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HC Wainwright Reiterates "Buy" Rating for Protara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TARA)

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Protara Therapeutics (NASDAQ:TARA - Get Free Report)'s stock had its "buy" rating reiterated by HC Wainwright in a research report issued to clients and investors on Thursday,Benzinga reports. They currently have a $23.00 price objective on the stock.

Separately, Oppenheimer lowered their price objective on Protara Therapeutics from $30.00 to $25.00 and set an "outperform" rating on the stock in a research note on Monday, August 12th.

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Protara Therapeutics Stock Down 3.3 %

Protara Therapeutics stock traded down $0.09 during trading hours on Thursday, hitting $2.60. The stock had a trading volume of 140,641 shares, compared to its average volume of 216,636. Protara Therapeutics has a fifty-two week low of $1.04 and a fifty-two week high of $5.24. The company has a market cap of $53.64 million, a PE ratio of -0.95 and a beta of 1.77. The company has a 50-day moving average of $2.02 and a two-hundred day moving average of $2.29.

Insider Buying and Selling

In related news, major shareholder Opaleye Management Inc. sold 32,600 shares of the stock in a transaction that occurred on Wednesday, September 11th. The stock was sold at an average price of $1.71, for a total transaction of $55,746.00. Following the sale, the insider now directly owns 51,500 shares in the company, valued at $88,065. This represents a 0.00 % decrease in their position. The transaction was disclosed in a legal filing with the Securities & Exchange Commission, which is available at the SEC website. 12.50% of the stock is owned by corporate insiders.

Institutional Inflows and Outflows

Large investors have recently bought and sold shares of the company. Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. acquired a new position in Protara Therapeutics during the 1st quarter worth $40,000. Marshall Wace LLP acquired a new position in Protara Therapeutics during the 2nd quarter worth $161,000. Renaissance Technologies LLC lifted its stake in shares of Protara Therapeutics by 77.8% in the 2nd quarter. Renaissance Technologies LLC now owns 150,400 shares of the company's stock valued at $313,000 after purchasing an additional 65,800 shares during the period. Ikarian Capital LLC lifted its stake in shares of Protara Therapeutics by 7.4% in the 1st quarter. Ikarian Capital LLC now owns 202,701 shares of the company's stock valued at $813,000 after purchasing an additional 14,037 shares during the period. Finally, CVI Holdings LLC acquired a new position in shares of Protara Therapeutics in the 2nd quarter valued at $630,000. Institutional investors and hedge funds own 38.13% of the company's stock.

Protara Therapeutics Company Profile

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Protara Therapeutics, Inc, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in advancing transformative therapies for the treatment of cancer and rare diseases. The company's lead program is TARA-002, an investigational cell therapy, which is in Phase II clinical trial for the treatment of non-muscle invasive bladder cancer and lymphatic malformations.

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