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Corporate Insiders Snap Up Shares of Liquidia Technologies
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Corporate Insiders Snap Up Shares of Liquidia Technologies

Biopharmaceutical company Liquidia Technologies (LQDA) has seen two corporate insiders pull the trigger on shares in the past week.

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On April 13, Liquidia Directors Paul Manning and Roger Jeffs purchased shares of the company. While Manning acquired 198,413 shares worth about $500,000, Jeffs acquired 99,206 shares worth about $250,000. (See Liquidia Technologies stock analysis on TipRanks)

On March 30, Wedbush analyst Liana Moussatos reiterated a Hold rating on the stock and reduced the price target to $2 from $4.

Moussatos commented, “Liquidia is focused on leveraging its proprietary PRINT technology to improve the clinical profile of approved active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs). The lead candidate LIQ861 is a potentially best-in-class dry powder formulation of inhaled treprostinil (reference drug TYVASO) for the treatment of Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension (PAH).”

Furthermore, Moussatos cited the fact that Liquidia is likely losing first-to-market advantage for the PAH oral switch to United Therapeutics’ Tyvaso DPI as the reason for lowering the price target.

Liquidia is seeking a strategic partner for its second product candidate LIQ865, which is being developed for post-operative procedures. It is also evaluating the drug for additional indications.

Moussatos continues to monitor Liquidia’s effort to get LIQ861 “across the regulatory goal-line and progress with early commercial efforts for Liquidia-PAH (RareGen).”

Additionally, based on Liquidia’s fiscal 2020 results, Moussatos notes that the company is streamlining operations, and expects a 40% decrease in total operating costs in 2021-22. Total operating expenses for the company were $59.6 million in fiscal 2020.

Consensus among analysts is that Liquidia is a Moderate Buy, based on 2 Buys and 1 Hold. The average analyst price target of $4.67 implies upside potential of 68%. Shares have dropped about 60.2% over the past year.

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