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BTIG starts Aerpio Pharma at buy: PT $4

BTIG launched coverage of Aerpio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARPO) with a “buy” rating and $4 price target. The stock closed at $2 on Dec. 8. “Aerpio is marching forward with several clinical programs of its first-in-class...

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Stifel starts Venus Concepts at hold; PT $2.50

Stifel initiated coverage of Venus Concepts (NASDAQ:VERO) with a “hold” rating and price target of $2.50, citing “more work to be done in improving ARTAS,” the company’s robotic hair restoration system. The stock closed...

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HCW ups Curis PT to $9 from $5

H.C. Wainwright raised its price target for Curis (NASDAQ:CRIS) to $9 from $5 after the company announced preliminary data from an ongoing Phase 1 study evaluating monotherapy, CA-4948, in relapsed or refractory acute...

Prothena

HCW starts Prothena at buy; PT $22

H.C. Wainwright launched coverage of Prothena (NASDAQ:PRTA) with a “buy” rating and price target of $22. The stock closed at $11.53 on Dec 4. Prothena is focused on protein-opathies affecting the central nervous system...

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HCW starts BiomX at buy; PT $20

H.C. Wainwright initiated coverage of BiomX (NYSE American:PHGE) with a “buy” rating and $20 price target. The stock closed at $5.90 on Dec 4. “BiomX is one of the leaders in the development of bacteriophage (phage)...

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HCW starts Liquidia Technologies at buy; PT $6

H.C. Wainwright initiated coverage of Liquidia Technologies (NASDAQ:LQDA) with a “buy” rating and price target of $6. The stock closed at $2.92 on Dec. 3. Liquidia is focused on applying its particle engineering PRINT...

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Stifel starts Syndax Pharmaceuticals at buy; PT $32

Stifel launched coverage of Syndax Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SNDX) with a “buy” rating and price target of $32. The stock closed at $22.79 on Dec. 2. Analyst Konstantinos Aprilakis, M.D., writes that SNDX-5613, the...

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Stifel starts Sutro Biopharma at buy; PT $25

Stifel initiated coverage of Sutro Biopharma (NASDAQ:STRO) with a “buy” rating and $25 price target. The stock closed at $16.35 on Dec. 2. Sutro is developing XpressCF, a cell-free protein-synthesis platform that...

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Analysts start SQZ Biotechnologies at buy

Analysts with Stifel and BTIG launched coverage of SQZ Biotechnologies (NYSE:SQZ) with “buy” ratings and price targets of $38 and $40, respectively. The stock closed at $27.62 on Nov. 23. “We believe SQZ’s Cell Squeeze...