Stock Watch: Brace For European Biotech Departures From NASDAQ

Waning Investor Appetite And Cost Cutting May Drive Biotechs Home

A NASDAQ listing has been the pinnacle for non-US biotech companies because it brings access to more specialist investors and a larger capital base. But the appetite for – and aftermarket performance of – this biotech tourism is cycle-dependent.

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ANDY SMITH OFFERS A LIFE SCIENCE INVESTOR'S PERSPECTIVE ON BIOPHARMA BUSINESS

Ask any European private biotech company just a year ago on its plans for fundraising and a NASDAQ IPO would probably have figured highly in the answer. Since the start of 2022, though, new IPOs and secondary offerings have had a poor reception and back-door listings like SPAC transactions have been cancelled.

The bubble in the NASDAQ Biotech Index (NBI) that started in March 2020 with the hopes that the sector would resolve the pandemic continued to its bursting at the end...

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