Bio­haven touts a pair of PhI­II wins for mi­graine pill, but shares ric­o­chet off of weak da­ta

Bio­haven has re­leased a set of pos­i­tive Phase III da­ta for their fast-act­ing mi­graine drug, which close­ly par­al­lel a ri­val at Al­ler­gan and trail well be­hind Eli Lil­ly’s las­mid­i­tan. And the biotech will now join the scram­ble un­der­way for an ap­proval in a field that’s about to be se­vere­ly dis­rupt­ed.

In­vestors didn’t like the num­bers ear­ly Mon­day morn­ing, send­ing shares $BHVN down 40%. That clear­ly wasn’t the way Bio­haven was bet­ting. The biotech paid Bris­tol-My­ers Squibb $50 mil­lion just a cou­ple of weeks ago to re­struc­ture their li­cens­ing deal, cut­ting the roy­al­ty stream to the sin­gle dig­its. But in the hours up to the close, the stock — backed by some heavy­weight mar­ket play­ers — went on a roller coast­er ride in the red, end­ing the day down 7%.

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