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Biotech stock #2: Questcor Pharmaceuticals (QCOR)

biotech stocks questcorImagine a company with 90%-plus margins and huge cashflow that uses its cash to carefully expand its business and buy back stock -- with a P/E under 8! That's Questcor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: QCOR).

QCOR has a treatment that is approved for spasms from multiple sclerosis, but is mostly used to treat radical infantile spasms that kill or retard babies.

Your best strategy for life-changing profits?

Buy the stock and wait for it to appreciate or for the company to get bought out. You could also buy the (illiquid) options, or buy the stock and sell the calls.

Next: Biotech Stock #3

Six bang-for-your-buck biotech stocks

biotech stocksLast year, as the market sank, one group actually went up -- large-cap, cashflow positive biotech and genomics companies.

This year, interest has shifted to the little guys -- the speculative biotech stocks that could be 10- or 20-baggers with one breakthrough.

Here are six biotech stocks with the potential to deliver life-changing profits:

Biotech Stock #1: Gilead Sciences (NASDAQ: GILD)
Biotech Stock #2: Questcor Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: QCOR)

Biotech Stock #3: Cepheid (NASDAQ: CPHD)
Biotech Stock #4: Curis (NASDAQ: CRIS)
Biotech Stock #5: Cerus Corp. (NASDAQ: CERS)
Biotech Stock #6: Illumina (NASDAQ: ILMN)

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Last updated: November 26, 2009: 04:34 AM

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