Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS) Now Covered by StockNews.com

Investment analysts at StockNews.com started coverage on shares of Aeterna Zentaris (NASDAQ:AEZS) (TSE:AEZ) in a report released on Thursday. The firm set a “sell” rating on the biopharmaceutical company’s stock.

Aeterna Zentaris Price Performance

Shares of NASDAQ AEZS opened at $4.00 on Thursday. Aeterna Zentaris has a one year low of $3.96 and a one year high of $12.00. The stock’s fifty day moving average price is $5.42 and its two-hundred day moving average price is $6.93. The firm has a market cap of $7.17 million, a price-to-earnings ratio of -0.27 and a beta of 1.55.

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.