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Goldman Sachs Initiates United Therapeutics With Sell Rating

The bank started coverage of the pulmonary-disease drugmaker with a Sell while giving fellow gene-therapy name MeiraGTx a Neutral.

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Goldman Sachs opened coverage on United Therapeutics with a Sell rating, a rare bearish call on a biotech that has built a lucrative franchise in pulmonary arterial hypertension drugs.

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UTHR and MeiraGTx diverge ahead of Goldman calls. United Therapeutics and MeiraGTx have traded on different paths recently, context for Goldman's contrasting Sell and Neutral initiations on the two gene-therapy names.

UTHR and MeiraGTx diverge ahead of Goldman calls

United Therapeutics and MeiraGTx have traded on different paths recently, context for Goldman's contrasting Sell and Neutral initiations on the two gene-therapy names.

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Goldman Sachs began coverage of United Therapeutics with a Sell rating, according to Investing.com. The same day, the bank also initiated MeiraGTx with a Neutral rating, giving investors two fresh reference points on gene-therapy and rare-disease names. A Sell initiation from a major bank on an already-established biotech is unusual and tends to draw more attention than a routine buy call, because it implies the stock's current valuation or growth outlook does not match the price. The neutral stance on MeiraGTx suggests Goldman sees less conviction either way on that smaller, earlier-stage name. The wire item does not include Goldman's price target or the specific reasoning behind the Sell call, so the thesis — whether it centers on pricing risk, competition, or valuation — remains unclear from what's been reported.
What would change this view

If Goldman later publishes a price target or note explaining the Sell call and it cites a temporary, resolvable issue such as a single product's patent cliff rather than a structural valuation gap.

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