When deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold a stock, investors often rely on analyst recommendations. Media reports about rating changes by these brokerage-firm-employed (or sell-side) analysts often influence a stock's price, but are they really important?Let's take a look at what these Wall Street heavyweights have to say about Astrazeneca (AZN) before we discuss the reliability of brokerage recommendations and how to use them to your advantage.Astrazeneca currently has an average brokerage recommendation ...

AstraZeneca (AZN) announced that the FDA has approved its marketed asthma drug, Fasenra (benralizumab) for a new indication. The regulatory body has now approved Fasenra for treating adult patients with eosinophilic granulomatosis with polyangiitis (“EGPA”).EGPA is a rare autoimmune disease that can cause damage to multiple organs and tissues and is the second approved indication for Fasenra.Fasenra is already approved as an add-on maintenance treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma (SEA).Shares of AstraZe ...

AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ:AZN) Meet the Management at ESMO 2024 Conference September 16, 2024 2:00 PM ET Company Participants Pascal Soriot - Chief Executive Officer Susan Galbraith - EVP, Oncology R&D Thomas Powles - Professor of Genitourinary Oncology; Director, Barts Cancer Centre Sunil Verma - SVP, Global Head, Oncology Franchise Dave Fredrickson - EVP, Oncology Business Matt Hellmann - VP, Early Oncology Development Cristian Massacesi - Chief Medical Officer, Chief Development Officer Oncology Melissa Sc ...

AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ:AZN) Meet the Management at ESMO 2024 Conference September 16, 2024 2:00 PM ET Company Participants Pascal Soriot - Chief Executive Officer Susan Galbraith - EVP, Oncology R&D Thomas Powles - Professor of Genitourinary Oncology; Director, Barts Cancer Centre Sunil Verma - SVP, Global Head, Oncology Franchise Dave Fredrickson - EVP, Oncology Business Matt Hellmann - VP, Early Oncology Development Cristian Massacesi - Chief Medical Officer, Chief Development Officer Oncology Melissa Sc ...

Biopharmaceutical stock AstraZeneca PLC (NASDAQ:AZN) is 1.3% lower before the open, after a bear note from Deutsche Bank. The analyst downgraded AZN to "sell" from "hold" and lowered its price target, pointing to the company's results from a lung cancer trial that showed its experimental precision drug did not improve overall survival.Coming into today, most analysts were bullish on AstraZeneca stock. Of the 14 in coverage, 11 rated it a "buy" or better, and the 12-month average target price of $90.89 is a ...

thelinke/E+ via Getty Images Shares of AstraZeneca (NASDAQ:AZN) declined earlier this week after the company and its partner Daiichi Sankyo (OTCPK:DSNKY) presented disappointing overall survival data from the phase 3 trial of the antibody-drug conjugate (‘ADC’) candidate datopotamab deruxtecan, or Dato-DXd, in patients with advanced non-squamous non-small cell lung cancer. Dato-DXd is part of AstraZeneca’s expanding ADC pipeline, and part of a greater effort to offer better treatment options for lung ca ...

KEY TAKEAWAYSA Phase 3 trial found AstraZeneca's experimental lung cancer drug datopotamab deruxtecan did not significantly improve patients' overall survival rates.The results from the trial showed that the overall survival rate "did not reach statistical significance," the company said.AstraZeneca shares fell in early trading Tuesday following the news, before recovering later in the session. A Phase 3 trial found AstraZeneca's (AZN) experimental lung cancer drug datopotamab deruxtecan (Dato-DXd) did not ...

The companies commit to bring cutting-edge liquid biopsy testing to 20 institutions globally over the next 12 monthsBOSTON and ROLLE, Switzerland, Sept. 10, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- SOPHiA GENETICS (Nasdaq: SOPH), a cloud-native healthcare technology company and a global leader in data-driven medicine, today announced a new milestone in the global introduction of the liquid biopsy test MSK-ACCESS® powered with SOPHiA DDM™, first announced in October 2023. Under a definitive partnership agreement with AstraZenec ...

An illustrative image of a person holding a medical syringe and a Covid-19 vaccine vial in front of the the AstraZeneca logo displayed on a screen. On Wednesday, January 12, 2021, in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. (Photo by Artur Widak/NurPhoto via Getty Images)AstraZeneca shares fell more than 5% Tuesday morning, the biggest one-day drop in seven months, after the British pharmaceutical giant announced disappointing lung cancer drug trial results.The Covid-19 vaccine maker was trading at the bottom of the FTSE ...

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