Akcea Therapeutics Stock Price, News & Analysis (NASDAQ:AKCA)

Akcea Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "AKCA."

Akcea Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:AKCA) announced its quarterly earnings data on Tuesday, August, 6th. The company reported ($0.40) earnings per share for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.38) by $0.02. The business earned $26.62 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $25.78 million. Akcea Therapeutics had a negative net margin of 65.62% and a negative return on equity of 43.87%. The company's quarterly revenue was up 45.3% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the prior year, the company earned ($0.85) earnings per share. View Akcea Therapeutics' Earnings History.

Akcea Therapeutics is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 4th 2019. View Earnings Estimates for Akcea Therapeutics.

4 brokers have issued 12 month price targets for Akcea Therapeutics' shares. Their forecasts range from $24.00 to $45.00. On average, they expect Akcea Therapeutics' share price to reach $36.00 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 90.1% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Akcea Therapeutics.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Akcea Therapeutics in the last year. There are currently 1 hold rating and 3 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Akcea Therapeutics.

News stories about AKCA stock have trended somewhat positive this week, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Akcea Therapeutics earned a media sentiment score of 0.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned headlines about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, meaning that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the company's share price in the immediate future. View News Stories for Akcea Therapeutics.

Akcea Therapeutics saw a decline in short interest in September. As of September 30th, there was short interest totalling 5,160,000 shares, a decline of 14.3% from the August 30th total of 6,020,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 263,500 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 19.6 days. Approximately 35.0% of the shares of the stock are short sold. View Akcea Therapeutics' Current Options Chain.

Some companies that are related to Akcea Therapeutics include Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ), Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT), Beigene (BGNE), Dr.Reddy's Laboratories (RDY), ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (ACAD), Amarin (AMRN), Horizon Therapeutics (HZNP), Reata Pharmaceuticals (RETA), The Medicines (MDCO), Ascendis Pharma A/S (ASND), GW Pharmaceuticals PLC- (GWPH), Blueprint Medicines (BPMC), United Therapeutics (UTHR), Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals (ARWR) and FibroGen (FGEN).

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(AKCA) raised $125 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Friday, July 14th 2017. The company issued 9,600,000 shares at a price of $12.00-$14.00 per share. Cowen and Company, Stifel and Wells Fargo Securities served as the underwriters for the IPO and BMO Capital Markets was co-manager.

Shares of AKCA can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity and Charles Schwab.

One share of AKCA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $18.94.

Akcea Therapeutics has a market capitalization of $1.76 billion and generates $64.87 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-225,820,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($2.74) on an earnings per share basis. Akcea Therapeutics employs 248 workers across the globe.View Additional Information About Akcea Therapeutics.

The official website for Akcea Therapeutics is http://www.akceatx.com/.

Akcea Therapeutics' mailing address is 22 BOSTON WHARF RD 9TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA, 02210. The company can be reached via phone at 617-207-0202 or via email at [email protected]