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Oppenheimer upgraded Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) (NYSE: TEVA) Tuesday from Perform to Outperform and set a price target of $77.
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Analysts Akiva Felt and Angad Verma expected more deals to come following the announcement that the company would acquire Auspex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ: ASPX).
The analysts felt the company would "continue rebuilding through M&A, with the capacity for additional smaller deals to build pipeline value, along with a larger deal focused on generics and established branded products."
Felt and Verma throught that Mallinckrodt PLC (NYSE: MNK) would make sense for an acquisition, however, there were "multiple options for Teva" to pursue with numerous events in the pipeline.
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The $77 price target was based on a DCF valuation discounted at 9 percent through 2020 and a terminal value (0 percent terminal growth) discounted at 10 percent.
The price target also represented a 14.9x multiple on the firm's 2016 EPS estimate of $5.03, "still modestly below other spec-pharma turnaround stories," according to the analysts.
Felt and Verma concluded, "While we wish we had been earlier with the upgrade, we think this turnaround story still has legs."
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd (ADR) recently traded at $62.67, up 0.24 percent.
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