Onward Medical Initiation of coverage BUY, EUR17 Get Up, Stand Up
We are initiating Onward Medical with a BUY rating and a EUR 17 price target. Onward Medical is a clinical, soon to be commercial, Swiss-Dutch MedTech company developing two groundbreaking neuromodulating platforms for the treatment of spinal cord injury (SCI). The two platforms that the company is developing are the ARCEX, a non-invasive platform for the treatment of upper extremity restoration and the higher value ARCIM an implantable platform with initial focus on blood pressure and trunk control and mobility restoration. The company’s ARCEX platform is currently waiting for results of its pivotal Up-LIFT trial that should provide market entry in H2-23. In the implantable platform, Onward is soon to initiate first-in-human (FiH) trials for the blood pressure indication with top line data expected in Q4-22 along with an early feasibility study in mobility due to start in H1-23. We expect approval and first sales of ARCIM for blood pressure to be in H1-26 which we believe will de-risk approval for mobility 1.0 (lower leg function) which is expected to be approved also in H1-26.