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Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX): Wells Fargo Expecting Price Increase

The shares closed down -0.18 points or -0.66% at $27.10 with 341.19 million shares getting traded. The 12-month price target stands at $40.92, marking a 49% upside from where the shares last closed. The company has a market cap of $9.42B. The stock volatility for week was 3.05% while for month was 4.18%.The stock, as of last close, traded 46.09% to its 52 week low and was changed -88.98% from its 52 week high.

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Zacks’s expectant of Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.

Many Wall Street Analysts have commented on Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc. The stock was acquired at an average price of $24.65 per share, with a total value of $98,600.00. Combining all the ratings on Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, Inc.

From Wells Fargo analyst David Maris’ perspective, it is possible VRX is already kick-starting its return to these increases, as Valeant has raised the list price of the following three products by 9.9%, as per Medi-Span CDI data: Atropine Sulfate Ophthalmic Ointment, PrednisoLONE Sodium Phosphate Ophthalmic Solution, and Neomycin-Polymyxin-Gramicidin Ophthalmic Solutions. (MRK) on September 7, 2016 announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has accepted for Priority Review the supplemental Biologics License Application (sBLA) for KEYTRUDA® (pembrolizumab), the company’s anti-PD-1 therapy, for the first-line treatment of patients with advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) whose tumors express PD-L1, with a PDUFA, or target action, date of December 24, 2016.

One Month Ago Analyst Ratings: The Company has received mean Analyst rating of 2.85 from polled analysts at Reuters One Month Ago.

Separately, TheStreet Ratings Team has a “Sell” rating with a score of D on the stock.

Hospitals receive discounts primarily through their group purchasing organization, and Valeant has communicated to individual hospitals that we are working with GPOs to administer the program, the company said. “Outperform View” rating was revealed by 1 and “Underperform Signal” rating was issued by 4.

Analysts give IAG a mean recommendation of 2.90. Average sales estimate is measured after the consensus analysis of 11 Analysts. A number of other analysts have spoken on the company in recent days, and the company has earned a consensus one-year price target of $44.39, above the opening price of $27.17. Stock’s minimum price target estimates has been figured out at $16.00 while the maximum price target forecast is established at $175.00, if we look at the price target with an optimistic approach it has upside potential of 996% from its latest closing price of $27.37. The specialty pharmaceutical company reported $1.40 EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters’ consensus estimate of $1.48 by $0.08.

The anticipation of earnings estimates by Zacks as of of 20160914 is of $2.01 for the fiscal year ended 2017.

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Earnings Estimates: “15” Analysts are saying that the company to announce quarterly earnings of $1.78 per share for current quarter period Quarter Ending Sep-16.

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