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The MassDevice Weekly Checkup: September 28, 2010

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Our Weekly Checkup takes the temperature of the medical device industry’s three largest U.S. clusters: Massachusetts, California and Minnesota.

The MassDevice Indices are weighted according to market capitalization, based on the number of shares outstanding for each company and each Friday’s closing share price.

MassDevice index Massachusetts
The Massachusetts index for the week ended Sept. 24 closed at 5.49, up 2.4 percent compared with the prior week. Since Jan. 1, 2009, when we began tracking these companies, the index has risen 23.8 percent.

MassDevice index Minnesota
The Minnesota index for the week ended Sept. 24 closed at 3.35, up 2.0 percent compared with the prior week. Since Jan. 1, 2009, when we began tracking these companies, the index has risen 13.5 percent.

MassDevice index California
The California index for the week ended Sept. 24 closed at 8.44, up 3.6 percent compared with the prior week. Since Jan. 1, 2009, when we began tracking these companies, the index has risen 98.8 percent.

We also create a composite index of the three regional indices and compare it with four other indices (the S&P 500, the Dow Jones Industrial Average, the Dow’s IHI medical devices index and the NASDAQ exchange):

MassDevice index composite

The Weekly Checkup also compares Monday morning’s opening share prices with their value when the markets close Friday afternoon to calculate the biggest gainers and losers.

Here are the 20 firms that posted the biggest share price gains and losses during the week ended Sept. 24:

The 10 biggest gainers:

  1. Biolase Technology Inc.: 28.43% (open $1.02; close $1.31)
  2. Biopure Corp.: 17.65% (open $0.017; close $0.02)
  3. AdvanSource Biomaterials Corp.: 7.78% (open $0.25; close $0.27)
  4. Interleukin Genetics Inc.: 5.13% (open $0.39; close $0.41)
  5. American Shared Hospital Services: 2.89% (open $2.77; close $2.85)
  6. Thermage Inc. (Solta Medical Inc.): 2.29% (open $1.75; close $1.79)
  7. Acusphere Inc.: 1.56% (open $0.06; close $0.07)
  8. Rochester Medical Corp.: 1.56% (open $10.26; close $10.42)
  9. LeMaitre Vascular Inc.: 1.17% (open $6.82; close $6.90)
  10. Cambridge Heart Inc.: 1.10% (open $0.23; close $0.23)

Sources: Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance.

arrow-downAnd the 10 biggest losers:

  1. HepaLife Technologies: -16.67% (open $0.12; close $0.10)
  2. Pressure BioSciences Inc.: -6.21% (open $1.77; close $1.66)
  3. Imaging3 Inc.: -5.67% (open $0.34; close $0.32)
  4. Hologic Inc.: -4.44% (open $16.68; close $15.94)
  5. Cardica Inc.: -4.15% (open $2.17; close $2.08)
  6. Enteromedics Inc.: -3.39% (open $1.77; close $1.71)
  7. Hansen Medical Inc.: -3.31% (open $1.51; close $1.46)
  8. Oculus Innovative Sciences Inc. (Micromed): -3.27% (open $1.53; close $1.48)
  9. OPTOS: -2.75% (open $109.00; close $106.00)
  10. Dexcom Inc.: -2.34% (open $14.10; close $13.77)

Sources: Google Finance and Yahoo! Finance.

Disclaimer: MassDevice.com’s rankings do not reflect an opinion of companies’ health, prospects or viability. They are intended to provide a snapshot of publicly traded medical device companies and in no way constitute a recommendation to buy or sell any particular security, portfolio of securities, transaction or investment strategy.

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