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HC Wainwright Reaffirms Buy Rating for Chimerix (NASDAQ:CMRX)

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Chimerix (NASDAQ:CMRX - Get Free Report)'s stock had its "buy" rating restated by research analysts at HC Wainwright in a research note issued to investors on Monday,Benzinga reports. They presently have a $11.00 price objective on the biopharmaceutical company's stock. HC Wainwright's price objective points to a potential upside of 219.77% from the stock's current price.

Separately, Wedbush reaffirmed an "outperform" rating and set a $6.00 price target on shares of Chimerix in a report on Tuesday, December 10th.

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Chimerix Trading Down 0.6 %

Shares of Chimerix stock traded down $0.02 during trading on Monday, hitting $3.44. 1,599,552 shares of the stock were exchanged, compared to its average volume of 1,271,378. The company has a fifty day moving average price of $1.50 and a 200-day moving average price of $1.11. The stock has a market capitalization of $309.38 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -3.66 and a beta of 1.02. Chimerix has a 1-year low of $0.75 and a 1-year high of $3.66.

Institutional Investors Weigh In On Chimerix

A number of institutional investors have recently made changes to their positions in CMRX. Marshall Wace LLP acquired a new stake in shares of Chimerix during the second quarter worth $137,000. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC increased its position in Chimerix by 566.9% during the third quarter. Valeo Financial Advisors LLC now owns 81,766 shares of the biopharmaceutical company's stock worth $76,000 after acquiring an additional 69,505 shares during the period. Finally, Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. raised its stake in Chimerix by 66.8% in the 3rd quarter. Connor Clark & Lunn Investment Management Ltd. now owns 344,712 shares of the biopharmaceutical company's stock worth $321,000 after purchasing an additional 138,098 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own 45.42% of the company's stock.

Chimerix Company Profile

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Chimerix, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, develops medicines to improve and extend the lives of patients facing deadly diseases. Its pipeline products include ONC201 a program that is in Phase 3 clinical trial for treating patients with H3 K27M-mutant diffuse glioma, as well as in Phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of rare neuroendocrine tumors; and ONC206, an imipridone, Dopamine Receptor D2 (DRD2) antagonist, and caseinolytic protease P (ClpP) agonist, which is in Phase 1 clinical trial for adult and pediatric patients with primary central nervous system tumors.

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