$12.71 -0.23 (-1.78%)
12/3/2009 4:00 PM

Quidel Corp (QDEL)

CAPS Rating: 5 out of 5

The Company is engaged in the development, manufacturing and marketing of rapid diagnostic solutions at the professional point-of-care in infectious diseases and reproductive health.

Current Price $12.71 Mkt Cap $383.16M
Open $0.00 P/E Ratio 20.84
Prev. Close $12.71 Div. (Yield) N/A (N/A)
Daily Range $12.71 - $13.06 Volume 296,616
52-Wk Range $7.05 - $18.81 Avg. Daily Vol. 426,000

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Submitted March 14, 2008

The wave of the future in health care diagnostics with rapid point of care results, no wait for transit to a lab and culture growth, eliminating the need for f/u visits/calls for results/answers.

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Member Avatar rknapton (82.78) Submitted: 11/4/2009 4:00:13 PM : Outperform Start Price: $14.59 QDEL Score: -17.35



QDEL (Quidel Corp)
This company makes rapid diagnostic test for illnesses such as the flu. If this H1N1 swine flu continues to be a nasty problem, this is probably a company that will continue to have great results. Just last quarter alone, they grew revenues by a whopping 76% and earnings by a full 215% Paying 23 times trailing and 22 times forward earnings may seem like a high multiple, but in case this company continues to have such growth rates for any length of time, then that will prove to be quite a bargain anyways. Additionally, the average of the eight analyst estimates has increased by almost 14% over the past 90 days. I see no reason that these upward revisions would not continue as it is becoming more apparent the swine flu has become more and more of a worry.

Directly from their conference call on October 19th, management said this: "We had a very significant benefit during the quarter from our influenza test sales driven by a considerable increase in influenza like illness beginning in mid August", and "The emergence of the 2009 H1N1 virus, and an increase in a number of physicians using rapid flu tests to aid in the diagnosis of influenza, are the key contributing factors". Now, it's not as if these orders are going to just dry up because distributors and end users do not have a supply anywhere close to getting through this winter which is just starting. "With regard to influenza tests, we estimate that the majority of our domestic distributor inventories are at roughly three week supply of current end-user demand. We have also recently surveyed physicians, and based upon their feedback, believe their test on hand to be relatively low as well, with 75-percent of them expecting to reorder in the near term". Therefore we should probably expect QDEL to have a couple very nice quarters in a row.

One more little bright spot with this company, they have $65 million in cash (which has been growing year after year), and just $6 million in debt, therefore, I would assume a cash dividend or share buyback would be announced sometime within the foreseeable future.

RK

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Member Avatar bizcbug7 (73.43) Submitted: 10/23/2009 11:04:59 AM : Outperform Start Price: $15.35 QDEL Score: -18.80

flu diagnostics. Good quarter....getting momentum

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Member Avatar downyesterday (< 20) Submitted: 10/19/2009 7:41:55 PM : Outperform Start Price: $14.50 QDEL Score: -12.74

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jygalye 62.54 2/27/2007 9/13/2008 Outperform 1Y $10.36 +22.68% -18.40% +41.09
danonwilfon 88.66 3/1/2007 Outperform 3M $10.65 +19.34% -15.92% +35.26
MrProbabilistic < 20 3/9/2007 Outperform NS $10.84 +17.25% -17.09% +34.35 1 Comment
acf8vj < 20 3/12/2007 Outperform 3M $11.04 +15.13% -16.68% +31.80
greenlight1 76.09 2/20/2007 Outperform NS $11.71 +8.54% -19.51% +28.05
Eldomir 48.43 2/16/2007 Outperform 3W $11.83 +7.44% -19.51% +26.95 1 Comment
ChiouMoney 63.18 3/27/2007 Outperform 1Y $11.86 +7.17% -18.31% +25.48
meyring < 20 8/28/2006 Outperform 1Y $11.16 +13.89% -9.25% +23.14
frtzl 59.16 9/6/2006 Outperform 3M $11.40 +11.49% -9.62% +21.12
madgolfer1 41.88 4/9/2007 Outperform 3M $12.50 +1.68% -19.32% +21.00 1 Comment

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TrackWedbush < 20 8/7/2009 Underperform NS $13.96 -8.95% +9.87% +18.83
TrackWedbush < 20 3/9/2009 Outperform NS $9.66 +41.46% +46.86% -5.40 8/6/2009 @ $13.66
TrackCollinsStew 68.55 10/20/2008 Outperform NS $13.82 -38.93% -11.10% -27.83 4/23/2009 @ $8.44
TrackCLKing < 20 8/29/2008 Outperform NS $19.29 -34.11% -11.90% -22.21
TrackJimCramer < 20 2/15/2008 Outperform 3W $15.97 -20.41% -14.88% -5.54
TrackPacificGrow 83.75 1/16/2008 Outperform NS $17.00 -25.24% -16.01% -9.23
TrackLazardCapit < 20 11/19/2007 Outperform NS $17.84 -0.11% -14.37% +14.26 9/5/2008 @ $17.82
TrackStifel 94.69 11/16/2007 Outperform NS $18.05 -29.58% -20.18% -9.40
TrackGaryBSmith 22.89 6/29/2007 Outperform 3W $17.56 -27.62% -22.76% -4.86
TrackCarisandCo 80.71 2/16/2007 Outperform NS $11.83 +20.46% -34.87% +55.33 7/20/2009 @ $14.25
TrackCollinsStew 68.55 10/4/2006 Outperform NS $13.85 -3.83% +7.09% -10.92 1/23/2007 @ $13.32
TrackMatrix 90.36 8/29/2006 Underperform NS $11.00 +15.55% -9.82% -25.37

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