Cerus
This little-known health care company has been battered and offers an incredible entry point, and Wood owns over 20 million shares. Cerus Corp. (NASDAQ: CERS) operates as a biomedical products company that focuses on developing and commercializing the Intercept Blood System, a proprietary technology for controlling biological replication that is designed to reduce blood-borne pathogens in donated blood components intended for transfusion.
The Intercept Blood System for platelets and plasma is designed to inactivate blood-borne pathogens in platelets and plasma donated for transfusion. The Intercept Blood System for red blood cells inactivates blood-borne pathogens in red blood cells donated for transfusion. And the Intercept Blood System for cryoprecipitation uses its plasma system to produce pathogen-reduced cryoprecipitated fibrinogen complex for the treatment and control of bleeding, including massive hemorrhage associated with fibrinogen deficiency, as well as pathogen reduced plasma, cryoprecipitate reduced.
The company sells platelet and plasma systems through its direct sales force and distributors in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere.
Cantor Fitzgerald has set a $9 target price, and Cerus stock has a consensus target of $7.63. On Friday, shares traded at $2.90.
Genius Sports
This sports-betting-related stock just signed a big-time partnership with the NFL, and Wood owns over 5 million shares. Genius Sports Ltd. (NYSE: GENI) develops and sells technology-led products and services to the sports, sports betting and sports media industries.
The company offers technology infrastructure for the collection, integration and distribution of live data of sports leagues; streaming solutions, comprising of technology, automatic production and distribution for sports to commercialize video footage of their games; and end-to-end integrity services to sports leagues, such as full-time active monitoring technology, which uses mathematical algorithms to identify and flag suspicious betting activity in global betting markets, as well as full suite of online and offline educational and consultancy services.
Genius Sports also provides live sports data collection; pre-game and in-game odds feeds; risk management services, including customer profiling, monitoring of incoming bets, automated acceptance and rejection of bets, and limit setting; live streaming services; creation, delivery and measurement services for personalized online marketing campaigns; and fan engagement widgets for digital publishers that offer live game statistics and betting-related content.
Citigroup’s price objective of $9 is slightly higher than the $8 consensus target. Genius Sports stock traded at $7.50 on Friday.
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