Why BeyondSpring Stock Is Soaring This Week
Shares of BeyondSpring (NASDAQ: BYSI), a clinical-stage biotech company, have been surging this week in response to a lucrative new partnership with Jiangsu Hengrui Pharmaceuticals in China. Investors are justifiably excited about the partners' new agreement to commercialize and co-develop BeyondSpring's neutropenia-prevention candidate, called plinabulin.
By the time U.S. markets closed on Thursday, BeyondSpring's stock price had already climbed 49.4% from its closing price last Friday.
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