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Fly News Breaks for September 19, 2018
BPMC, NVS, DCPH
Sep 19, 2018 | 05:21 EDT
Piper Jaffray analyst Christopher Raymond keeps an Overweight rating on shares of Deciphera Pharmaceuticals (DCPH) with a $50 price target following a deep dive into the systemic mastocytosis treatment space and the potential for DCC-2618 to play a meaningful role in the disease. The analyst continues to recommend purchase of Deciphera into the systemic mastocytosis data for DCC-2618 early next year. Given what's been presented before between Novartis' (NVS) midostaurin and Blueprint Medicines' (BPMC) avapritinib, Raymond thinks an overall response rate of greater than 50% with a continued clean safety profile should be considered a win for DCC-2618. He models for DCC-2618 systemic mastocytosis revenue of $44M, $151M, and $290M for 2023 through 2025, respectively. The analyst remains a buyer of Deciphera shares into the Q1 of 2019 data.