BioCentury
ARTICLE | Finance

Divergence

July 11, 1994 7:00 AM UTC

Our grapevine has revealed one or two small rumblings by biotech companies thinking about responding to their low share prices by buying back stock.

The appeal is the ability to buy back shares at prices a fraction of what they were when the companies went public - prices shareholders and companies alike may see as grossly unfair - while, one hopes, propping up prices at the same time...