Piper Sandler Maintains Overweight Rating for Ocular Therapeutix: Here's What You Need To Know

Piper Sandler has decided to maintain its Overweight rating of Ocular Therapeutix OCUL and raise its price target from $10.00 to $15.00.

Shares of Ocular Therapeutix are trading up 1.22% over the last 24 hours, at $9.98 per share.

A move to $15.00 would account for a 50.3% increase from the current share price.

About Ocular Therapeutix

Ocular Therapeutix Inc is a biotechnology company that specializes in therapies for diseases and conditions of the eye. The company uses its proprietary hydrogel platform technology to deliver therapeutic agents to the eye. Its pipeline consists of eye medication that aims to overcome the limitations of current eye-drop-based therapies for ophthalmic diseases and conditions. Ocular Therapeutix aims to offer medication to replace the existing eye-drop therapy regimen, with the aim of lasting weeks or months with a one-time product application. Its pipeline product includes Dextenza, OTX-TIC, OTX-TKI, and OTX-IVT.

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