{"id":266263,"date":"2026-02-03T23:40:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266263\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T23:40:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T23:40:08","slug":"are-these-2-asx-healthcare-shares-a-buying-opportunity-after-yesterdays-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/266263\/","title":{"rendered":"Are these 2 ASX healthcare shares a buying opportunity after yesterday&#8217;s crash?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/imaging-scans-16.9-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Doctor checking patient's spine x-ray image.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>During earnings season, it&#8217;s not uncommon to see large share price swings as investors react to results. Unfortunately for two ASX healthcare shares, recent announcements sent their share prices tumbling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-neu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: NEU<\/a>) and Clarity Pharmaceuticals Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-cu6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: CU6<\/a>) experienced share price declines yesterday of 10% and 4% respectively.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Both ASX healthcare shares have had a tough past week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Does this create a buy low opportunity? Or is it going to be more of the same moving forward?<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s find out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Neuren Pharmaceuticals Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-neu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: NEU<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>Neuren Pharmaceuticals is a biopharmaceutical company specialising in developing new therapies for neurodevelopmental disorders that emerge in early childhood and are characterised by impaired connections and signalling between brain cells.<\/p>\n<p>Its share price crashed almost 10% yesterday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/2026\/02\/03\/guess-which-asx-200-healthcare-share-is-crashing-22-on-tuesday-on-european-blow\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">news was released<\/a> that its partner, Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc. (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/nasdaq-acad\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NASDAQ: ACAD<\/a>), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-neu\/announcements\/2026-02-03\/2a1651158\/acadia-provides-update-on-eu-regulatory-submission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">received a negative trend vote<\/a> from Europe&#8217;s drug regulator for trofinetide, its treatment for Rett syndrome.<\/p>\n<p>This dealt a potential blow to future revenue.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>While the drug is already approved in the US, Canada, and Israel, the uncertainty around European approval has investors selling, even though Acadia plans to appeal the decision.<\/p>\n<p>For potential investors, the appeal process will certainly be worth monitoring, as it will directly impact future earnings.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its stock price is now down 15% in just the last 5 days of trading.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on analyst ratings via TradingView, this could be a buy low opportunity for investors.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Analysts ratings via TradingView have an average 12 month price target of $24.73 on this ASX healthcare stock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That indicates a massive upside of 69% from yesterday&#8217;s closing price of $14.63.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However it doesn&#8217;t come without risk, pending the result of the company&#8217;s appeal.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Clarity Pharmaceuticals Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-cu6\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: CU6<\/a>) <\/p>\n<p>This ASX healthcare stock has also been on the decline in the past week following the release of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-cu6\/announcements\/2026-01-30\/2a1650629\/quarterly-activities-appendix-4c-cash-flow-report\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">quarterly report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It is a clinical stage radiopharmaceutical company developing next-generation theranostic (therapy and imaging) products, based on its platform <a href=\"https:\/\/www.claritypharmaceuticals.com\/technology\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SAR Technology<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Clarity Pharmaceuticals shares fell 3.9% yesterday and are down more than 15% in the last week.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After such a large fall in a short period of time, it could be a buy-low opportunity.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This ASX healthcare stock closed trading yesterday at $2.96 per share.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However the TradingView has an average analyst price target of $7.35.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This indicates an upside of more than 148%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>An important factor for future investors to monitor is the ongoing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/2026\/01\/15\/why-investors-are-watching-this-asx-healthcare-stock\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Phase II SECuRE clinical trial<\/a>, which is testing a targeted treatment for advanced prostate cancer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image source: Getty Images During earnings season, it&#8217;s not uncommon to see large share price swings as investors&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":266264,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[134,527,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-266263","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-healthcare","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=266263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}