Report
Karen Andersen
EUR 147.86 For Business Accounts Only

Relaunching Coverage of Alexion; Ultra-Rare Portfolio Underpins $175 Fair Value Estimate

We are relaunching coverage of Alexion Pharmaceuticals with a $175 per share fair value estimate. Our lower fair value estimate reflects updated pricing assumptions for Strensiq (hypophosphatasia) and Kanuma (lysosomal acid lipase deficiency), in line with their respective $285,000 and $310,000 initial annual costs. In our view, the stock has not fully recovered from the industrywide slide from drug pricing concerns at the start of the year, in addition to company-specific news, and Alexion cont...
Underlying
Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Alexion Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company serving patients and families affected by rare diseases through the discovery, development and commercialization of therapies. The company has developed and commercialized two complement inhibitors to treat patients with paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria and atypical hemolytic uremic syndrome, as well as the complement inhibitor to treat anti-acetylcholine receptor antibody-positive generalized myasthenia gravis and neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder in patients who are anti-aquaporin-4 antibody positive. In addition, the company has two enzyme replacement therapies for metabolic disorders, hypophosphatasia and lysosomal acid lipase deficiency.

Provider
Morningstar
Morningstar

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. The company offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors.

Morningstar provides data on approximately 530,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 18 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries and had approximately $185 billion in assets under advisement and management as of June 30, 2016.

We have operations in 27 countries.

Analysts
Karen Andersen

Other Reports on these Companies
Other Reports from Morningstar

ResearchPool Subscriptions

Get the most out of your insights

Get in touch