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BTIG starts Sophia Genetics at buy; PT $6

BTIG initiated coverage of Sophia Genetics (NASDAQ:SOPH) with a “buy” rating and $6 price target. The stock price closed at $2.06 on Dec. 30. Sophia is a rapidly growing, global healthcare technology company that sells...

January 3, 2023
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Cantor ups Ardelyx PT to $3 after FDA update

Cantor Fitzgerald raised its price target for Ardelyx (NASDAQ:ARDX) to $3 from $1.60 but maintained a “neutral” rating after a label update from the FDA. The stock closed at $2.51 on Dec. 28. Ardelyx announced that the...

December 29, 2022
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Cantor starts X4 Pharma at OW; PT $3

Cantor Fitzgerald launched coverage of X4 Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:XFOR) with an “overweight” rating and a 12-month price target of $3. The stock closed at 80 cents on Dec. 22. X4 is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical...

December 22, 2022
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Maxim starts MediWound at buy; PT $25

Maxim Group initiated coverage of MediWound (NASDAQ:MDWD) with a “buy” rating and $25 price target. The stock closed at $11 on Dec. 21. MediWound is a commercial-stage company developing a bromelain-based platform to...

December 22, 2022
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SVB starts NewAmsterdam Pharma at OP; PT $19

SVB Securities initiated coverage of NewAmsterdam Pharma (NASDAQ:NAMS) with an “outperform” rating and $19 price target. The stock closed at $11.31 on Dec. 19. “We believe there is a place for NewAmsterdam’s...

December 20, 2022
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HCW starts Acurx Pharma at buy; PT $14

H.C. Wainwright launched coverage of Acurx Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ACXP) with a “buy” rating and $14 price target. The stock closed at $3.83 on Dec. 16. Acurx is a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company focused on...

December 19, 2022
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Raymond James starts POINT Biopharma at OP; PT $10

Raymond James initiated coverage of POINT Biopharma (NASDAQ:PNT) with an “outperform” rating and price target of $10 target. The stock closed at $6.61 on Dec. 13. POINT is a precision oncology company focused on the...

December 14, 2022
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SVB starts ARS Pharma at OP; PT $14

SVB Securities launched coverage of ARS Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:SPRY) with an “outperform” rating and $14 price target. The stock closed at $7.12 on Dec. 12. ARS is developing neffy, an intranasal epinephrine product in...

December 13, 2022
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JMP starts Pardes Biosciences at MO; PT $9

JMP Securities initiated coverage of Pardes Biosciences (NASDAQ:PRDS) with a “market outperform” rating and price target of $9. The stock closed at $1.15 on Dec. 12. Pardes is developing PBI-0451 as a potential novel...

December 13, 2022
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HCW starts Affimed at buy; PT $6

H.C. Wainwright launched coverage of Affimed NV (NASDAQ:AFMD) with a “buy” rating and $6 price target. The stock closed at $2.04 on Dec. 9. Affimed is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on developing innate...

December 12, 2022
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HCW starts Enanta Pharma at buy; PT $56

H.C. Wainwright initiated coverage of Enanta Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ENTA) with a “buy” rating and $56 price target. The stock closed at $41.78 on Dec. 8. Enanta’s claim to fame is the discovery of glecaprevir...

December 9, 2022
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HCW starts Opthea at buy; PT $14

H.C. Wainwright launched coverage of Opthea (NASDAQ:OPT) with a “buy” rating and $14 price target. The stock closed at $4.97 on Dec. 7. Opthea is focused on patients suffering from retinal eye diseases, such as wet age...

December 8, 2022
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Maxim starts Blue Water Vaccines at buy; PT $4

Maxim Group initiated coverage of Blue Water Vaccines (NASDAQ:BWV) with a “buy” rating and price target of $4. The stock closed at $1.15 on Dec. 7. Blue Water is developing a portfolio of vaccine candidates targeting...

December 8, 2022
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BTIG ups Aerovate to buy on competitor data

BTIG upgraded Aerovate Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AVTE) to “buy” from “neutral” with a $27 price target, citing Gossamer Bio’s TORREY results that could validate Aerovate’s dry powder inhalation (DPI) administered tyrosine...

December 6, 2022
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HCW starts ImmunoPrecise Antibodies at buy; PT $9

H.C. Wainwright initiated coverage of ImmunoPrecise Antibodies (NASDAQ:IPA) with a “buy” rating and price target of $9. The stock closed at $4.93 on Dec. 1. ImmunoPrecise is a contract research organization (CRO) that...

December 2, 2022
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Stifel starts OmniAb at buy; PT $12

Stifel launched coverage of OmniAb (NASDAQ:OABI) with a “buy” rating and $12 price target. The stock closed at $2.61 on Nov. 25. Analyst Stephen Willey writes that OmniAb represents the construction of a high-throughput...

November 28, 2022