What happened In response to receiving a favorable analyst rating, shares of Aurinia Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: AUPH), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, rose 12% as of 3:55 p.m. EDT on Tuesday. So what Investors can thank Justin Kim, an analyst at Oppenheimer, for today's double-digit jump. Kim initiated coverage on Aurinia Pharmaceuticals on Monday evening after the market closed and gave shares an "outperform" rating. A price target of $14 was also issued, which is considerably higher than the $5.80 closing share price on Monday. Traders bid up shares in response to the bullish rating and sky-high price target. Image source: Getty Images. Now what Aurinia's phase 3 AURORA trial, which is testing the company's lead product voclosporin as a hopeful treatment for lupus nephritis, is fully enrolled, and management expects to share data with investors in late 2019. Aurinia also boasts two other phase 2 trials in its pipeline that promise to expand voclosporin into treating focal segmental glomerulosclerosis and dry eye syndromes. Success in any of these indications could turn voclosporin into a potential blockbuster drug and would enable Aurinia's share price to continue to soar. It's always hard to handicap an individual drug's odds of success, but we should know much more about its chances when data from the AURORA trial is released. Interested pharma investors will just have to sit tight while we wait for more information. 10 stocks we like better than Aurinia PharmaceuticalsWhen investing geniuses David and Tom Gardner have a stock tip, it can pay to listen. After all, the newsletter they have run for over a decade, Motley Fool Stock Advisor, has quadrupled the market.* David and Tom just revealed what they believe are the ten best stocks for investors to buy right now... and Aurinia Pharmaceuticals wasn't one of them! That's right -- they think these 10 stocks are even better buys. See the 10 stocks *Stock Advisor returns as of June 1, 2019 Brian Feroldi has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has no position in any of the stocks mentioned. The Motley Fool has a disclosure policy.Source