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Aerpio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:ARPO) stock is flying high on Thursday after an analyst upgrade gave the company’s shares a boost today.

Let’s take a dive into that news and what potential ARPO investors need to know about it below.

• H.C. Wainwright analyst Robert Burns is responsible for the upgrade today that has ARPO stock on the move.
• His new rating for the biopharmaceutical company bumps it up from a neutral rating to a buy rating.
• This matches the consensus rating for the stock, which is made up of two buy ratings.
• The good news for ARPO stock continues with Burns setting a $22 price target for the shares.
• That’s an incredibly bullish price target compared to the consensus of $2.75 per share.
• It also represents a massive upside of 1,186.6% from the penny stock’s closing price of $1.74 on Wednesday’s close.

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• So why is the H.C. Wainwright taking such a bullish stance on ARPO stock?
• It all has to do with its merger deal with Aadi Bioscience.
• Burns says the deal should put the combined company on a “solid path towards becoming a self-sustaining, commercial-stage enterprise with a differentiated lead product having applicability across multiple specialty oncology indications.”
• ARPO stock is seeing heavy trading today following news of the analyst upgrade.
• As of this writing, more than 117 million shares of the stock have changed hands.
• That’s a massive jump over its daily average trading volume of roughly 5.6 million shares.

ARPO stock was up 57.9% as of Thursday morning and is up 158.6% since the start of the year.

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