Navidea Biopharmaceuticals Inc (NAVB) This Just In: Upgrades and Downgrades

Fool biotech analyst Brian Orelli has an even more specific suggestion: Instead of putting all your eggs in one profitless and cash-burning egg-basket like Dendreon or Navidea, or hoping that an ETF -- the contents of which you're not quite sure of -- will keep you safe, buy shares of a bigger, more stable company like Abbott (NYSE:ABT) Labs or Myriad Genetics (NASDAQ:MYGN) . As Brian notes, both companies are developing tests to confirm how specific drugs will work upon specific patients -- an integral part of personalized medicine.

More importantly, both stocks sport valuations that while not exactly cheap, are at least reasonable. Abbott, at eight times trailing earnings, is the better "value" candidate, even if it's only expected to grow earnings at the rate of a percent or two per year over the next five years. Myriad, at a bit less than 20 times earnings, but growing at 15%, is the "growth stock" option in this pair.

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