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Following recent updates from numerous management teams within the health care space, Needham analyst Ami Fadia has reevaluated the stocks in the firm's coverage universe using a stock selection criteria and a risk-reward matrix.

Let’s examine the firm’s strongest reward/risk picks:
Bicycle Therapeutics PLC (NASDAQ:BCYC)
Needham maintains Buy rating with $85 price target

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  • Fadia is positive on the lead nectin-4 asset BT8009, which “demonstrated promising early Phase 1/2 data in urothelial cancer”; sees emerging safety differentiation while “efficacy is comparable to Padcev so far.”
  • The analyst sees the potential to “deepen oncology pipeline and applications beyond oncology” due to “high throughput screen platform using phage display,” which assists lead identification.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals PLC (NASDAQ:JAZZ)
Needham maintains Buy rating with $215 price target

  • “[The] Oxybate franchise is more sustainable than investors appreciate,” with expectations of “minimal erosion of the Xywav volume at least in the near term,” Fadia said. 
  • The analyst highlights future growth due to “newly approved indication Tuberous Sclerosis Complex and off-label use” and attributes recent quarterly growth slumps “due to saturation in Dravet Syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut Syndrome markets.”

Sage Therapeutics Inc. (NASDAQ:SAGE)
Needham maintains Buy rating with $85 price target

  • Fadia said “upcoming data readouts for SAGE-217 are relatively de-risked,” and the analyst expects the Phase 3 study to hit the primary endpoint of HAM-D decrease at day 3 “as SAGE-217 has demonstrated statistically significant separation from placebo at day 2/3.”

 


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