Verastem (VSTM) Receives a Buy from H.C. Wainwright


H.C. Wainwright analyst Sean Lee CFA maintained a Buy rating on Verastem (VSTM) today and set a price target of $4.00. The company’s shares closed last Wednesday at $2.80.

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Currently, the analyst consensus on Verastem is a Moderate Buy with an average price target of $4.00.

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Based on Verastem’s latest earnings release for the quarter ending December 31, the company reported a quarterly revenue of $506K and GAAP net loss of $19.86 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $3.62 million and had a GAAP net loss of $38.77 million.

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Verastem, Inc., operating as Verastem Oncology, is a biopharmaceutical company focusing on developing and commercializing medicines to improve the survival and quality of life of cancer patients. It markets COPIKTRA™ (duvelisib), an oral inhibitor of phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and dual inhibitor of PI3K-delta and PI3K-gamma, which is indicated for the treatment of adult patients with relapsed or refractory chronic lymphocytic leukemia/small lymphocytic lymphoma after at least two prior therapies and relapsed or refractory follicular lymphoma (FL) after at least two prior systemic therapies. The indication in FL is approved under accelerated approval based on overall response rate. In addition, it is developing the focal adhesion kinase inhibitor defactinib, which is being evaluated in three separate clinical collaborations in combination with immunotherapeutic agents for the treatment of various different cancer types, including pancreatic cancer, ovarian cancer, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and mesothelioma. Verastem, Inc. has collaboration agreements with Yakult Honsha Co., Ltd., CSPS Pharmaceutical Group Limited and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The company was founded by Richard H. Aldrich, Michelle Dipp, Piyush Gupta, Satish Jindal, Eric S. Lander, Robert F. Weinberg, and Christoph H. Westphal on August 4, 2010 and is headquartered in Needham, MA.

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