AbbVie Stock Rises After Leerink Partners Upgrades Its Rating

AbbVie’s (ABBV) shares rose 3.0% on Friday after Leerink Partners analyst, David Risinger, upgraded his rating on the stock from Market Perform to Outperform.Excluding Friday’s movement, AbbVie stock fell almost 19% in November, mainly due to the failure oftwo registration-enabling phase II studies on emraclidine, its once-daily oral candidate for treating schizophrenia. Earlier this month, AbbVie announced that the studies failed to meet their primary endpoints. Emraclidine was added to AbbVie’s pipeline w ...