
Drug developer vTv Therapeutics' shares VTVT.O rise 3.2% to $16.3 premarket
Brokerage H.C. Wainwright starts coverage with "buy" rating, sets PT at $36
The new price target is more than double the stock's last close
Brokerage says a late-stage study of "underappreciated" diabetes therapy is set to resume in Q2 after the FDA lifted the clinical hold in March 2025
Company is testing cadisegliatin, an oral adjunctive therapy to insulin for treatment of type 1 diabetes
Brokerage believes overhang has been lifted from VTVT's shares and company can now enroll the patients in the late-stage study
Up to last close, stock up 14.4% YTD