By BILL PATALON, Money Morning • September 24, 2018
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I first unveiled this "baby biotech" to my Private Briefing subscribers in our very first publication.
And it's been a huge winner for them since then.
Your "win" was extended by a big day last Wednesday when bullish news about a drug this company is working on with partner Gilead Sciences Inc. (NASDAQ: GILD) shot our stock up 16.5%.
In short, the stock I'm showing you today is a proverbial "10-Bagger" – the Holy Grail of stock picking. Heck, it almost became a "13-Bagger."
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Stopping Good Cells from Doing Bad Things
The stock is none other than biotech Galapagos NV (NASDAQ: GLPG). And its Sept. 12 close at an all-time record high of $119.71 means the Belgium-based specialist in "orphan drugs" has zoomed 1,292% from our August 2011 recommendation price of $8.60 a share.
Galapagos zoomed last Wednesday after the two partners revealed late Tuesday that a new drug meant to help combat rheumatoid arthritis (RA) achieved its goals in a phase 3 study – the last class of studies whose success paves the way for a "new drug application" for U.S. Food and Drug Administration approval.
After the market closed Tuesday, the two drugmakers said the RA drug – known as filgotinib – hit key goals in this study. The patients in this study had previously experienced an "inadequate" response to other drugs. But not from filgotinib.
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Filgotinib is what is known as a "JAK1 inhibitor." This stands for Janus kinase inhibitors (or jakinibs) and is a type of medicine that blunts the family of JAK enzymes. And that, in turn, interferes with something called the JAK-STAT signaling pathway.
This signaling pathway is like a high-speed communications cable that carries chemical signals that originated outside of a cell right into the cell's nucleus. These "signals" are like instruction sets that help guide such physiological processes as immunity, cell division, cell death, and even tumor formation.
When there's a problem with that cell-signaling process, released enzymes can cause inflammatory and immune responses like those seen in RA.
By "inhibiting" the JAK1, JAK2, and JAK3 enzymes, research has shown Jakinibs can blunt those maladies.
As I know from the many years I've spent covering biotech – first as a journalist, and now as an analyst, guru, and stock-picker – this capability is a big deal.
Credit Suisse analyst Vamil Divan believes filgotinib can become a $2.5 billion drug. And he says there's an 80% probability it will be approved.
Research seems to show that the drug is more effective than rivals – and with fewer side effects.
"These data are particularly encouraging as we look ahead to phase 3 results from the ongoing […] trials, which are exploring filgotinib in other populations of patients with rheumatoid arthritis," said Gilead Chief Science Officer John McHutchison in making the announcement.
The two companies are also investigating filgotinib for other diseases, including Crohn's disease.
And Galapagos says its core technology has shown promise with inflammatory diseases, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, and atopic dermatitis.
We'll be looking more closely at this stock – and several other big winners that still have room to run right here in the coming weeks. So be sure to stop back.
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