Insulet Corp (PODD)

EclecticRecluse (75.45) Submitted: 9/13/2009 6:44:50 PM : Start Price: $11.08 PODD Score: -5.21

Extremely High Price for Sales

cpalerm (36.61) Submitted: 4/4/2009 1:13:51 PM : Start Price: $4.42 PODD Score: -145.94

While they have a very nice product it has some design 'features' which might lead to trouble. Each pod (the actual pump) works for only 3 days and is thrown away after that. This means 122 pods per patient per year; scaling up production to be able to serve any significant portion of the US market, much less the world market, is a huge endeavor. This is most likely why they have not gone ahead into offering the pump for use in the delivery of other drugs.
There are other related issues to their product that makes it harder to sustain market share, particularly in times like these, with many people loosing their health insurance and therefore not being able to keep purchasing the pumps.

delos2 (< 20) Submitted: 8/11/2008 6:17:09 PM : Start Price: $14.97 PODD Score: +4.49

Not a market guy, but a manufacturing guy. Insulet was my account up until last year when the printed circuit board company I worked for finally gave up to offshore pressure. I knew a lot of these guys and I am amazed this company has not taken off like a rocket. Never opened a Schwab account before but did for this group and closed it when I thought they couldn't figure out how to get out of their own way. One of life's disapointments. Insulet needs to figure out how to stop spending and start making money. A top notch product I know well. Good luck - when the price point is back in the $12's will take another look. There were a whole list of meds this pump was slated to dispense.

thedukie (< 20) Submitted: 6/25/2008 9:38:20 AM : Start Price: $16.27 PODD Score: +9.76

Medtronic will have competitive product in the future, and insulet has production issues and is burning through a lot of cash.