Editas Medicine (EDIT) Receives a Hold from J.P. Morgan


In a report issued on January 13, Cory Kasimov from J.P. Morgan maintained a Hold rating on Editas Medicine (EDIT). The company’s shares closed last Tuesday at $72.11.

According to TipRanks.com, Kasimov is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 21.4% and a 57.0% success rate. Kasimov covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Alexion Pharmaceuticals, and BioMarin Pharmaceutical.

Editas Medicine has an analyst consensus of Hold, with a price target consensus of $48.33, which is a -34.7% downside from current levels. In a report issued on January 7, Raymond James also downgraded the stock to Hold.

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The company has a one-year high of $99.95 and a one-year low of $14.01. Currently, Editas Medicine has an average volume of 2.14M.

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Editas Medicine, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of genome editing technology. Its technology includes clustered, regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR), and CRISPR associated protein 9 (Cas9). The company was founded by Feng Zhang, Jennifer A. Doudna, George McDonald Church, J. Keith Joung and David R. Liu in September 2013 and is headquartered in Cambridge, MA.

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