>>> US Gapping up

Gapping up
In reaction to earnings/guidance
:

  • VSCO +7% (reaffirms guidance; $250 accelerated share repurchase program)

Other news:

  • NRXP +12.2% (files Breakthrough Therapy Designation request for ZYESAMI)
  • LHDX +9.4% (announces a new distribution agreement for at least 600000 tests in 2022 with Co-Defend and Co-Protect)
  • CALX +6.8% (to join S&P MidCap 400)
  • ENS +2.9% (announces integration of its ABSL Lithium-ion batteries into the NASA Webb Telescope launch)
  • QDEL +1.2% (Antigen Tests Detect the Omicron Variant)
  • LQDA +1.1% (announces stipulation of partial judgment in favor of Liquidia filed in Hatch-Waxman litigation)
  • DAR +0.9% (to acquire Valley Proteins for $1.1 bln in cash)

Analyst comments:

  • ORTX +6.7% (resumed with an Overweight at Cantor Fitzgerald)
  • NRIX +2.7% (initiated with a Buy at H.C. Wainwright)
  • VXRT +2.2% (resumed with a Buy at Jefferies)
  • PEAR +1.7% (initiated with a Buy at Citigroup)
  • VAXX +1.5% (resumed with a Buy at Jefferies)
  • BTX +1.3% (initiated with an Overweight at Cantor Fitzgerald)
  • AKAM +0.8% ( initiated with a Buy at DA Davidson)