LifeSci Capital analyst Sam Slutsky maintained a Buy rating on BELLUS Health (BLU) yesterday and set a price target of $8.00. The company’s shares closed last Thursday at $2.45, close to its 52-week low of $2.01.
According to TipRanks.com, Slutsky is a 4-star analyst with an average return of 26.1% and a 69.2% success rate. Slutsky covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Aeglea Biotherapeutics, Catalyst Biosciences, and Sierra Oncology.
BELLUS Health has an analyst consensus of Moderate Buy, with a price target consensus of $9.00.
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The company has a one-year high of $12.03 and a one-year low of $2.01. Currently, BELLUS Health has an average volume of 955K.
Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 9 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 BLU in relation to earlier this year.
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BELLUS Health, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical development company which engages in the research and development of novel therapeutics for the treatment of chronic cough and other hypersensitisation disorders. Its product, BLU-5937, is being developed for the treatment of chronic cough and chronic pruritus, or chronic itch. The company was founded on June 17, 1993 and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.
