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Minimal Impact from Competitor's Approval in Chronic Hep D; Maintain OP
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Minimal Impact from Competitor's Approval in Chronic Hep D; Maintain OP
Biotechnology - Oncology & Rare Diseases
Rare Diseases - Market Overweight
MIRUM PHARMACEUTICALS, INC. (MIRM) May 26, 2026
Minimal Impact from Competitor's Approval in Chronic Hep Rating:
D; Maintain OP Outperform
Price:
$98.90
The Wolfe Byte Price Target:
Hepcludex finally secures U.S. approval for chronic HDV. We don't think there is $145
% Upside:a material first mover's advantage here. We continue to believe that brelovitug's 46.6%
superior product profile combined with its longer LOE makes it a more favorable
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investment case for this market. View Comp Table
Company Information
Gilead's (covered by Alex Hammond) Hepcludex received accelerated approval on 52-Week Range $44 - $111
Friday (5/22). Recall that Hepcludex was approved in the EU in 2020 but received a Market Cap. (MM) $6,031
CRL in the U.S. Oct 2022 due to manufacturing issues. Given Hepcludex's de-risked Enterprise Value (MM) $5,758 Shares Out. (MM) 61.0
clinical profile, we think the competitive readthrough to Mirum's brelovitug had been Avg. Value Traded (MM) $44.88
incrementally priced in, with the recent approval not changing our HDV thesis. In our SI% of Float 17.1%
base case, we had assumed a competitive market for HDV not only from GILD, but
also from VIR's tobevibart + elebsiran combo. As such, we modeled a peak market 120110
share of ~25% in diagnosed, insured HDV patients under care with a ~$670M unadj. 100
WW peak sales. 9080
Exhibit 1 - Gilead Comments Over Time - Hepcludex U.S. Filing 6050
Jun-25 Jul-25 Aug-25 Sep-25 Oct-25 Nov-25 Dec-25 Jan-26 Feb-26 Mar-26 Apr-26 May-26
MIRM
Source: FactSet
Priced as of 05/26/26
Kalpit Patel
kpatel@wolferesearch.com
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Gugan Raghuraman
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