASDAQ: RPRX  ) has received the dreaded one-star ranking.

With that in mind, let's take a closer look at Repros and see what CAPS investors are saying about the stock right now.

Repros facts

Headquarters (founded)

The Woodlands, Texas (1987)

Market Cap

$208.1 million

Industry

Pharmaceuticals

Trailing-12-Month EBITDA

($12.7 million)

Management

CEO Joseph Podolski (since 1992)
CFO Katherine Anderson (since 2011)

Trailing-12-Month Return on Equity

(69.9%)

Cash/Debt

$29.6 million / $0

Competitors

Abbott Labs
Auxilium Pharmaceuticals
Actavis

Sources: S&P Capital IQ and Motley Fool CAPS.

On CAPS, 54% of the 131 members who have rated Repros believe the stock will underperform the S&P 500 going forward.

Just last week, one of those Fools, All-Star TerryHogan, succinctly summed up the Repros bear case for our community:

They're burning through cash like a former child-star on a [V]egas bender, and they're handing out shares like they're breath mints at a halitosis convention. They have no revenues to speak of (in fact they don't have any revenue at all). And while the latest announcement about their clinical trial isn't exactly a nail in the coffin, it could be a sign of greater malfeasance.

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