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- National Post
Vecima to Highlight Efficient, AI-powered Video Streaming and Innovative Monetization Solutions at IBC 2025
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Cision Canada
5 hours ago
- Cision Canada
SOPHiA GENETICS expands collaboration with AstraZeneca using AI to improve breast cancer patient outcomes
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AstraZeneca will utilize SOPHiA GENETICS's AI Factories to analyze multimodal healthcare data — including genomics, imaging, and clinical data — and generate AI-powered insights to help optimize breast cancer outcomes. The companies will also collaborate on real-world evidence generation in Europe and North America to uncover key drivers of treatment efficacy, address critical knowledge gaps, and enhance clinical decision-making through deeper insights. "We are proud to deepen our partnership with AstraZeneca through this significant new initiative, which highlights the growing demand for secure, compliant, and scalable real-world AI applications," said Ross Muken, President of SOPHiA GENETICS. "Our platform is purpose-built to manage complex healthcare data environments, and this collaboration reinforces our shared commitment to driving better patient outcomes through trusted, federated analytics powered by data and AI." "At AstraZeneca, a core component of our AI strategy has been rooted in the deployment of frontier AI solutions across oncology clinical development," said Jorge Reis-Filho, Chief AI and Data Scientist, AstraZeneca. "Fine tuning and augmenting our models with multimodal data – including our own data and the data that will be generated as part of this collaboration – is helping us to generate a more holistic understanding of disease biology and biomarkers to tailor the most effective treatment to patients living with cancer." This collaboration reinforces SOPHiA GENETICS' position as a trusted technology partner and underlines its commitment to advancing global health through federated data analytics and artificial intelligence. For more information on SOPHiA GENETICS, visit or connect on LinkedIn. About SOPHiA GENETICS SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH) is a cloud-native healthcare technology company on a mission to expand access to data-driven medicine by using AI to deliver world-class care to patients with cancer and rare disorders across the globe. It is the creator of the SOPHiA DDM™ Platform, which analyzes complex genomic and multimodal data and generates real-time, actionable insights for a broad global network of hospital, laboratory, and biopharma institutions. For more information, visit and connect with us on LinkedIn. SOPHiA GENETICS products are for Research Use Only and not for use in diagnostic procedures unless specified otherwise. The information in this press release is about products that may or may not be available in different countries and, if applicable, may or may not have received approval or market clearance by a governmental regulatory body for different indications for use. 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Globe and Mail
6 hours ago
- Globe and Mail
Bull of the Day: Netflix, Inc. (NFLX)
Investors can buy Netflix, Inc. ( NFLX ) stock roughly 15% below its all-time highs and at some of its most oversold RSI levels over the past few years to start August. Netflix easily outperformed the stock market and the Tech sector over the last several years, without the benefit of artificial intelligence euphoria. The streaming TV and technology giant is also far less exposed to potential tariff and trade war setbacks compared to many of its big tech peers. Wall Street took profits on Netflix stock throughout July after its furious first-half rally that's part of a 550% surge off its summer 2022 lows. Despite this charge, and its massive long-term outperformance, Netflix offers investors great value. Investors sold the news after the streamer's beat-and-raise second quarter earnings release on July 17, which confirmed Netflix's robust growth outlook in a non-speculative and stable growth area of the economy that's not reliant on the AI revolution. This backdrop makes Netflix one of the best technology stocks to buy in the second half of 2025. Is Netflix the Best Non-AI Tech Stock to Buy Now? Netflix stock tumbled between November 2021 and July 2022 as Wall Street feared its growth days were numbered and that it wouldn't be able to churn out huge profits like Apple and other mega-cap tech stocks. That selloff seems like a lifetime ago. Netflix successfully addressed all of Wall Street's worst fears and then some, helping the stock blow away all of the Magnificent 7 stocks outside of Nvidia during the past three years. More recently, NFLX has charged 95% higher in the last year, tripling the Zacks Tech sector. NFLX rolled out a lower-cost, ad-supported subscription plan in the fall of 2022. Netflix has also successfully raised prices on its top-tier premium plans while remaining one of the best deals in streaming TV for ad-based plans compared to Disney and other rivals. And the company effectively cracked down on account sharing to help boost user growth. Netflix added 18.9 million paid subscriptions in Q4 2024, marking its largest quarter of net adds on record, topping the Covid-lockdown surge. It closed 2024 with 301.63 million global paid memberships, up 16% year-over-year. NFLX announced last April that it would stop disclosing subscriber growth each quarter starting with the first quarter of 2025, though it will publicize major milestones. The company effectively streamlined its operations, grew its user base, rolled out more content, and, most importantly, expanded its bottom line. Netflix has also improved its balance sheet, and its board authorized an additional $15 billion stock buyback program in early 2025. On a macro level, Netflix doesn't need to spend billions of dollars on data centers or other AI-focused growth efforts to thrive. On a speculative note, NFLX could be due for a stock split, with it trading at around $1,170 a share. Netflix's Growth Plans Are Paying Off Netflix completely transformed Hollywood entertainment and television over the last 15-plus years, turning it into one of the biggest winners on Wall Street. The company remains near the top of the crowded streaming industry despite growing challenges from deep-pocketed rivals such as Apple ( AAPL ) and Amazon, and heavy investments from Disney ( DIS ) and other traditional titans. NFLX's successful expansion into big-budget blockbuster movies and TV and reality TV are helping it thrive as the U.S. and the world cut the cord for good. Live sports were the last hope for linear TV and the biggest market for television advertising. Yet Disney is launching a full-scale direct-to-consumer streaming version of ESPN in the fall at a $29.99 per month price point. Netflix already made its way into live sports, landing deals with the NFL, WWE, boxing, and more. On top of that, it's rolling out more video game content to make it as close to a one-stop entertainment shop as possible. There is growing speculation that Netflix will experiment with user-generated content to help compete against YouTube, which owns the largest share of TV viewing (12%), according to Nielsen, ahead of Disney, Paramount, NBC Universal, and Netflix. NFLX topped our Q2 earnings estimate on July 17 and provided upbeat guidance, with its FY26 consensus up over 5% since then. The company's recently improving earnings outlook earns Netflix a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy) and extends its impressive run of upward earnings revisions. The company confirmed last quarter its plans to 'roughly double ads revenue in 2025.' Separately, The Wall Street Journal reported earlier this year that Netflix is aiming to double its annual revenue by 2030. In the short run, NFLX is projected to increase its revenue by 16% in 2025 and 13% next year to reach nearly $51 billion, doubling its 2020 total. The streaming company more than tripled its earnings between 2020 and 2024. Netflix is expected to grow its EPS by another 31% in 2025 and 23% in FY26, following 65% growth last year. The company is targeting a 29.5% operating margin for 2025, up from 26.8% last year. Buy Netflix Stock On the Dip for Great Value Netflix was one of the best-performing stocks of the 2010s, and it is up 260% since the start of 2020 to outpace Tech's 150%. It soared 415% in the last three years and 550% from its 2022 lows, leaving all of the Magnificent 7 (outside of Nvidia) in the dust. Despite its roughly 15% drop from its June 30 peaks, NFLX is still up 30% in 2025 vs. Tech's 9%. The pullback over the last month has it trading at some of its lowest RSI levels over the past five years, down from some of its highest. The stock is trying to hold its ground near its late April/early May breakout levels and its long-term 21-week moving average. Any drop to Netflix's 200-day would likely represent an even better buying opportunity. But playing the market timing game is no easy task. Image Source: Zacks Investment Research Netflix's pullback might not last much longer since it trades at more than a 90% discount to its 10-year highs and 31% below its 10-year median at 39X forward earnings. On the price-to-earnings-to-growth (PEG) ratio front, Netflix trades in line with Tech at 1.7 despite its massive outperformance and nearly 60% below its five-year highs. Disney's PEG ratio sits at 1.6, yet DIS stock climbed just 14% in the past 10 years. Only $1 to See All Zacks' Buys and Sells We're not kidding. Several years ago, we shocked our members by offering them 30-day access to all our picks for the total sum of only $1. No obligation to spend another cent. 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