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TICKERS: COYA

Is This Biopharmaceutical Co. Developing ALS Drug a Buy?
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Read to find out what analysts think of Houston-based Coya Therapeutics Inc. (COYA:NASDAQ), which is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies for neurodegenerative, autoimmune, and metabolic diseases.

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Coya Therapeutics Inc.

(COYA:NASDAQ)

Consensus Average Rating & Price Target

Price targets are based on the original currency and converted to US and/or CA using current exchange rates at the time of publication.

Rating: Buy

Target: US $15.63 / CA $21.56

How Avg Analyst Ratings Are Calculated
08/24/2026
Raghuram Selvaraju – H.C. Wainwright & Co.
Price at Time of Rating: US $4.87 / CA $6.72
Rating: Buy
Target Price: US $18.00 / CA $24.84
08/23/2026
Dr. Boobalan Pachaiyappan – ROTH Capital Partners
Price at Time of Rating: US $4.87 / CA $6.72
Rating: Buy
Target Price: US $12.00 / CA $16.56
08/17/2026
Ilya Zubkov – Freedom Broker
Price at Time of Rating: US $4.79 / CA $6.61
Rating: Buy
Target Price: US $15.50 / CA $21.39
08/11/2026
Chad Messer – Lake Street Capital Markets
Price at Time of Rating: US $4.64 / CA $6.40
Rating: Buy
Target Price: US $17.00 / CA $23.46

Houston-based Coya Therapeutics Inc. (COYA:NASDAQ) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies designed to restore the anti-inflammatory and immune-regulating functions of regulatory T cells, or Tregs, across neurodegenerative, autoimmune, and metabolic diseases.

The company's pipeline includes several Treg-focused approaches, but its lead program is COYA 302, which Coya describes as a combination therapy designed to enhance Treg activity while also reducing inflammatory immune activity.

Its most advanced focus is amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a progressive neurodegenerative disease for which treatment options remain limited. COYA 302 combines Coya's proprietary low-dose interleukin-2, or LD IL-2, with CTLA-4 Ig in an effort to increase the number and anti-inflammatory function of Tregs while suppressing inflammatory activity from immune cells. The company believes this dual approach could address neuroinflammation, which plays an important role in ALS progression.

COYA 302 is currently being evaluated in the Phase 2 ALSTARS trial, a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study in adults with ALS being conducted at sites in the United States and Canada. Coya said in its August 2026 corporate update that enrollment is proceeding as planned, with completion expected this year and topline results targeted for the first quarter of 2027. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has also granted COYA 302 Fast Track designation for ALS, although the drug remains investigational and has not been approved by the FDA.

Beyond ALS, Coya said it is preparing to expand COYA 302 into frontotemporal dementia (FTD), with a Phase 2a study planned in the coming months. The FDA accepted the company's investigational new drug application for the FTD program in January 2026, while Coya's broader development strategy also encompasses other neurodegenerative conditions, including Alzheimer's disease and Parkinson's disease. Coya has also reported proof-of-concept data from an academic study of its COYA 301 program in Alzheimer's disease, providing a broader potential application of the company's Treg-focused platform.

The immediate catalyst for Coya is therefore the Phase 2 ALS program, with the company expecting to complete ALSTARS enrollment in 2026 and report topline data in the first quarter of 2027, while simultaneously preparing the FTD study.

1From the following analysts' ratings, Street Smart came up with an average rating of Buy and an average target price of US$15.63 / CA$21.56.

Raghuram Selvaraju — H.C. Wainwright & Co.

H.C. Wainwright analyst Raghuram Selvaraju reiterated a Buy rating and US$18 price target on Coya in an August 24 note, citing multiple clinical milestones through the rest of 2026. The company expects to complete enrollment in the ALSTARS Phase 2 trial of lead candidate COYA 302 for ALS in the second half of 2026, with top-line results in 2027 — the first cohort has already entered a 24-week blinded extension, and Selvaraju believes positive data could advance COYA 302 into pivotal ALS trials in late 2027. Coya also plans a Phase 2a study of COYA 302 in frontotemporal dementia in the coming months, with further single-cell proteomics and COYA 303 animal-model data due in H2 2026.

Coya's Q2 net loss of US$0.28 per share came below Selvaraju's US$0.36 estimate on lower operating expenses, and its ~US$43.2 million in cash should fund operations into H2 2027, past the ALSTARS readout. The US$18 target rests on a DCF (12% discount rate, 2% terminal growth) with approval-probability assumptions for COYA 302, implying a US$510 million company value on 28.4 million projected fully diluted shares. Key risks include clinical failure or regulatory rejection of COYA 302, trouble reaching pivotal trials, weak commercial uptake, pipeline delays, partnership issues (including DRL), and equity dilution.

Boobalan Pachaiyappan — Roth Capital Partners

Roth Capital Partners analyst Boobalan Pachaiyappan reiterated a Buy and US$12 target on Coya in an August 23 note, keeping the focus on COYA 302 and the Phase 2 ALSTARS trial — 120 ALS patients over 24 weeks, with enrollment expected in Q4 2026 and top-line results in Q1 2027 (the first cohort has entered a 24-week blinded extension). COYA 302 pairs low-dose IL-2 (to boost regulatory T cells) with CTLA4-Ig (to curb inflammation), and carries patent protection to at least 2040, Fast Track designation, and ~US$43.2 million in cash as of June 30 that funds operations into H2 2027. The key question, Pachaiyappan says, is whether COYA 302 delivers a meaningful 24-week ALSFRS-R gain over a credible placebo decline; Pachaiyappan views a ~2.5-point improvement — or 2.0 points with supportive secondary measures — as potentially enough to support a biologics license application in H2 2027, using approved edaravone's 2.49-point (~33% slowing) benefit as the benchmark. He also flags concentration risk, since the prior exploratory work involved only four ALS patients: a strong result could revalue Coya across both ALS and FTD, which share the same platform, while a weak one could undercut both.

"At a high level, we continue to view Coya as a relatively well-funded, high-risk, high-reward story that is strategically supported by the commercial partner," Pachaiyappan wrote. "A balance sheet that is sufficient to fund operations into 2H27 (at least two quarters beyond the 1Q27 clinical event; our estimates), unused US$30M ATM, and a minimal warrant overhang suggest management's shrewd execution."

Ilya Zubkov — Freedom Broker

Freedom Broker's Ilya Zubkov reiterated a Buy and US$15.50 target on Coya, which ended Q2 2026 with US$43.2 million in cash as spending rose with COYA 302's development. Operating expenses climbed 11% year over year to US$7.3 million — R&D up 37% as the Phase 2 ALSTARS ALS study advanced, partly offset by a 22% cut in G&A — and R&D should stay elevated in H2 as ALSTARS enrollment finishes, and the Phase 2a COYA 302 trial in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) begins. Management expects its cash to fund operations into H2 2027, covering the ALSTARS readout, the FTD launch, and additional milestones through year-end, which lowers the odds of a raise before the key catalyst — though more funding will likely be needed afterward.

ALSTARS remains on track for top-line results in Q1 2027; the first cohort has completed the initial 24-week placebo-controlled period and entered a second 24-week blinded extension in which participants receive one of two COYA 302 dosing regimens. Coya could finish enrolling all 120 patients in H2 2026, with the ALSFRS-R measure gauging whether the therapy slows ALS; Zubkov believes a successful primary endpoint could trigger a pilot Phase 3 financed by Dr. Reddy's Laboratories under its global commercialization deal for COYA 302 in ALS. The US$15.50 target — a 10-year DCF on a free-cash-flow-to-the-firm basis — implies a 223.59% return from the prior US$4.79 close, with an AR score of +3.43 (annualized volatility 65.23%) versus the +0.35 threshold for a Buy.

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Chad Messer — Lake Street Capital Markets

Messer expects Coya to complete enrollment in the 120-patient ALSTARS trial ahead of top-line results expected in Q1 2027, the main catalyst for the stock. Full enrollment is still expected in H2 2026, and Coya plans to start a Phase 2a trial of COYA 302 in frontotemporal dementia (FTD) in the coming months after IND acceptance and presentations at the 5th Annual ALS Drug Development Summit and ENCALS. Other H2 2026 catalysts include FTD biomarker data, further single-cell proteomics from ALS and Alzheimer's studies, and in vivo COYA 303 results. Coya ended Q2 with US$43.2 million in cash — enough, according to management, to fund operations past the ALSTARS readout into H2 2027 — while quarterly operating expenses rose to approximately US$7.3 million from US$6.6 million a year earlier.

Messer's US$17 target values COYA 302's U.S. ALS sales alone: a 5x multiple on estimated 2031 sales of US$2.8 billion (~US$2.6 billion), discounted to year-end 2026 at 40% for the early stage, of which he attributes US$388 million (15%) to Coya via low- to mid-teens royalties and milestones; adding ~US$34 million of year-end cash yields a ~US$423 million market cap, or US$17 per share on 23.6 million shares plus in-the-money options and warrants.

Ownership and Share Information1

Coya Therapeutics Inc. has a market cap of US$114.24 million, with 23.46 million shares outstanding. The company's 52-week range is US$3.71-US$7.75.

Management and Insiders own 1% of shares, while Strategic Investors own 13.69%. Institutions own 33.23% of shares, and the remaining 52.08% of shares are held by Retail.


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Disclosures for H.C. Wainwright & Co., Coya Therapeutics, August 24:

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