Jefferies' Biotechnology equity research team laid out their top picks for 2017. Following a volatile two years, the biotech space seeks to achieve "greater equilibrium" in 2017, the analysts write in a research note. They cite increasing competition, slowing volumes, and ramping payer leverage as reasons to remain selective when picking stocks this year and beyond. Among large-caps, Jefferies likes Celgene (CELG) for its "best-in-class growth" and sees limited downside in Gilead (GILD) shares. In the mid-cap space, the firm favors Alkermes (ALKS) given the prospects for Vivitrol and Aristada and a "strong" neurology pipeline as well as Vertex (VRTX). Jefferies' top small-cap picks include Aevi Genomics Medicine, Alder Biopharmaceuticals (ALDR), AMAG Pharmaceuticals (AMAG), DBV Technologies (DBVT), Immunomedics (IMMU), Ignyta (RXDX), Karyopharm (KPTI), RA Pharmaceuticals (RARX), TherapeuticsMD (TXMD) and Xenon Pharmaceuticals (XENE).

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Consensus $3.67. Sees FY24 product sales $27.1B-$27.5B.

Reports Q1 revenue $6.7B, consensus $5.92B. "Gilead delivered another strong quarter of revenue growth in the first quarter with 6% year-over-year growth in our base business driven by HIV, Oncology and Liver Disease," said Daniel O'Day, Gilead's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer. "The acquisition of CymaBay brings us another potentially transformative therapy for people with liver disease, and a regulatory decision on seladelpar is expected in August. New HIV data demonstrates the continued progress in our long-acting HIV pipeline, and we look forward to providing updates on this and our broad Oncology portfolio throughout the rest of 2024."