How are Investors Reacting to the Recent BCRX Stock Upgrade

BCRX Stock Receives New Price Target

An analyst from Barclays just upgraded Biocryst pharmaceuticals, inc. (BCRX) stock, as they envision a 1.89% upside for BCRX shares. BCRX stock has fallen nearly -0.92% since this price target was released.

How Impactful Might this be for the BCRX Stock?

This upgrade should be beneficial for Biocryst pharmaceuticals, inc. as their yearly price action has not been favorable for investors. The BCRX stock has fallen from its 52-week high of $19.99 to its current price of $14.05 and may have some room to bounce back

BCRX's poor recent performance has presented a great opportunity for investors, as their financial ratios are now very attractive. These ratios could have influenced the analyst from Barclays to make their decision to upgrade the BCRX stock.

The Barclays analyst is forecasting a “better risk/reward ratio” for the BCRX stock and has raised their price target to $14. If this prediction comes to fruition, it could represent more than just a 1.89% upside, as it could encourage further growth in the BCRX stock.

BCRX's Recent Upgrade had no effect on their Social Sentiment

Here are the latest analytics from the BCRX Stocktwits and BCRX Twitter communities (over the last 24hrs), respectively:

• 31 Posts (down -90.28%)
• 162 Likes (down -88.89%)
• 95,649 Impressions (down -81.66%)

• 17 Tweets (down -78.21%)
• 229 Likes (up 112.04%)
• 138.38k Impressions (down -82.3%)

As we can see, the recent Barclays analyst upgrade had a similar effect on the social sentiment within both the BCRX Stocktwits and BCRX Twitter communities. This is especially true when we look at the posting volumes and impressions within the BCRX StockTwits and Twitter communities. These metrics are the most influential over a stock's social sentiment and it is not good to see them decrease by such a large amount.

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Lastly, the BCRX Twitter community is able to fetch more impressions than the BCRX Stocktwits community despite having about half of the posting volumes. This is due to large Twitter accounts posting about the BCRX stock on Twitter. We will explore this topic further in the next section.

BCRX Twitter Accounts that Influence Social Sentiment

Here is a count of “whale” accounts that are active on BCRX Twitter (over the past 72 hrs):

• 5 somewhat large Twitter accounts with 10,000+ followers,

There are currently 5 large accounts that are posting about the BCRX stock on Twitter. A lot of these tweets come as re-tweets of a tweet from the largest account that talks about the BCRX stock, which can be found here.

Whether you are trying to stay up-to-date on a stock social sentiment on Stocktwits and/or Twitter; trying to dive deeper into the “whale” accounts that are driving the sentiment for a stock, or just want to keep up with how different stocks are ranking in terms of their social sentiment; there is no better time to get familiar with social sentiment data than now.

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