Polaryx Therapeutics (PLYX) : 3-week performance

Polaryx Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the manufacturing of biotechnology products. Its pipeline of products includes PLX-100, PLX-200, and PLX-300. 

• Sector: Healthcare
• Industry: Biotechnology
• Full Time Employees: 11
• Founded by Hahn-Jun Lee in 2014 
• HQ: Paramus, New Jersey
• https://polaryx.com

The company focuses on developing patient-friendly, orally available small molecule therapies (and some gene therapy candidates) for rare pediatric lysosomal storage disorders (LSDs), such as neuronal ceroid lipofuscinosis (e.g., CLN2, CLN3), Krabbe disease, Sandhoff disease, and others.

• Lead Candidate: PLX-200 (a repurposed oral small molecule, e.g., based on gemfibrozil) targets multiple LSDs by promoting lysosome biogenesis, reducing inflammation, and protecting neuronal function.
• Pipeline: Includes PLX-100, PLX-300 (preclinical combinations), and PLX-400 (preclinical gene therapy).

Zhengye Biotechnology (ZYBT) began trading on the Nasdaq on Tue 7Jan 25

Zhengye Biotechnology Holding Ltd. engages in the manufacture and sale of veterinary vaccines. It offers a range of vaccines, including vaccines for swine, cattle, goats, sheep, poultry, and dogs.

• Founded: 2004
• HQ: Jilin City, China
• Website: jlzybio.com
• Employees: 278

Smithfield Foods (SFD) began trading on the Nasdaq on Tue 28 Jan 25

Smithfield Foods, Inc. manufactures and markets packaged meats and fresh pork in the United States and internationally.

Smithfield Foods, Inc. is a subsidiary of SFDS UK Holdings Limited.

Parent organization: WH Group, a Chinese multinational food and meat processing company that is the world's largest pork producer. The company is headquartered in Hong Kong and is publicly traded. 

world’s largest pork producer; China still owns 90% (?)

2013: Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date.

• Sector: Consumer Defensive
• Industry: Farm Products
• Full Time Employees: 37,417
• Founded in 1936 
• HQ in Smithfield, Virginia
• https://www.smithfieldfoods.com

Ticker: SFD

Smithfield Foods priced 26,086,958 share IPO at $20.00 per share, below the $23-27 expected range

 

 

Smithfield Foods' global headquarters is on the banks of the Pagan River; Smithfield, Virginia

 

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zSpace (ZSPC) began trading on the Nasdaq on Thur 5 Dec 24

zSpace, Inc. engages in the provision of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) educational technology solutions. It offers platform that serves a broad range of critical educational tools designed for K-12 science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) lessons as well as training skilled trades in areas such as health sciences, automotive engineering and repair, Unity3D software programming, and advanced manufacturing. 

Founded by Nancy Clemens and Michael Vesely on October 26, 2006

Headquartered in San Jose, CA

https://zspace.com/

Wing Yip Food (WYHG) began trading on the Nasdaq on Tue 26 Nov 24

Wing Yip Food Holdings Group Ltd. is a holding company. It engages in the business of processing, selling, and distributing cured meat products including cured pork sausages, cured pork meat, and other cured meat products such as cured chicken, cured duck, and cured fish; snack products including ready-to-eat sausages, jerky, duck necks, duck feet, and clay pot rice; and frozen meat products including frozen sausages, frozen beef patties, and frozen chicken breast fillets. The company was 

• Sector: Consumer Defensive
• Industry: Packaged Foods
• Founded on April 24, 2015 
• Headquartered in Zhongshan, China
• https://wingyip-food.com

Viking Holdings (VIK) : 3-week performance

 Ticker: VIK

 

23andMe (ME) began trading on the Nasdaq on Thur 17 June 21

Personalized medicine and at-home genetic testing kit company 23andMe went public on Thursday through a merger with a Richard Branson SPAC, VG Acquisition Corp., in a deal that raised near-$600 million and valued the company at $3.5 billion.

• Sector(s): Healthcare
• Industry: Diagnostics & Research
• Founded in 2006 and is 
• Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California
• http://www.23andme.com

 

 Anne Wojcicki, 23andMe co-founder & CEO (right) celebrates with 23andMe employees after remotely ringing the NASDAQ opening bell at the headquarters of DNA tech company 23andMe in Sunnyvale, California, U.S., June 17, 2021.

Founded by Anne Wojcicki — the former spouse of Google founder Sergey Brin, who was an early investor in the company — 23andMe was created 15 years ago. Along with Ancestry, it has helped pioneer the idea that genetic testing is not just a medical field, but a big consumer business. Its at-home testing kits, which allowed people to learn about their genetic profiles and ancestry by sending a bit of saliva through the mail, ushered in a new era of personalized medicine, though not without controversy.

23andMe, a five-time CNBC Disruptor 50 company, has not had a straight or sure path to success as a public company.

It faced FDA scrutiny earlier in its history; continues to face questions about consumer privacy as it gathers genetic information on millions of individuals; ran into financial challenges in recent years as the market for personalized genetic tests seemed to get saturated; skepticism over the basis for its gene-based risk analysis remains contentious; and as it dives deeper into drug development, a gap in its current customer base and underlying genetic data between a majority European genetic profile and underrepresentation of many minority and ethnic groups.

DigitalOcean (DOCN) began trading on the NYSE on Wed 24 March 2021

DigitalOcean provides self-service cloud SaaS computing infrastructure for small and mid-sized businesses.

• DigitalOcean (DOCN) priced 16.5 mln share IPO at $47.00 per share, at the high end of the expected range of $44-47
• On March 24, DOCN opened at $41.50 in its trading debut, down 12% from its initial public offering price of $47.00.

 

 

CEO Yancey Spruill, joined by John Tuttle, NYSE Vice Chairman and Chief Commercial Officer, rings The Opening Bell®.

DigitalOcean challenges much bigger companies, including Amazon and Microsoft, in the market to provide computing and storage resources that companies can consume to run their software, instead of operating their own data center infrastructure. DigitalOcean has built up a business by keeping its products easy to use. Most of its revenue come from the use of droplets, which are virtual slices of physical servers.

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Paypal (PYPL) began trading on the NASDAQ on 6 July 15

Description

PayPal Holdings, Inc. (PayPal) is a technology platform company, which enables digital and mobile payments on behalf of consumers and merchants around the world. The Company focuses on its consumers, merchants, friends and family to access and move their money through its platform using various devices, such as mobile, tablets, personal computers and wearables. It provides businesses of various sizes to accept payments from merchant Websites, mobile devices and applications, and at offline retail locations through a range of payment solutions across its Payments Platform, including PayPal, PayPal Credit, Venmo and Braintree products. PayPal gateway products include Payflow Payments and Braintree products. The Company enables its consumers to fund a purchase using a bank account, a PayPal account balance, a PayPal Credit account, a credit or debit card, or other stored value products such as coupons and gift cards.

Address

2211 N 1st St
SAN JOSE, CA 95131-2021
United States

Website 

https://about.paypal-corp.com/

Key stats and ratios

	Q1 (Mar '15)	2014
Net profit margin	11.93%	5.22%
Operating margin	15.07%	15.80%
EBITD margin	-	22.23%
Return on average assets	4.60%	2.04%
Return on average equity	12.11%	5.36%
Employees	15,800

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Ruckus Wireless (RKUS): 3 weeks after IPO

Ruckus Wireless Inc (Ruckus) is a provider of Wi-Fi solutions. The Company’s solutions, which it calls Smart Wi-Fi, are used by service providers and enterprises to solve network challenges. The Company’s products include gateways, controllers and access points. These products incorporate its technologies, including Smart Radio, Smart QoS, Smart Mesh, SmartCell and Smart Scaling. The Company sells its products to service providers and enterprises globally, and as of December 31, 2011, had sold its products to over 16,000 end-customers worldwide. During 2012, the Company added over 4,400 new end-customers. The Company’s enterprise end-customers are typically mid-sized organizations in a variety of industries, including hospitality, education, healthcare, warehousing and logistics, corporate enterprise, retail, state and local government and public venues, such as stadiums, convention centers, airports and outdoor public areas.

Address

350 West Java Dr.
SUNNYVALE, CA 94089
United States
+1-650-2654200 (Phone)
+1-408-7382065 (Fax)

Website 

http://www.ruckuswireless.com