Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Neurocrine Drifting, But The Total Package Is Still Appealing

Although Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX) has a strong primary commercial asset in Ingrezza, a slower-building but still promising secondary asset partnered to AbbVie (ABBV) in Orlissa, and an improved pipeline, the reality is that the shares of biotechs in Neurocrine’s stage of life can flounder or drift for stretches of time. In the absence of new clinical data to get excited about, investors will instead fixate on short-term details or just get bored and move on, and I think that explains at least some of Neurocrine’s lackluster recent performance.

All in all, though, I still like this stock. I believe Ingrezza still has upside, and while Orlissa is taking longer to build than most investors would like, it’s still a good opportunity. Beyond that, opicapone may still be an underrated opportunity, and likewise with NBI-74788, and Neurocrine has some early-stage assets worth watching now, including its second VMAT-2 compound and its Voyager (VYGR) partnership.

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Neurocrine Drifting, But The Total Package Is Still Appealing

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