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Secondary Recommendation

BTG - Blockbuster hopes for new varicose vein treatment

July 2008

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

  • Epic Code:
  • BGC
  • Price:
  • 159p
BTG (FT sector: Pharmaceuticals & Biotech) was originally set up by the Government sixty years ago to capture the financial benefits of the UK’s new scientific discoveries, with the aim of developing and commercialising all intellectual property belonging to early stage drugs and technologies that had been funded by the taxpayer. By the time it floated in 1995, its remit had broadened into acquiring early stage technologies from UK universities and industry and the result is that it now receives a nice pool of royalty income worth £25m a year from a battery of patents, which are zealously policed by a team of lawyers.It sounds like a relatively easy life and indeed last year it made nearly £9m after tax, with its establish ...

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