NORDIC | BIOTECH & HEALTHCARE Your insights to listed Danish & Nordic biotech & healthcare stocks.

The Nordic biotech and healthcare stocks continue on the positive upward trend since the bottom in October 2023. The Danish stocks fared better than the Nordic counterparts for yet another week. Year-to-date the Danish biotech stocks have already delivered a double-digit return.

In the past week, Genmab announced sales of Darzalex in 2023, Evaxion expanded its vaccine development, CS Medica expanded in Australia, Curasight received its first milestone from the Curium deal, and shareholders in SynAct Pharma wants a new board of directors. 12 of the 20 companies had a positive share price development the past week and 12 companies have had a positive share price performance year-to-date.

CS Medica is the best-performing Danish stock year-to-date with a 72% return and Oncozenge AB was the best investment last week.

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DANISH COMPANY NEWS

Ascendis Pharma

No news the past week

Biosergen

No news the past week

Cessatech

Cessatech announces that management and board have exercised all their warrants of series TO2 (Link)

CS Medica

Danske Bank Extends CS MEDICA’s Credit Line (Link)

CS MEDICA Breaks New Ground in Australia with Registration of CANNASEN® Pain Patch and Launch of its Cosmetic Products (Link)

Curasight

Curasight A/S Achieves First Milestone under collaboration with Curium Inc. (Link)

Evaxion Biotech

Evaxion to Develop Tailored Novel Cancer Vaccines Based upon a New Untapped Source of AI-Discovered Targets (Link)

Evaxion Announces Completion of ADS Ratio Change (Link)

ExpreS2ion

No news the past week

Fluoguide

No news the past week

Genmab

Genmab Announces Decision in Arbitration Appeal under License Agreement with Janssen (Link)

Genmab Announces Net Sales of DARZALEX® (daratumumab) for 2023 (Link)

Jyske Bank lowered their price target from 3,225 DKK to 2,850 DKK.

Gubra

Gubra concludes the research agreement with UK Biotech (Link)

Initiator Pharma

No news the past week

IO Biotech

No news the past week

Pila Pharma

No news the past week

Saniona

No news the past week

Scandion Oncology

No news the past week

SynAct Pharma

The Board of Directors of SynAct Pharma AB has received a request to convene an EGM (Link)

ViroGates

No news the past week

Zealand Pharma

Zealand Pharma major shareholder announcement: Van Herk Investments (Link)

Y-mAbs Therapeutics

No news the past week

2cureX

No news the past week

SELECTED CASES

SHARE PRICE DEVELOPMENTS – Danish stocks

On average, the Danish biotech and healthcare stocks delivered a positive share price performance of the past week of 2%. The most notable news were Genmab announcing sales of Darzalex for 2023, Evaxion expanding its vaccine development, CS Medica breaking ground in Australia, Curasight receiving its first milestone from the Curium deal, and major shareholders in SynAct Pharma wanting a new board of directors. The best stocks year-to-date are CS Medica, Y-mAbs Therapeutics, and Expres2ion Biotech Holding with 59-72% increases already after four weeks of trading. Overall the Danish biotech and healthcare stocks are in positive territory this year with a year-to-date return of 10.1%.

Read more about Curasight (in Danish): Positive studiedata mod lungekræft styrker Curasights stærke kursudvikling

Overview of share price developments the past week, year-to-date, and last twelve months

NORDIC BIOTECH & HEALTHCARE DEVELOPMENTS

The past week, the all Nordic index Kapital Partner Nordic Healthcare Index (KPHC) rose 0.4% to 65.10 and the index is slowly continuing its recovery from the all-time low in October of 57.12. In the past 12 months, it has significantly underperformed relative to large caps, while the venture/small cap Kapital Partner Nordic Growth Exchanges index (KPNGX) has followed the KPHC-index’s downward trajectory.

The index development for Kapital Partner Healthcare Index the past 12 months

46-111% in weekly retrun for the three best performing Nordic biotech & healthcare stocks the past week

Oncozenge AB (111%) (Nordnet) is a Swedish pharmaceutical company that develops treatment for pain relief in patients suffering from oral pain caused by radiation therapy and chemotherapy for cancer. After completing phase 2 studies, the company’s product candidate is under further development as a basis for applying for regulatory market approvals and commercialization.

Scandinavian ChemoTech AB (102%) (Nordnet) is a research and development company that has developed the technology Tumor-Specific Electroporation – TSE ™ for the treatment of various cancers. The technology means that electronic pulses are sent to the treated area and the membranes of the tumor cells are opened to reach their DNA. 

In the past week, Scandinavian ChemoTech achieved a ground-breaking milestone in head & neck cancer treatment. Read more (Link).

PMD Device Solutions AB (46%) (Nordnet) is a Swedish biopharmaceutical company. Today, the business is focused on developing peptide-based medicines, which includes treatment from wound care. The products can, for example, be used in the treatment of tendon repair, venous leg ulcers, diabetic foot ulcers, and other chronic wounds. The company previously went by the name Promore Pharma.

Sources: Refinitiv & Nordnet