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Fly News Breaks for March 21, 2018
JNJ, GILD, CELG, BLUE
Mar 21, 2018 | 08:53 EDT
Morgan Stanley analyst Matthew Harrison raised his price target on Bluebird Bio (BLUE) to $209 from $152, stating that he now expects BCMA therapies to take 50% of the third line market by 2030 and noting that bb2121 has 50% market share there. The new assumptions increase his peak sales forecast to about $2.6B from about $1B, he pointed out. However, Harrison keeps an Equal Weight rating on Bluebird, stating that he would expect new data to be available at ASCO in June, but would also expect to see competitor data potentially from Celgene's (CELG) Juno, Gilead's (GILD) Kite, Johnson & Johnson's (JNJ) Nanjing Legend and others.