Akebia Therapeutics - AKBA Stock Forecast, Price & News

2 Wall Street equities research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Akebia Therapeutics in the last twelve months. There are currently 2 hold ratings for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street equities research analysts is that investors should "hold" AKBA shares. A hold rating indicates that analysts believe investors should maintain any existing positions they have in AKBA, but not buy additional shares or sell existing shares.
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2 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Akebia Therapeutics' stock. Their AKBA share price forecasts range from $1.25 to $1.25. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $1.25 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 121.9% from the stock's current price.
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Akebia Therapeutics' stock was trading at $0.5770 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, AKBA stock has decreased by 2.4% and is now trading at $0.5632.
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Akebia Therapeutics saw a decline in short interest during the month of March. As of March 15th, there was short interest totaling 6,680,000 shares, a decline of 20.3% from the February 28th total of 8,380,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 2,260,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.0 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, May 8th 2023.
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Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:AKBA) announced its earnings results on Thursday, November, 4th. The biopharmaceutical company reported ($0.34) EPS for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.32) by $0.02. The biopharmaceutical company had revenue of $48.76 million for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $50.09 million. Akebia Therapeutics had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 279.65% and a negative net margin of 31.63%. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned ($0.42) EPS.

28 employees have rated Akebia Therapeutics Chief Executive Officer John Butler on Glassdoor.com. John Butler has an approval rating of 97% among the company's employees. This puts John Butler in the top 30% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies.

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Akebia Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AKBA."

Akebia Therapeutics' stock is owned by a variety of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Alerce Investment Management L.P. (8.20%), Renaissance Technologies LLC (1.57%), Geode Capital Management LLC (0.91%), Millennium Management LLC (0.73%), Two Sigma Investments LP (0.20%) and Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio (0.08%). Insiders that own company stock include David A Spellman, Dell Faulkingham, John P Butler, Maxine Gowen, Michel Dahan, Nicole R Hadas, Steven C Gilman, Steven C Gilman, Steven Keith Burke and Violetta Cotreau.
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One share of AKBA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $0.56.

Akebia Therapeutics (NASDAQ:AKBA) has a market capitalization of $103.77 million and generates $292.60 million in revenue each year. The biopharmaceutical company earns $-92,560,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($0.52) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 426 workers across the globe.

Akebia Therapeutics' mailing address is 245 FIRST STREET SUITE 1100, CAMBRIDGE MA, 02142. The official website for the company is www.akebia.com. The biopharmaceutical company can be reached via phone at (617) 871-2098, via email at ir@akebia.com, or via fax at 617-871-2099.