Lineage Cell Therapeutics price target lowered to $3 from $4 at B. Riley

B. Riley analyst Mayank Mamtani lowered the firm’s price target on Lineage Cell Therapeutics (LCTX) to $3 from $4 and keeps a Buy rating on the shares. Lineage Cell Therapeutics’ Q4 recap focused on Roche (RHHBY)-partnered OpRegen program, steadily advancing earlier-stage wholly-owned programs, and Lineage’s dominant position in large-scale allogeneic manufacturing to produce millions of retinal pigment epithelium cells, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The OpRegen dry AMD opportunity could come through the ongoing Phase II GAlette study interim data release, and Roche opting to progress to a randomized controlled study to confirm high efficacy benefits noted with optimized delivery system in sizeable patient population, the firm says.