KalVista Pharmaceuticals (KALV) Receives a Buy from Needham


Needham analyst Serge Belanger maintained a Buy rating on KalVista Pharmaceuticals (KALV) today and set a price target of $28.00. The company’s shares closed last Monday at $15.27.

According to TipRanks.com, Belanger is a 3-star analyst with an average return of 1.0% and a 43.3% success rate. Belanger covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Amphastar Pharmaceuticals, Collegium Pharmaceutical, and Zynerba Pharmaceuticals.

The word on The Street in general, suggests a Moderate Buy analyst consensus rating for KalVista Pharmaceuticals with a $31.50 average price target, implying a 168.1% upside from current levels. In a report released today, Leerink Partners also maintained a Buy rating on the stock with a $28.00 price target.

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The company has a one-year high of $34.92 and a one-year low of $9.86. Currently, KalVista Pharmaceuticals has an average volume of 138.3K.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 26 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 KALV in relation to earlier this year.

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KalVista Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a clinical stage pharmaceutical company, which engages in the discovery, development, and commercialization of small molecule protease inhibitors. Its product candidates are inhibitors of plasma kallikrein being developed for two indications: hereditary angioedema (HAE) and diabetic macular edema (DME).

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