StockNews.com Begins Coverage on Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS)

Equities researchers at StockNews.com began coverage on shares of Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS) (TSE:AEZ) in a note issued to investors on Friday. The brokerage set a “sell” rating on the biopharmaceutical company’s stock.

Aeterna Zentaris Stock Down 1.7 %

Shares of NASDAQ AEZS opened at $4.03 on Friday. Aeterna Zentaris has a twelve month low of $3.96 and a twelve month high of $12.00. The company has a market cap of $7.23 million, a PE ratio of -0.27 and a beta of 1.55. The business’s 50 day moving average price is $5.39 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $6.84.

Aeterna Zentaris Company Profile

Aeterna Zentaris Inc, a specialty biopharmaceutical company, engages in developing and commercializing therapeutics and diagnostic tests in Canada, Switzerland, Ireland, Denmark, Germany, the United States, and internationally. Its lead product is Macrilen (macimorelin), an orally available peptidomimetic ghrelin receptor (GHSR-1a) agonist that stimulates the secretion of growth hormone by binding to the GHSR-1a for the diagnosis of patients with adult growth hormone deficiency and childhood-onset growth hormone deficiency, as well as endocrinology and oncology indications; AEZS-150, a delayed clearance parathyroid hormone fusion polypeptide that is in preclinical trial for the treatment of chronic hypoparathyroidism; and AEZS-130 that is in preclinical trial for the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis.