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    Why Tarsus Pharmaceuticals (TARS) Is Up 6.8% After Raising XDEMVY 2026 Sales Guidance - And What's Next

    Simply Wall St·08/16/2026 14:21:37
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    • Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. reported past second-quarter 2026 results showing revenue of US$173.91 million versus US$102.66 million a year earlier, with net loss narrowing to US$18.55 million and loss per share from continuing operations improving to US$0.43.
    • Alongside these results, the company raised its 2026 XDEMVY net product sales guidance to a higher US$685 million–US$705 million range, signaling management’s increased confidence in the product’s commercial trajectory.
    • We’ll now examine how this upgraded XDEMVY sales guidance could reshape Tarsus’s investment narrative and its longer-term growth assumptions.

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    Tarsus Pharmaceuticals Investment Narrative Recap

    To own Tarsus, you need to believe XDEMVY can keep growing in a relatively new category while the company steadily reins in losses and builds a broader portfolio. The raised 2026 XDEMVY sales guidance, coming alongside stronger top line and a slightly narrower net loss, supports the near term revenue story but does not remove key risks around single product dependence, high SG&A, and the need for durable physician and patient adoption.

    The most relevant recent announcement is Tarsus increasing its 2026 XDEMVY net product sales guidance to US$685 million to US$705 million, directly tied to the second quarter results. This higher range reinforces XDEMVY’s central role in the thesis and elevates the importance of sustaining uptake and retreatment rates. It also sharpens the risk that any slowdown in prescriptions, pricing pressure, or competitive entry could have an outsized effect on both revenue and progress toward profitability.

    Yet beneath the upgraded guidance, investors should still pay close attention to how Tarsus manages its high SG&A spend and dependence on a single drug...

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    Tarsus Pharmaceuticals' narrative projects $1.1 billion revenue and $632.5 million earnings by 2029. This requires 28.3% yearly revenue growth and about a $680.8 million earnings increase from -$48.3 million today.

    Uncover how Tarsus Pharmaceuticals' forecasts yield a $94.11 fair value, a 36% upside to its current price.

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    Some of the most optimistic analysts were already assuming about US$1.4 billion in revenue and roughly US$473 million in earnings by 2029, so this guidance lift may either reinforce that bullish view around stronger XDEMVY adoption or prompt a reset if risks like concentrated revenue from one product start to weigh more heavily in your own expectations.

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