Charles River Laboratories Inte with ticker code (CRL) have now 12 analysts covering the stock with the consensus suggesting a rating of ‘Buy’. The target price ranges between 300 and 241 with a mean TP of 269.25. With the stocks previous close at 220.34 this would imply there is a potential upside of 22.2%. The day 50 moving average is 203.88 and the 200 moving average now moves to 243.99. The market capitalisation for the company is $11,500m. Visit the company website at: https://www.criver.com
The potential market cap would be $14,053m based on the market concensus.
Charles River Laboratories International, a non-clinical contract research organization, provides drug discovery, non-clinical development, and safety testing services in the United States, Europe, Canada, the Asia Pacific, and internationally. It operates through three segments: Research Models and Services (RMS), Discovery and Safety Assessment (DSA), and Manufacturing Solutions (Manufacturing). The RMS segment produces and sells rodent research model strains and purpose-bred rats and mice for use by researchers. This segment also provides a range of services to assist its clients in supporting the use of research models in research and screening non-clinical drug candidates, including research models, genetically engineered models and services, insourcing solutions, and research animal diagnostic services. The DSA segment offers early and in vivo discovery services for the identification and validation of novel targets, chemical compounds, and antibodies through delivery of non-clinical drug and therapeutic candidates ready for safety assessment; and safety assessment services, such as toxicology, pathology, safety pharmacology, bioanalysis, drug metabolism, and pharmacokinetics services. The Manufacturing segment provides in vitro methods for conventional and rapid quality control testing of sterile and non-sterile pharmaceuticals and consumer products. This segment also offers specialized testing of biologics that are outsourced by pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies; and avian vaccine services that provide specific-pathogen-free (SPF) fertile chicken eggs, SPF chickens, and diagnostic products used to manufacture vaccines. The company also provides contract vivarium operation services to biopharmaceutical clients. Charles River Laboratories International was founded in 1947 and is headquartered in Wilmington, Massachusetts.
