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Amryt Pharma - NASDAQ listing expected in 2020

February 2020

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  • Epic Code:
  • AMYT
  • Price:
  • 124.5p
Rarely do I want to own, let alone write up, biotech stocks, so when I met Dr Joe Wiley of Dublin-based Amryt Pharma (AMYT; 124.5p) towards the end of last year, it was very much an exception for me. As I describe below, as recently as three months ago Amryt had just one commercial drug and one other in phase III trials. Brokers were looking for sales to be US$21m in 2019 but in September the company concluded a transformational acquisition when it bought two commercial orphan drugs and revenues on a proforma basis are closer to US$150m, with the expectation building that they could climb to US$165-US$168m in the current year. With the US being the bulk of its sales and many of its shareholders there, the company is expe ...

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