In a report released yesterday, Matt Miksic from Credit Suisse reiterated a Buy rating on Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), with a price target of $159.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $132.23.
According to TipRanks.com, Miksic is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 8.3% and a 58.9% success rate. Miksic covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Baxter International, and Edwards Lifesciences.
The word on The Street in general, suggests a Strong Buy analyst consensus rating for Johnson & Johnson with a $161.25 average price target, implying a 25.5% upside from current levels. In a report issued on March 27, Citigroup also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $150.00 price target.
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Based on Johnson & Johnson’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $20.75 billion and net profit of $4.01 billion. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $20.39 billion and had a net profit of $3.04 billion.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 35 insiders, corporate insider sentiment is neutral on the stock.
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Johnson & Johnson is a holding company, which engages in the research and development, manufacture and sale of products in the health care field. It operates through the following segments: Consumer, Pharmaceutical, and Medical Devices. The Consumer segment includes products used in the baby care, oral care, beauty, over-the-counter pharmaceutical, women’s health, and wound care markets. The Pharmaceutical segment focuses on therapeutic areas such as immunology, infectious diseases ad vaccines, neuroscience, oncology, cardiovascular and metabolism, and pulmonary hypertension. The Medical Devices segment offers products used in the orthopedic, surgery, cardiovascular, diabetes care, and eye health fields. The company was founded by Robert Wood Johnson I, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson Sr. in 1886 and is headquartered in New Brunswick, NJ.
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