RBC Capital analyst Brian Abrahams raised his price target on Galapagos (GLPG) to $158 after the company's R&D day, where the management revealed its "expansive plans for bringing new discovery techniques, treatment modalities, preclinical assets, and targeted indications online" by using the cash from its recent Gilead (GILD) deal. While these "aspirations" will take time to mature, the analyst says the plans are "impressive". Abrahams still keeps his Sector Perform rating on Galapagos shares, noting that its nearer term positives of filgotinib commercialization in RA and potential expansion into IB look priced in.

Cantor Fitzgerald lowered the firm's price target on Gilead to $75 from $78 and keeps a Neutral rating on the shares. The firm, which made slight adjustments to all of its large-cap biotechnology models ahead of Q1 earnings season for the group, lowered its target for Gilead given slower expected HIV growth. The "usual seasonal headwinds that typically make this one of the weaker quarters for the industry," the analyst added in the preview note.