{"id":11087,"date":"2026-10-29T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/?p=11087"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:03:50","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T14:03:50","slug":"ibb-voo-ratio-explodes-to-multi-year-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/ibb-voo-ratio-explodes-to-multi-year-high\/","title":{"rendered":"IBB\/VOO Ratio Explodes to Multi-Year High"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"width:100%; max-width:650px; margin:0 auto; padding:0 10px; box-sizing:border-box; font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6; color:#333333; -webkit-text-size-adjust:100%; -ms-text-size-adjust:100%; text-size-adjust:100%; mso-line-height-rule:exactly;\">\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n    The <strong>iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB)\/Vanguard S&amp;P 500 ETF (VOO) ratio<\/strong> has just <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>exploded<\/strong><\/span> this morning to a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>new multi-year high<\/strong><\/span>. Take a look at the <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">long-term<\/span> chart<\/strong>. We are in the early stages of a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>secular bull market<\/strong><\/span> for <strong>biotech stocks<\/strong>.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; text-align:center;\">\n    <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ibbtovooratio.jpg\"\n         alt=\"Long-term IBB to VOO ratio chart\"\n         width=\"600\"\n         height=\"241\"\n         style=\"display:block; width:100%; max-width:600px; height:auto; margin:0 auto; border:0;\" \/>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n    <strong>Medicure (TSXV: MPH)&#8217;s market cap<\/strong> is approximately <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>US$30 million<\/strong><\/span> right now but will be <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>US$200 million<\/strong><\/span> soon. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/articles\/nia-announces-new-stock-suggestion-rvv\/\" style=\"color:#2980b9; text-decoration:underline;\"><strong>Click here to read<\/strong><\/a> our initial <strong>Revive Therapeutics<\/strong> alert from October 2020, when its <strong>market cap<\/strong> was only <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>US$44.22 million<\/strong><\/span>, immediately prior to its valuation <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>rising to US$150 million+<\/strong><\/span> within months. If you read our alert, we <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\"><strong>didn&#8217;t<\/strong><\/span> actually <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>believe<\/strong><\/span> in their <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">COVID-19<\/span> drug<\/strong> at all. We liked <strong>Revive<\/strong> for its <strong><span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">early-stage<\/span> psychedelics<\/strong> only, but acknowledged the <strong><span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">COVID-19<\/span> drug<\/strong> would drive its value. <strong>We <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">100% believe<\/span> in Medicure&#8217;s MC-1 and are <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">100% sure<\/span> it gets <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">approval<\/span>.<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n    <strong>Even when Revive&#8217;s Phase 3 trial was <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">completely failing<\/span> because the <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">placebo group<\/span> <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">wasn&#8217;t being hospitalized<\/span> for COVID-19, and the stock <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">crashed to below<\/span> NIA&#8217;s suggestion price in early 2022, it <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">still<\/span> had a market cap of <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">US$40 million<\/span> at the early-2022 <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">low<\/span>, which is <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">above<\/span> what Medicure is worth today. When Revive tried to &#8220;<span style=\"color:#2980b9;\">change the goalposts<\/span>&#8221; to see if their drug <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">reduces<\/span> symptoms instead of hospitalizations, it actually <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">rebounded<\/span> in mid-2022 to a <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\">US$120 million<\/span> market cap. But by then, there were many <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">red flags<\/span>, and we <span style=\"color:#e74c3c;\">didn&#8217;t<\/span> like the company anymore at all.<\/strong>\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-size:14px; line-height:1.6;\">\n    Recognize that <strong>Medicure (TSXV: MPH)<\/strong> right now is <span style=\"color:#2980b9;\"><strong>very early<\/strong><\/span>, and most people will <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>chase<\/strong><\/span> it once it <span style=\"color:#27ae60;\"><strong>breaks<\/strong><\/span> <strong>$10 per share<\/strong>.\n  <\/p>\n\n  <p style=\"margin:0 0 16px; padding:0; font-size:8px; line-height:1.5; color:#555555;\">\n    <em>Past performance is not indicative of future results. NIA is not an investment advisor and does not provide investment advice. Always do your own research and make your own investment decisions. NIA&#8217;s President has purchased 87,000 shares of MPH and intends to buy more shares. NIA previously received compensation from Revive of US$30,000 cash for a three-month marketing contract which has since expired. This communication is for informational and educational purposes only.<\/em>\n  <\/p>\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The iShares Biotechnology ETF (IBB)\/Vanguard S&amp;P 500 ETF (VOO) ratio has just exploded this morning to a new multi-year high. Take a look at the long-term chart. We are in the early stages of a secular bull market for biotech stocks. Medicure (TSXV: MPH)&#8217;s market cap is approximately US$30 million right now but will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[365,28,414,311],"class_list":["post-11087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","tag-biotech","tag-etfs","tag-mph","tag-rvv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11090,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11087\/revisions\/11090"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inflation.us\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}