Organovo Celebrates Economist Technology Quarterly Coverage
In its coverage, the Economist's Technology Quarterly describes:
- the role of Organovo Scientific Founder Prof. Gabor Forgacs in foundational work in the bioprinting field;
- the potential of
Organovo's bioprinted 3D Liver tissues to improve pharmaceutical toxicity testing; Organovo's technology advantage in being able to make 100% cellular tissues; andOrganovo's work in early animal studies to create simple tissues for direct surgical implantation to treat patients; and other details of the company's strategy, technology, and operations.
In putting together their detailed coverage, the Economist's Technology Quarterly had a scientific writer visit the company, receive access to the company's facilities, and review and interview many others in the space.
As regards certain other information outlets,
While some errors may be unintentional or simply sloppy, on some occasions it is possible that some authors may be following a "Short and Distort" strategy, where they purposefully create a negative picture after taking a short position.
- Use phrases like "Trading Warning" or "Urgent" explicitly intended to cause fear and based on no new publicly released information about the Company;
- Be written by a person with a short position and focused on negative details – with little balanced discussion of positives and negatives about the Company;
- Be written by an individual with no known track record in investing or equity analysis, no known scientific qualifications, or in fact no affiliation with any entity known to the investor which could provide any confidence in his or her qualifications;
- Pretend to have a greater understanding of
Organovo's SEC filings, especially in regards to potential future financings or share registrations, and proceed to interpret them selectively in unbalanced ways; - Be excessively focused on
Organovo's path to becoming public through reverse merger, ignoring the fact that the company's subsequent fully underwritten secondary offering at >$40M , with full investment bank diligence, removes consideration ofOrganovo under the typical reverse merger listing standards by bothNYSE and NASDAQ; - Overemphasize
Organovo's lack of current revenue as somehow indicative of the promise of its future products rather than its status as a development stage biotechnology company; - Highlight and demonize the potential for future financing instead of recognizing it as beneficial for shareholders under the right conditions;
- Focus on
Organovo's institutional investor holdings without noting that these holdings have grown significantly since early 2013, or without noting that the company conducted a financing round inAugust 2013 that consisted nearly entirely of seasoned institutional biotech investment funds; - Cherry pick negative details for past companies where
Organovo executives played roles, without discussion of the multiple successful roles the same executives have played in companies acquired for nine-figure sums, or their participation in product development for products and product lines currently generating revenue in the billions of dollars; - Compare
Organovo's public company executive salaries, including non-founders, to private startup founders for earlier stage companies rather than peer companies; - Denigrate
Organovo's partnerships or doubt their existence – when review of all of the company's relationships with these groups, including reviewing full contract detail and conducting direct discussions with the partner companies, is performed by investment bankers as part of diligence for underwritten deals such asOrganovo's sale of securities onAugust 1, 2013 ; - Refer to an EnvisionTEC Bioplotter that prints biomaterials suitable for scaffolds as a "bioprinter", and compare it to bioprinting instruments designed to create living human tissue from cellular inks; or
- Refer to other
Organovo short thesis article sources as if they were excellent points of reference (e.g., cross referencing other writers on the same website, referring to Nanalyze, or even pointing to the personally maintained webpage of an "online commentator" whose sole previous qualification and experience in analysis is literally writing comments on websites).
The company would like to help investors judge such content appropriately, and point out the risks of encountering false information. The company would like to stress that in providing information in regards to such sites or reports to investors, it is not claiming that all articles with a negative connotation are false. In addition, not every positive article regarding the company may be balanced with the potential risks and uncertainties the company faces. For these reasons,
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