Credit Suisse analyst Martin Auster maintained a Buy rating on Arena Pharma (ARNA) yesterday and set a price target of $77.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at $56.38.
According to TipRanks.com, Auster is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 17.7% and a 59.8% success rate. Auster covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Entasis Therapeutics Holdings, Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, and BioMarin Pharmaceutical.
Currently, the analyst consensus on Arena Pharma is a Strong Buy with an average price target of $68.29, representing a 27.1% upside. In a report issued on May 18, Jefferies also initiated coverage with a Buy rating on the stock with a $62.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $64.48 and a one-year low of $32.95. Currently, Arena Pharma has an average volume of 645.9K.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 29 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 ARNA in relation to earlier this year. Most recently, in February 2020, Steven Spector, the EVP, General Counsel & Sec of ARNA bought 7,970 shares for a total of $118,753.
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Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of novel drugs that target G protien-coupled receptors. It offers drugs for treatment in the field of cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. The company was founded by Dominic P. Behan and Jack Lief on April 14, 1997 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.
