Hims & Hers' peptide capabilities may be underappreciated, setting up a strong bounce after peptide news. Per @riyadosofian, it is the only telehealth company with a peptide facility and global distribution system. A strong bounce is expected now as the stock holds outside its wedge. x.com  x.com 

Peptide R&D could be a major tailwind for Nautilus Biotechnology because developers need proteoform data to understand treatment effects. Demand could rise next year if peptide success drives R&D, depending on its rollout and assays. AI-driven biology also needs measurements to validate models regardless of which therapies win. Personalized peptide care is years or a decade away, requiring clinical validation, approval and much cheaper profiling; Nautilus must still prove scale and economics. … Show more

Hims & Hers' peptide business looks undifferentiated with relatively low barriers to entry, since nothing about providing peptides appears proprietary. Its edge would have to be scale and distribution, and it is not clear it is far ahead of other telehealth companies there. @JonahLupton notes Barron's said Hims could own 20% of the peptide market. x.com 

Hims & Hers' newly previewed Peptides+ offering could add a growth vertical to its healthcare platform. Management plans access to sermorelin, glutathione and NAD+; recent regulatory developments may also open a path for BPC-157 and TB-500, subject to further conditions. Rollout and commercial opportunity remain unproven, and margins and execution are still risks. x.com 

Hims & Hers could gain a massive new growth opportunity if peptide access expands after the White House completed its review of the FDA's interim policy. Six peptides, including BPC-157, TB-500 and MOTS-c, could gain expanded access; Hims is preparing treatments. The potential market is $2B-$3B. x.com 

Hims & Hers will keep missing if Eli Lilly protects retatrutide with a biologic patent and traditional GLP-1 prices keep falling. Other peptides beyond GLP-1s are years away, and there are not enough effective and safe ones to drive meaningful revenue. x.com  x.com  x.com 

Eli Lilly's broader biology opportunity leaves far more upside than most appreciate. Q3 earnings crushed estimates as expected: revenue was $24.4B versus $22.6B expected, and adjusted EPS was $7.48 versus $6.50. GLP-1s fund its longer-term drug-discovery platform rather than defining the whole thesis. x.com 

Biotech's usual Q4 strength ahead of JPM season makes aggressive rallies in smaller names highly likely. ARKG is starting to break out, and PDS Biotechnology is showing multiple buy signals. If ARKG keeps running as expected, Nautilus Biotechnology, PDS Biotechnology and Quantum-Si could reasonably rally toward about $10 soon; broken chart structures would invalidate that view. x.com  x.com 

Viking Therapeutics is just another GLP-1 drug in a sea of many and will get crushed commercially by the big drugmakers. In a biotech bubble, only companies with a broad, diverse pipeline of potential blockbusters are worth owning. x.com 

Peptides could fast-track Hims & Hers' patient network like Harry Potter did for Amazon. Its US-based supply chain, manufacturing and clinical network could serve new demand. The FDA's interim compounding policy cleared White House review and may be released any day, potentially allowing certain peptides; Lee Rosebush says six are in Category 1. The policy's terms remain unknown. x.com  x.com  x.com  x.com