Agios Pharma (AGIO) Gets a Buy Rating from Cowen & Co.


Cowen & Co. analyst Chris Shibutani reiterated a Buy rating on Agios Pharma (NASDAQ: AGIO) today. The company’s shares opened today at $80.92.

According to TipRanks.com, Shibutani is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 11.7% and a 39.8% success rate. Shibutani covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Syndax Pharmaceuticals Inc, Five Prime Therapeutics, and Pieris Pharmaceuticals.

Agios Pharma has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $104.14, which is a 28.7% upside from current levels. In a report issued on July 20, SunTrust Robinson also reiterated a Buy rating on the stock with a $123 price target.

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The company has a one-year high of $99.82 and a one-year low of $51.62. Currently, Agios Pharma has an average volume of 346.4K.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 68 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is positive on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders buying their shares of AGIO in relation to earlier this year.

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Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery and development of novel investigational medicines to treat cancer and rare genetic diseases. It focuses on diseases that are directly caused by changes in genes or chromosomes, often passed from one generation to the next.

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