$47.82 0.40 (+0.84%)
2/9/2010 4:00 PM

Life Technologies Corporation (LIFE)

CAPS Rating: 3 out of 5

Current Price $47.82 Mkt Cap $8.53B
Open $47.52 P/E Ratio 15.15
Prev. Close $47.42 Div. (Yield) N/A (N/A)
Daily Range $47.52 - $48.38 Volume 1,600,290
52-Wk Range $26.55 - $53.35 Avg. Daily Vol. 0

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Wall Street

9 Outperform
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Top LIFE Bull/Bear Pitches

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Bigstu52 (70.32)
Submitted July 31, 2009

Former Invitrogen... Makes numerous reagents and tools needed to do research in biochemistry, genetics and DNA technology

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UltraContrarian (99.82)
Submitted July 25, 2009

Buying your way into being a $7B corporation does not really work. Just ask former WorldCom shareholders.

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Member Avatar EBStroke (< 20) Submitted: 2/8/2010 12:48:49 PM : Outperform Start Price: $47.57 LIFE Score: +0.41

Zacks Rank 3-Hold, Recommend Neutral, Industry Rank 94 / 217, Target 54.00, Avg Target of 15 analysts 57.00 - repick @ 47.57

Zacks Equity Research, January 28, 2010
http://www.zacks.com/stock/news/29886/LIFE+Beats%2C+Outlook+Positive

Zacks Equity Research, January 29, 2010
"Recently, Danaher won approval from U.S. antitrust regulators to buy MDS Analytical Technologies. The commission said it approved the deal conditioned on the sale of assets related to MDS's Arcturus brand of laser micro-dissection devices to Life Technologies Corp. (LIFE - Analyst Report)."

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Member Avatar rusman1984 (42.39) Submitted: 2/4/2010 6:52:53 PM : Outperform Start Price: $47.52 LIFE Score: +0.01

Life Technologies will come to dominate life science product sales via acquisition and R&D. The combination of Applied Biosystems and Invitrogen makes this company a force to reckon with long term.

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Member Avatar ipfmanager (98.45) Submitted: 11/16/2009 5:45:39 PM : Outperform Start Price: $51.20 LIFE Score: -3.27

nih grant

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Score Leader

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TrackBarclaysCap (94.50) Score: +104.62

The Score Leader is the member with the highest score across all their picks in LIFE.

Top
Pick 		Member Name Member
Rating 		Start
Date 		Call Time
Frame 		Start
Price 		Stock
Gain 		S&P
Gain 		Score Commentary
rikkyy21 74.10 12/15/2008 Outperform 5Y $21.01 +127.61% +23.57% +104.03 1 Comment
kinseysf 28.49 12/18/2008 Outperform 5Y $22.10 +116.38% +20.35% +96.03
PatientTrader 82.59 12/18/2008 Outperform 5Y $22.10 +116.38% +20.35% +96.03 1 Comment
RT42 94.77 12/8/2008 Outperform 3Y $22.44 +113.10% +21.76% +91.34
foolinpairodice 89.31 1/5/2009 Outperform 1Y $23.87 +100.34% +17.79% +82.54
forcel0 98.22 1/13/2009 Outperform 5Y $23.02 +107.73% +25.81% +81.93
BigTicket5 92.05 1/5/2009 Outperform 5Y $24.77 +93.06% +17.44% +75.62
portefeuille4 99.84 1/5/2009 Outperform 3Y $24.77 +93.06% +17.63% +75.43
BfloBull 97.76 12/2/2008 1/8/2010 Outperform 3Y $23.80 +100.92% +31.21% +69.71
cott1117 90.34 12/2/2008 Outperform 5Y $23.61 +102.54% +32.99% +69.55
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Wall Street

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Member Name Member
Rating		 Start
Date		 Call Time
Frame		 Start
Price		 Stock
Gain		 S&P
Gain		 Score End Date Commentary
TrackJefferies 82.08 11/7/2009 Outperform NS $49.45 -3.30% +0.90% -4.20
TrackAurigaU.S.A < 20 7/29/2009 Outperform NS $45.86 +4.27% +10.56% -6.28
TrackUBS 87.99 4/29/2009 Outperform NS $37.28 +28.27% +24.07% +4.21
TrackBobOlstein 74.19 3/2/2009 Outperform 1Y $28.81 +65.98% +50.47% +15.51 3 Comments
TrackIcahn 32.10 2/24/2009 Outperform 1Y $28.59 +67.26% +44.93% +22.33 1 Comment
TrackWallStreetA 80.18 2/13/2009 Outperform NS $30.69 +55.82% +29.79% +26.02
TrackLeerinkSwan 92.83 1/22/2009 Outperform NS $26.48 +80.59% +32.39% +48.20
TrackRWBaird 87.00 12/15/2008 Outperform NS $21.01 +127.61% +23.57% +104.03
TrackBarclaysCap 94.50 12/12/2008 Outperform NS $20.77 +130.24% +25.62% +104.62

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