Report
Kelsey Tsai
EUR 98.48 For Business Accounts Only

Ionis' antisense-based drug platform and broad pipeline are helping the firm build a moat.

Strong fourth-quarter results for Ionis and an initially positive interpretation of volanesorsen’s pivotal trial results were eventually offset by lingering concerns regarding the drug’s safety profile, producing a roller coaster ride for investors. We plan on maintaining our $40 per share fair value estimate as our lower near-term expectations for Spinraza royalties are balanced by the progression of Ionis’ late-stage pipeline candidates. While the company does not yet tout a sustainable source...
Underlying
Ionis Pharmaceuticals Inc.

Ionis Pharmaceuticals is engaged in discovering and developing RNA-targeted therapeutics. The company has two commercial medicines, SPINRAZA and TEGSEDI. SPINRAZA (nusinersen) injection for intrathecal use is a survival motor neuron-2, directed antisense oligonucleotide indicated for the treatment of spinal muscular atrophy in pediatric and adult patients. TEGSEDI (inotersen) injection is a Generation 2+ antisense medicine and an approved subcutaneous RNA-targeting medicine designed to treat people with polyneuropathy caused by hereditary transthyretin amyloidosis.

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
Kelsey Tsai

Other Reports on these Companies
Other Reports from Morningstar

ResearchPool Subscriptions

Get the most out of your insights

Get in touch