Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS) Stock Forecast, Price & News

15 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apellis Pharmaceuticals in the last year. There are currently 5 hold ratings, 9 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" APLS shares.
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15 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Apellis Pharmaceuticals' shares. Their APLS share price forecasts range from $29.00 to $141.00. On average, they expect the company's share price to reach $66.13 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 51.1% from the stock's current price.
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Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stock was trading at $51.71 on January 1st, 2023. Since then, APLS shares have decreased by 15.4% and is now trading at $43.77.
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Apellis Pharmaceuticals saw a decrease in short interest in August. As of August 31st, there was short interest totaling 12,310,000 shares, a decrease of 10.5% from the August 15th total of 13,750,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 4,640,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is currently 2.7 days.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Monday, November 6th 2023.
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Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLS) posted its quarterly earnings data on Monday, July, 31st. The company reported ($1.02) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of ($1.35) by $0.33. The business earned $95 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $70.38 million. Apellis Pharmaceuticals had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 212.82% and a negative net margin of 356.02%. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 482.8% on a year-over-year basis. During the same period in the prior year, the business posted ($1.46) EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Apellis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:APLS) stock in their portfolio include Invesco Dorsey Wright Healthcare Momentum ETF (PTH), Jacob Forward ETF (JFWD), Vanguard Russell 2000 Growth ETF (VTWG), Principal Healthcare Innovators ETF (BTEC) and Vanguard Small-Cap Growth ETF (VBK).Harbor Health Care ETF (MEDI).

18 employees have rated Apellis Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Officer Cedric Francois on Glassdoor.com. Cedric Francois has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Cedric Francois in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 74.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Apellis Pharmaceuticals to a friend.

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(APLS) raised $150 million in an IPO on Thursday, November 9th 2017. The company issued 10,700,000 shares at $13.00-$15.00 per share. Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Evercore ISI acted as the underwriters for the IPO.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "APLS."

Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by a number of institutional and retail investors. Top institutional investors include BlackRock Inc. (4.88%), State Street Corp (1.94%), Jennison Associates LLC (1.67%), Geode Capital Management LLC (1.27%), Point72 Asset Management L.P. (1.05%) and Artal Group S.A. (0.89%). Insiders that own company stock include A Sinclair Dunlop, Adam J Townsend, Alec Machiels, Cedric Francois, David O Watson, Federico Grossi, James George Chopas, Jeffrey Eisele, Karen Lewis, Lukas Scheibler, Mark Jeffrey Delong, Morningside Venture Investment, Nicole D Perry, Nur Nicholson, Pascal Deschatelets, Timothy Eugene Sullivan, Victoria L Brown and Victoria L Brown.
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Shares of APLS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include WeBull, Vanguard Brokerage Services, TD Ameritrade, E*TRADE, Robinhood, Fidelity, and Charles Schwab.
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One share of APLS stock can currently be purchased for approximately $43.77.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:APLS) has a market capitalization of $5.15 billion and generates $75.42 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-652,170,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($5.83) on an earnings per share basis.

The company employs 767 workers across the globe.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals' mailing address is 100 FIFTH AVENUE, WALTHAM MA, 02451. The official website for the company is www.apellis.com. The company can be reached via phone at (617) 977-5700 or via email at investors@apellis.com.