Needham Issues a Buy Rating on Selecta Biosciences (SELB)


In a report released today, Chad Messer from Needham assigned a Buy rating to Selecta Biosciences (SELB), with a price target of $3.50. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $3.27.

According to TipRanks.com, Messer is a 5-star analyst with an average return of 12.0% and a 48.8% success rate. Messer covers the Healthcare sector, focusing on stocks such as Phasebio Pharmaceuticals, Aeglea Biotherapeutics, and Ionis Pharmaceuticals.

Currently, the analyst consensus on Selecta Biosciences is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $5.40.

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Selecta Biosciences’ market cap is currently $315.4M and has a P/E ratio of -3.70. The company has a Price to Book ratio of -44.34.

Based on the recent corporate insider activity of 11 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 SELB in relation to earlier this year.

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Selecta Biosciences, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the research and development of nanoparticle immunomodulatory drugs for the treatment and prevention of human diseases. it produces the Synthetic Vaccine Particles (SVP) platform for immune tolerance and immune stimulation. The firm proprietary pipeline includes SVP-enabled enzyme, oncology and gene therapies. The company was founded by Omid C. Farokhzad, Robert S. Langer Jr., and Ulrich von Andrian in 2007 and is headquartered in Watertown, MA.

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