On Thursday, Berenberg raised its recommendation on bioMérieux from 'hold' to 'buy', with a price target raised from 99.6 to 114.5 euros, believing that the French microbiological diagnostics specialist is now 'firing on all cylinders'.

While Berenberg believes that the lower-than-expected 2024 full-year forecasts communicated at the time of the 2023 earnings release do not come as a real surprise, the analyst points out that the excellent performance of the Spotfire multiplex PCR platform is far more surprising.

In this sense, Berenberg considers that the healthcare group's medium-term prospects are currently underestimated by the market, as the return to growth in respiratory testing is accompanied, in his opinion, by successful product launches and good performances in non-respiratory analysis.

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