After Raymond James and J.P. Morgan gave Bristol Myers (NYSE: BMY) a Buy rating last month, the company received another Buy, this time from William Blair. Analyst Matt Phipps maintained a Buy rating on Bristol Myers yesterday. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $61.83.
According to TipRanks.com, Phipps is a 2-star analyst with an average return of 0.5% and a 46.5% success rate. Phipps covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Phasebio Pharmaceuticals, Pieris Pharmaceuticals, and Atara Biotherapeutics.
Bristol Myers has an analyst consensus of Strong Buy, with a price target consensus of $71.50, a 15.4% upside from current levels. In a report issued on October 1, J.P. Morgan also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $74.00 price target.
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Based on Bristol Myers’ latest earnings release for the quarter ending June 30, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $10.13 billion and GAAP net loss of $85 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $6.27 billion and had a net profit of $1.43 billion.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 56 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is negative on the stock. This means that over the past quarter there has been an increase of insiders selling their shares of BMY in relation to earlier this year.
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Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. engages in the discovery, development, licensing, manufacture, marketing, distribution, and sale of biopharmaceutical products. The firm offers chemically-synthesized drugs or small molecules and products produced from biological processes called biologics. The company was founded in August 1933 and is headquartered in New York, NY.
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