November 13, 2020
In this blog post, the Bloom Burton equity research team summarizes the performance of the Canadian healthcare sector during 3Q-2020 and provides commentary on select stock movements and overall market trends.
Our analysis includes all Canadian publicly listed healthcare companies, defined as companies that are Canadian headquartered and/or listed on Canadian exchanges, with an enterprise value (EV) of C$10 MM or greater. Our definition of healthcare includes companies operating in the following areas: therapeutic R&D; commercial therapeutics; healthcare services; healthcare IT; medical devices; medical supplies; diagnostics; and consumer health. We do not include medical cannabis producers (unless they are developing cannabis-based products under the traditional drug development regulatory process) or companies that operate long-term care facilities. Based on these criteria we identified 103 companies.
We classify companies as “Tier 1” and “Tier 2” based on their EV – Tier 1 companies are those with EV of >C$100 MM and Tier 2 are those with EV of <C$100 MM (for a complete listing of companies included in Tiers 1 and 2 of Bloom Burton’s “blog universe”, please see Appendix 1 at the end of the blog).
Among the healthcare subsectors in Bloom Burton’s Canadian tracking universe, the best performing subsector was healthcare IT (5 companies: +83.9%), although the subsector contains only 5 companies and individual company outperformance can strongly skew the group’s return (CloudMD Software & Services Inc. up +223.1%). The worst performing subsector was therapeutics R&D (37 companies: +3.6%), although all subsectors had a positive return in the quarter (consumer health, 8 companies: +24.9%; medical devices, 17 companies: +20.4%; medical supplies, 4 companies: +20.3%; healthcare services, 16 companies: +17.3%; diagnostics, 4 companies: +13.9%; commercial therapeutics, 12 companies: +7.7%).
Notable Tier 1 advancers in the quarter were:
Notable Tier 1 decliners in the quarter were:
Notable advancers in the quarter include:
Notable decliners in the quarter include:
Appendix 1
Disclosures:
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Company Specific Disclosures
1. Bloom Burton & Co. or its affiliates have provided investment banking services for Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc. during the 12 months preceding the date of issuance of the research report or recommendation.
2. Bloom Burton has managed an offering of Antibe Therapeutics Inc., ESSA Pharma Inc., Greenbrook TMS Inc., Medicenna Therapeutics Corp., Trillium Therapeutics Inc., Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc. and Titan Medical Inc. during the 12 preceding the date of issuance of the research report or recommendation.
3. Bloom Burton & Co. and its affiliates collectively beneficially own more than 1% of the outstanding common shares of Nuvo Pharmaceuticals Inc., Mimi’s Rock Corp., Newtopia Inc., Appili Therapeutics Inc., Avivagen Inc. and NeuPath Health Inc.
4. The research analyst responsible for the report or recommendation or any individuals directly involved in the preparation of the report hold or are short the securities of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals Inc., Xenon Pharmaceuticals Inc., Hamilton Thorne Ltd., Bellus Health Inc., Trillium Therapeutics Inc., ESSA Pharma Inc., Correvio Pharma Corp. and Greenbrook TMS Inc. directly or through derivatives.
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