Needham analyst Chad Messer assigned a Buy rating to Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS) today and set a price target of $89.00. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $56.78.
According to TipRanks.com, Messer is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 10.9% and a 47.5% success rate. Messer covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Phasebio Pharmaceuticals, Aeglea Biotherapeutics, and Sarepta Therapeutics.
Ionis Pharmaceuticals has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $76.40, implying a 27.7% upside from current levels. In a report issued on July 22, BMO Capital also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $86.00 price target.
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The company has a one-year high of $73.09 and a one-year low of $39.32. Currently, Ionis Pharmaceuticals has an average volume of 758.7K.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 51 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 IONS in relation to earlier this year. Last month, Frederick Muto, a Director at IONS bought 15,000 shares for a total of $138,300.
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Ionis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. engages in the development and commercialization of human therapeutic drugs using antisense technology. It operates through the Ionis Core and Akcea Therapeutics segments. The Ionis Core segment exploits a novel drug discovery platform to generate a pipeline of drugs. The Akcea Therapeutics segment develops and commercializes drugs for cardiometabolic diseases. The company was founded by Stanley T. Crooke, David J. Ecker, Christopher K. Mirabelli and Brett P. Monia in 1989 and is headquartered in Carlsbad, CA.
