5 Best Small-Cap Biotech Stocks to Buy According to Hedge Funds

4. Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE)

Market Cap: $1.41 billion

Number of Hedge Fund Holders: 45

Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE) is one of the best small-cap biotech stocks to buy according to hedge funds. The company’s stock registered a 22.39% growth from a year ago and a 53.04% percent decline year-to-date. Based on analyst consensus, Wave Life Sciences continues to see a Strong Buy Rating from Wall Street analysts with an average price target of $26.15.

On April 15, Wave Life Sciences announced that its board of directors unanimously approved a plan to redomicile the parent company of the Wave Life Sciences group of companies from Singapore to the United States. It emphasized that having Wave’s parent company domiciled in the United States will streamline Wave’s organizational, statutory, and regulatory structure, resulting in administrative efficiencies and reducing dual financial reporting, regulatory, legal, and other compliance costs, among other benefits.

Through Wave Life Sciences’ listing on NASDAQ, the company has already built a substantial presence in the U.S., with the majority of its operations, its corporate headquarters, the majority of its operating assets, including its manufacturing and research and development facilities, along with the majority of its employees, management team, and board of directors being in the United States.

Wave Life Sciences Chief Financial Officer Kyle Moran said the company believes the United States is the best place to enhance shareholder value. He added:

“With several of our investigational therapies showing tremendous potential to become first- and/or best-in-class treatments, now is the right time and becoming a Delaware corporation is the right strategic move for Wave in order to better align our parent company’s domicile with our operations and our people.”

Wave Life Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:WVE) is a biotechnology company focused on unlocking the broad potential of RNA medicines to transform human health. Wave’s RNA medicines platform, PRISM, combines multiple modalities, chemistry innovation, and deep insights into human genetics to deliver scientific breakthroughs that treat both rare and common disorders.