Topic: How To Invest

Pat: I assume these are risky but they sound promising: Female Health and Platinum Group Metals. Thanking you in advance.

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Female Health, $5.17, symbol FHCO on Nasdaq (Shares outstanding: 27.5 million; Market cap: $142.1 million; www.femalehealth.com), makes and distributes female condoms, which help protect against unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV/AIDS. The company also sells the FC2, a second-generation female condom. Female Health sells its female condoms to public-health clinics and not-for-profit organizations. The company markets its products directly to consumers in the U.K., and has distribution agreements with businesses that market the female condoms in various countries, including the U.S., Brazil, Canada, France, India, Japan, Mexico, and Spain. Female Health owns certain worldwide rights to the FC2, including patents that have been issued in Europe, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and China, and are pending in various other countries. The World Health Organization has cleared FC2 for purchase by U.N. agencies. The company’s products have particular appeal in developing countries, such as South Africa, Zimbabwe, Congo, Tanzania, and Zambia. Aid groups, such as the U.S. Agency for International Development and…