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2007-11-04
ENSG - Ensign Group

ENSG - Ensign Group plans on offering 4 million shares at a range of $18-$20. DA Davidson and Stifel are co-lead managing the deal. Post-ipo ENSG will have 20.5 million shares outstanding for a market cap of $390 million on a pricing of $19. Ipo proceeds will be used to acquire additional facilities, to upgrade existing facilities, pay down debt and for working capital and other general corporate purposes.

CEO and President Christopher R. Christensen will own 20% of ENSG post-ipo.

From the prospectus:

'We are a provider of skilled nursing and rehabilitative care services through the operation of facilities located in California, Arizona, Texas, Washington, Utah and Idaho.'

ENSG owns or leases 61 facilities. All are skilled nursing facilities while four also are assisted living facilities. ENSG owns 23 facilities and leases 38 others. They've options to purchase on 16 of those 38. Current bed count is 7,400. ENSG has aggressively grown via acquisitions adding 15 new facilities since 1/1/06. 31 of 61 facilities are in California, 13 in Arizona and 10 in Texas. Total occupancy rates for 2007 has been 78%.

Sector - The senior living and long-term care industries consist of three primary living arrangement alternatives, independent living facilities, assisted living facilities and skilled nursing facilities. ENSG operates primarily skilled nursing facilities, those that require the most resident care. Skilled nursing facilities provide both short-term, post-acute rehabilitative care for patients and long-term custodial care for residents who require skilled nursing and therapy care on an inpatient basis. ENSG estimates the skilled nursing facility market in the US is a $100 billion segment annually. ENSG believes the skilled nursing facility segment stands to grow going forward due to increasing life expectancies and the aging population.

Medicare is a federal health age based program, Medicaid is a federal health needs based program. ENSG relies extensively on Medicaid/Medicare reimbursements.

Approximately 44% of all revenues are derived from Medicaid, 33% from Medicare. Simplified Medicare will generally cover skilled nursing facility stays up to 100 days annually. After day 100, patients’ payment is received from either the patient, private health insurance or Medicaid. With 44% of all revenues derived from Medicaid, it is fairly safe to state a large portion of ENSG's residents are shifted from Medicare to Medicaid at some point for the bulk of their annual stay. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) sets the Medicare rates. Skilled nursing centers have fared relatively favorably with the CMS this decade, however payments rates have been frozen for FY '08 due to budgetary attempts to cut overall Medicare/Medicaid costs. Medicaid is a bit different animal. Medicaid funding across the board has seen freezes and/or decreases due to federal and state budget issues. Medicaid is primarily funded by the Federal government, but disbursed by the states. Keep in mind that ENSG will annually be at the whim of federal Medicare rates set for skilled nursing centers and Medicaid disbursement rates set by the states. With runaway health care costs, trends for annual increases in Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement rates are not favorable going forward.

Financials

*ENSG will have approximately $1 per share in cash (minus debt) post-ipo. This is a good sign. Usually roll-up type operations such as nursing facilities come public pretty significantly leveraged. ENSG's solid balance sheet on ipo will allow them to aggressively grow over the next 2-3 years. Expect ENSG to grow revenues much faster than the industry growth rate the next 1-2 years due to acquisitions. When looking at this type of ipo, balance sheet health is as important (if not more) than any other factor. Nursing facilities are both a slim margin and consolidating sector. A solid balance sheet post-ipo allows a company such as ENSG to not only flow more operating margin to the bottom line, but grow top/bottom line strongly first few years public. I like the balance sheet here post-ipo quite a bit.

ENSG does plan on paying a dividend. Based on the past 12 months, it appears the dividend will be approximately $0.04 quarterly. At $0.16 annually, ENSG would yield 0.8% annually on a $19 pricing.

3 X's book value on a pricing of $19.

Growth going forward will be driven by acquisitions as the current Medicaid/Medicare reimbursement environment is not favorable for significant rate increases. ENSG's operating margins are not going to increase in this reimbursement environment, in fact they've dipped slightly in 2007. This is an industry wide trend, not specific to ENSG. This environment makes it even more important for a strong balance sheet and lack of debt.

Revenues in 2005 were $301 million, 2006 $359 million and through the first three quarters of 2007 on pace for $409 million.

ENSG has had a net profit annually since at least 2002.

2007 - Revenues on pace for $409 million, a 14% increase over 2006. Gross margins 19%. Operating margins of approximately 8 1/2%. Net margins 5%. Earnings per share should be in the $0.90 - $0.95 range. On a pricing of $19, ENSG would trade 21 X's 2007 earnings.

2008 - I fully expect ENSG to utilize their solid balance sheet to acquire revenue growth. Based on third quarter revenues, a full year operating current facilities should increase revenues by 10%. I think acquisitions could add another 5%, for a 15% top-line revenue growth. Gross margins will remain 19%, operating margins may increase slightly filtering down to a small net margin increase. With this sector it is extremely difficult to grow margins so you're just never going to see operating margins expand too much here no matter the revenue growth. With a 15% top-line growth rate, ENSG should earn $1.20 per share. On a pricing of $19, ENSG would trade 16 X's 2008 earnings.

Recent IPO SKH operates in the same sector as ENSG. The big difference between the two is SKH is heavily leveraged while ENSG post-ipo will have more cash on hand than debt.

SKH - $588 million market cap, operates approximately 80 skilled nursing facilities. Currently trading less than 1 X's 2008 revenues and 17 X's 2008 earnings. SKH has approximately 450 million in net debt on the books, much of it high interest debt. SKH has net margins of 3 1/2%.

ENSG - $390 million market cap on a $19 pricing. SKH operates 61 skilled nursing facilities. At $19 would trade less than 1 X's 2008 revenues and 16 X's 2008 earnings. ENSG has $1 per share net CASH on hand post ipo. ENSG has 5% net margins.

Conclusion - ENSG operates in a highly regulated sector experiencing rate freezes or lowered increases going forward. These factors make it nearly impossible for an operation such as ENSG to expand their margins. Top and bottom line growth therefore will come from acquisitions. With this type of business and in this sector you really want to look at operations that have low debt levels which will allow them A) filter more of their slim operating margins to the bottom line and B) allow them plenty of room to grow through acquisitions. I like the balance sheet here and I like the valuation at 16 X's 2008 revenues. Due to the constraints on the sector mentioned above, you don't want to pay too hefty an initial multiple here, but ENSG looks good to me in range. I would especially be interested here on a low pricing/open. Recommend.

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2007-11-07
OZM - Och-Ziff Capital Management

OZM - Och-Ziff Capital Management plans on offering 41.4 million shares at a range of $30-$33. In addition OZM is also making a private offering to Dubai International Capital(DIC). the private offering will constitute an overall 9.9% stake in OZM and the price will be the equivalent of the underwriters discount pricing of OZM's public offering. Based on all ownership stakes post ipo, DIC will purchase approximately 38.2 million shares at a price of $1.50 below ipo price. Goldman Sachs and Lehman are leading the deal, thirteen other firms co-managing. Post-ipo, OZM will have a total of 390.4 shares outstanding for a market cap of $12.4 billion on a pricing of $31.50. All ipo proceeds from both offerings will go to insiders. The insiders will reinvest those proceeds(in their own name) back into Och-Ziff funds.

Daniel Och will own 49% of OZM post ipo. Mr. Och will retain voting control via a separate share class.

In addition to insiders(OZM principals) receiving all ipo proceeds(approximately $2.2 billion), they also declared a special distribution of $750 million payable to them. This payment was made by laying debt onto the back of the soon to be public OZM. Boy I'm so weary of these 'business as usual' shenanigans. Apparently it is not enough to be wealthy beyond wildest dreams, one also needs to pile debt onto the company just prior to coming public to pay yourselves even more money. At some point the market needs to say 'enough' to these greed grabs. Mr. Och will have an equity stake in the public OZM of approximately $6 billion, not counting the approximately $1 billion in cash he'll receive from this offering. Was the extra $750 million(of which Mr. Och stands to receive $350 million) really needed too???? I'm not touching this ipo simply for this reason. I'm tired of these shenanigans with these things. If they're this greedy pre-ipo how well will they treat their silent partners, those buying their public shares? Also Mr. Och will receive deferred income distributions totaling ans additional $1 billion during a three-year period beginning in 2008.

From the prospectus:

'We are a leading international, institutional alternative asset management firm and one of the largest alternative asset managers in the world, with approximately $30.1 billion of assets under management for over 700 fund investors as of September 30, 2007.'

OZM has been in operations 13 years. OZM is a hedge fund and operation focusing on "Risk-adjusted returns". Risk adjusted returns are based on the income generated from primary investment positions while also being hedged to limit risks from market changes, interest rate fluctuations, currency movements, geopolitical events and other risks. OZM goes out of their way to state they look for long term value and to mitigate risk.

OZM derives revenues from management fees and incentive income. Management fees are based on total assets under management and average 1.50% - 2.50% of assets. Incentive income is realized and unrealized gains generated by the funds that managed by OZM. Incentive income is typically equal to 20% of the net realized and unrealized profits earned. Pretty standard hedge fund revenue structure. OZM's partners(managing directors) receive nearly all their income payments from participation in the profits of our entire business.

Assets under management have grown impressively. OAM had $11.4 billion under management end of 2004, $15.6 end of 2005, $22.6 end of 2006 and $30.1 billion on 9/30/07.

OZM's flagship global multi-strategy fund is the OZ Master Fund. **Note** - The OZ Master Fund has lagged the S&P 500 in each of the following periods: one year performance 3% behind S&P 500; three year performance 0.6% lower than S&P 500; five year performance 1.6% behind the S&P 500. The OZ Master fund has averaged a 13.9% return over the past five years compared to a 15.5% average annual return for the S&P 500. An S&P 500 ETF held the past five years would have returned more than the OZ Master Fund which takes a % of assets as well as a % of gains annually as revenue.

The OZ Master fund holds approximately 63% of OZM's assets under management.

OZM had a losing quarter overall in their funds for the quarter of 9/30/07. This was the first quarter for OZM to not experience appreciation of assets since spring of 2003.

Financials

$750 million in debt-post ipo. As noted ipo all this debt was taken on to pay insiders a 'special dividend.'

OZM intends to pay quarterly dividends. They state, 'Our intention is to distribute to our Class A shareholders on a quarterly basis substantially all of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC’s net after-tax share of Och-Ziff Operating Group annual economic income in excess of amounts determined by us to be necessary or appropriate to provide for the operation and growth.' As OZM does not factor in incentive income until the year end, assuming OZM's funds are net positive annually the fourth quarter distribution stands to be larger than the other three quarters.

Note - OZM is heavily invested in their own funds. This greatly increases OZM's profit when their funds appreciate as they've done annually the past five. However this also means losses can hit even harder. OZM derives approximately 2/3's of their operating revenues annually from incentive fees. These incentive fees are based on a percentage of annual gains in OZM's funds. OZM's gains from investing in their own funds has the past 7 quarters equaled 1/2 their operating profit. If OZM had a flat year overall in their funds for 2006 for example, they would have had nearly $1 billion less in inventive fees and funds gains putting them deeply in the red for the year. You do not want to be in OZM if they ever have a bad year. Not only will there be no distributions, the losses per share will be pretty staggering. **Essentially the public OZM is making a significant bet that OZM's funds can continue to perform well year in and year out. Also OZM's managing directors also appear to have much of their net worth tied up into OZM equity and investments in OZM funds. Everyone involved here is making a big bet OZM continues to perform. Keep in mind, if OZM has a flat year in their funds, dividends and earnings will disappear pretty quickly.

As with Fortress and Blackstone, OZM's financials are intricate and difficult to grasp.

2006 - Total revenues were $972 million. 2/3's of this revenue came from incentive fees, 1/3 from management fees. Compensation and benefits were 50% of revenues. Gains from investments in their own funds added $242 million to the bottom line. Pre-tax, OZM earnings $1.50 per share. If we plugged in taxes, earnings would be approximately $1 per share.

2007 - As OZM does not factor in incentive fee revenues until after the fourth quarter closes, net here is negative through nine months. Note that this is a change from the first nine months of 2006 directly due to a pretty significant bump up in compensations expenses. If we're to factor in incentive fees for the full year 2007, I would imagine revenues will be closer to $1.2 billion. Earnings per share should be in the ballpark of 2006, again due to a sharp increase in compensation expenses. OZM looks as if they'll earn again in the $1-$1.50 ballpark. Note that these numbers are highly fluid and much depends on the amount in incentive fees, OZM books on the close of 12/31/07.

Due to all the accounting changes as well as equity distributions and compensation and benefits, OZM's pre-ipo financials are dense and tricky. going forward keep in mind OZM is heavily leveraged in their own funds in the form of actual investments in their funds and the heavy reliance on incentive fees. As long as OZM's funds post solid annual gains, OZM will put on a solid bottom line. If OZM's funds have a hiccup in a given year, OZM can easily slip into the red on the bottom line.

Conclusion - complex dense financial statements in a deal in which insiders are making out extraordinarily well. What strikes me is that in the one, three and five year periods, OZM's flagship fund has underperformed the S&P 500. Why? Well because OZM takes not just 2% of assets under management for fees, but they also grab 20% of the profits annually. Why pay someone this much when your return is lagging the S&P 500? OZM has done well growing assets under management in the hedge fund boom this decade. At $12 billion+ market cap though, there are enough question marks and negative to keep me away in range.

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2007-10-29
GRO - Agria Corporation

GRO - Agria Corporation plans to offer 19.7 ADS(assuming over-allotments) at a range of $14.50-$16.50. Insiders will be selling 5.5 million ADS in the ipo. Credit Suisse is lead managing the deal, HSBC, Piper Jaffray and CIBC are co-managing. Post-ipo GFO will have 65.5 million ADS equivalent shares outstanding for a market cap of $1.02 billion on a $15.50 pricing. IPO proceeds will be used to fund capital expenditures, for R&D and for general corporate purposes.

An entity co-controlled by Chairman of the Board and CEO Guanglin Lai and Director Zhaohua Qian will own 60% of GRO post-ipo.

From the prospectus:

'We are a fast-growing China-based agri-solutions provider engaged in research and development, production and sale of upstream agricultural products.'

Yes yet another China ipo. GRO sells corn seeds, sheep breeding products, and seedling products. corn seeds account for 48% of revenues, sheep breeding products 40% and seedling products 12%. Gross margins for each segments are: corn seeds 41%, sheep breeding products 73% and seedling products 79%.

GRO has access to 27,000 acres of farmland in seven provinces of China, of which approximately 23,000 acres are used for production of corn seeds, approximately 3,700 acres are used for sheep farming and breeding activities and the remainder are used for seedling production and research and development activities. Note that GRO does not own their own farmland, as apparently they are legally prohibited to own farmland. Instead they rely for the most part on contractual agreements with village collectives. GRO owns 17,000 sheep and sells frozen sheep semen, sheep embryos and breeder sheep. Through the first six months of 2007 GRO sold approximately 14,400 tonnes of corn seeds, 10.6 million straws of frozen sheep semen, 4,980 sheep embryos, 1,760 breeder sheep, 14,400 Primalights III hybrid sheep and a total of 11.6 million seedlings. Seedling products predominantly include blackberry, raspberry, date and pine bark seedlings.

Sector - China's agricultural sector is growing, note however the growth has lagged China GDP growth in recent years. The agricultural sector accounts for 10% of China's GDP and has grown 8% average annually the past five years. China is the world's second largest corn producer accounting for 19% of worldwide-corn production. China has the largest sheep flock in the world at an estimated 171 million sheep.

Financials

$2 per share in cash post-ipo, no debt.

3 X's book value on a pricing of $15.50.

While corn seed still accounts for 45%-50% of revenues, corn seed revenues have been stagnant for 2 1/2 years now. Revenue growth has been driven by sheep breeding revenues and seedling products.

Annual revenues have been: 2004 - $20 million; 2005 - $50 million; 2006 - $60 million; 2007 - on pace for $65 million.

GRO has been profitable since 2002.

Note that revenues are seasonal with the June and December quarters annually being the strongest. As GRO sells barely any corn feed in the September quarter, that Q is by far the weakest. Expect a seasonally weak report when GRO releases their 9/30/07 quarterly earnings report.

2007 - Revenues appear on pace for $65 million, a 5%-10% increase over 2006. Gross margins should be 57%. GRO has very little operational expense as they contract with village collectives for most of the work, which is factored into gross margins. Actually looking at the strong gross margins here for GRO, I'd think these village collectives might want to consider adjusting their contracts! Operating expense ratio is just 6%. Operating margins should be 51%. Tax rate thus far has been 0%. However it appears going forward GRO's tax rate on earnings will be in the 10% range, so we'll plug that percentage into 2007 earnings. 46% net margins, earnings per share of $0.45-$0.50. On a pricing of $15.50 GRO would trade 33 X's 2007 earnings.

Conclusion - $1+ billion market cap for a farmings operation that will book $65 million in 2007 revenues, just 10% higher than 2006? The net margins here are strong, but just 10% top line growth and nearly 14 X's revenues for an agricultural operation that has village collectives producing corn seed, sheep and seedlings for them seems awfully excessive. China ipos have been pretty hot in 2007 and we've seen a number of good ones. GRO looks fine as a company, the valuation here seems way off however. Most of the high multiple, highly successful China appears have been sector leaders benefiting directly from the urbanization and growing affluence of the middle class in China. While one could make a tangential case that GRO benefits from the growing China individuals affluence, it is still not a direct link. This is a pass for me, as I've no interest in paying for a $1+ billion cap agricultural operation with $65 million in revenues. In range, this seems like a very lofty price to pay for an operation responsible for producing corn seed, various sheep breeding products and seedlings. Pass in range for me.

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2007-10-27
GXDX - Genoptix

GXDX - Genoptix plans on offering 5 million shares at a range of $14 - $16. Insiders will be selling 700k shares in the deal. Lehman is leading the deal, BofA and Cowen co-managing. Post-ipo GXDX will have 15.6 million shares outstanding for a market cap of $234 million on a pricing of $15. IPO proceeds will be used to 1) increase personnel, (2) establish a second laboratory facility and expand backup systems, (3) repay all outstanding indebtedness and (4) pursue new collaborations or acquisitions.

Enterprise Partners will own 20% of GXDX post-ipo.

From the prospectus:

'We are a specialized laboratory service provider focused on delivering personalized and comprehensive diagnostic services to community-based hematologists and oncologists, or hem/oncs. Our highly trained group of hematopathologists, or hempaths, utilizes sophisticated diagnostic technologies to provide a differentiated, specialized and integrated assessment of a patients condition, aiding physicians in making vital decisions concerning the treatment of malignancies of the blood and bone marrow, and other forms of cancer.'

Cancer laboratory diagnostic operation focusing on malignancies of blood and bone marrow. There are approximately 800,000 patients in the United States living with malignancies or pre-malignant diseases of the blood and bone marrow, with more than 140,000 new cases being diagnosed each year. 60% of GXDX diagnostic cases are bone marrow, 40% blood-based.

In order for hematologists and oncologists to make the correct diagnosis, develop therapies and monitor therapy effectiveness, they require highly specialized diagnostic services. That is where GXDX comes in. 2007 Medicare reimbursement rates average $3,000 for typical bone marrow diagnostic cases and range from $100-$3000 for blood based cases. GXDX estimates there are 350,000 bone marrow procedures performed in the US annually and each one requires at least one bone marrow diagnostic test. GXDX believes the bone marrow diagnostic test market is approximately a $1 billion market in the US; 350,000 procedures with at least one diagnostic battery done on each averaged $3,000 a pop. In addition to the bone marrow diagnostic tests, GXDX believes there are 200,000 blood-based diagnostic tests for liquid and solid tumors performed annually in the United States.

Traditionally these tests have been performed by hospital pathologists, esoteric testing laboratories, national reference laboratories and academic laboratories. GXDX believes historically none of these testing entities effectively served the needs of community based hematologists and oncologists. GXDX states their diagnostic testing services as follows:

'We believe our differentiated services offer the technical expertise of an esoteric testing laboratory, the customer intimacy of a hospital pathologist and the state-of-the-art technology of an academic laboratory, while maintaining a specialized service focus that is not typically available from national reference laboratories that cover a broad range of medical specialties.'

The key differences appear to be:

1) Personalized and comprehensive approach - GXDX assigns a single hempath to guide the diagnostic process for each patient file. This hempath is the person that is responsible for guiding the sample through all diagnostic services and for communication with the hem/oncs. Hematologists and oncologists speak directly to the hempath if and when needed and desired. This appears to be a key differentiator with GXDX and the testing labs that have traditionally provided bone marrow cancer and blood cancer testing.

2) More than just test results - GXDX hempaths provide hem/oncs with a clear, concise and actionable diagnosis rather than just providing individual test results. GXDX is sort of a full service diagnostic shop, not just a testing company.

GXDX two service offerings are COMPASS and CHART. With the COMPASS service offering, the hem/onc authorizes the hempath at GXDX to determine the appropriate diagnostic tests to be performed, and the hempath then integrates patient history and all previous and current test results into a comprehensive diagnostic report. As part of their CHART service offering, the hem/onc also receives a detailed assessment of a patient’s disease progression over time. Approximately 50% of test requisitions in 2007 have been for both the COMPASS and CHART services.

Cartesian Medical Group - GXDX contracts with Cartesian Medical Group to provide all hempaths and an internal medicine specialist. All GXDX hempath physicians are employees of Cartesian, contracted to work for GXDX in GXDX labs. There are approximately 1,500 hempaths licensed in the US with just 75 newly receiving board certification annually.

GXDX estimates their current bone marrow testing market share is 3%.

54% of revenues come from private insurance, including managed care organizations and other healthcare insurance providers, 43% from Medicare and Medicaid and 3% from other sources.

Financials

$5 per share in cash post-ipo, no debt. Note that GXDX will be using $2-$3 per share in cash of ipo monies to construct a second lab testing facility and to hire personnel.

Often these small medical ipos come public way too early in their revenue profit curves. The reason is simple: They need the ipo cash to fund growth attempts. I like here that GXDX did not come public before generating significant revenues and turning a nice operating profit. Personally I'd like to see much more of this as it really gives us far more information to make a good buying decision. I am thrilled that GXDX did not attempt to come public in 2005 when revenues were still in development stage and there was doubt as to whether GXDX would be successful in grabbing bone marrow cancer and blood cancer diagnostic services from the traditional sources. Here in the fall of 2007, we can clearly see GXDX has been wildly successful, very quickly grabbing market share in this niche.

Revenue growth has been nothing short of phenomenal. Start-up stage in 2004 (GXDX did not begin offering their services until 3rd quarter of 2004), revenues in 2005 were $5 million, in 2006 $24 million and on pace in 2007 for $55-$60 million. 10+ straight quarter of sequential revenue growth. *At just a $234 million market cap this revenue growth rate in a very specialized niche is reason enough to recommend this ipo very strongly.*

It gets better too. GXDX moved into operational profitability in the first quarter of 2007 and in the 6/30/07 quarter booked operating margins of 28%. For a company attempting to grab a foothold in a highly specialized niche, you nearly always see them spending massively on sales & marketing to grow revenues as fast as GXDX. Hasn't been the case here, there appears to be extremely strong organic demand for GXDX services. Sales and marketing expenses were just 20% of revenues in the 3/07 quarter and dipped to only 17% of revenues in the 6/30/07 quarter. In hard dollars, GXDX doubled revenues in the 6/07 quarter when compared to the 12/06 quarter yet spent just the same each quarter on sales and marketing expenses. This is perfect in what you want to see with small fast growing ipos.

The three paragraphs above are reasons to get very excited about this GXDX ipo as you rarely see all these highly positive combinations in one ipo, let alone an ipo that was in start up stage just 3-4 years prior. This is just outstanding stuff here, this GXDX ipo in range is a 'goose bump' ipo.

Provisions for doubtful accounts has run around 4% in 2007.

GXDX has sufficient tax loss carryovers to cover the bulk of 2007's earnings. We'll take a look at earnings untaxed and also plugging in normalized taxes as GXDX should begin normal tax rates by mid 2008.

2007 - Revenues are on track here for $55-$60 million. Gross margins are increasing quarterly and full year should be 61% for the full year. Operating expense ratio is dropping quarterly as well. Increasing revenues, coupled with increasing gross margins and lowering operating expense ratios is a recipe for fast bottom line growth. Full year operating expense ratio should come in at 34%. Operating margins should be 27%. Untaxed net earnings will be around $1 per share. Plugging in full taxes GXDX should earn $0.65 in 2007.

Pricing range of $14-$16 is much too low here for all the positives. GXDX has plenty of room to continue growing as they're going to make $0.65 in only their third full year of operations and garnering just 3% of the bone marrow cancer testing segment. Strong recommend in range, this is the one to pay up significantly for as well. Fantastic ipo.