Invest Securities has upgraded bioMérieux shares from "neutral" to "buy," while maintaining its target price at €124.
The broker considers yesterday's quarterly results to be "slightly disappointing," particularly due to the underperformance of Molecular Diagnostics, linked to a later flu season.
On the other hand, the sustained pace of BIOFIRE and SPOTFIRE installations is reassuring, Invest adds, noting that the company has confirmed its 2028 targets. Furthermore, a more intense flu epidemic cannot be ruled out in the United States due to historically low vaccination coverage, it concludes.
bioMérieux designs, develops, produces, and sells systems used in clinical practice to diagnose infectious diseases (including HIV, tuberculosis, and respiratory infections), cancers, and cardiovascular pathologies based on a biological sample (blood, saliva, urine, etc.). Net sales break down by sector of application as follows:
- medical applications (84.3%): in industry, microbiological testing of samples from finished products, materials during the manufacturing process, or the environment, primarily in the food-processing, pharmaceutical, and cosmetics sectors;
- industrial applications (15.7%).
The group's diagnostic systems consist of three elements with related services: reagents, instruments (or platforms or analyzers), software, and services.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: Europe/Middle East /Africa (32.3%), North America (45.4%), Asia/Pacific (15.6%), and Latin America (6.7%).
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