NASDAQ:KALA - Kala Pharmaceuticals Stock Price, Forecast & News

Kala Pharmaceuticals' stock was trading at $7.63 on March 11th, 2020 when Coronavirus reached pandemic status according to the World Health Organization. Since then, KALA shares have decreased by 1.8% and is now trading at $7.49. View which stocks have been mosted impacted by Coronavirus.

4 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Kala Pharmaceuticals in the last year. There are currently 4 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View analyst ratings for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

Kala Pharmaceuticals is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View our earnings forecast for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:KALA) posted its earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company reported ($0.63) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, missing the consensus estimate of ($0.60) by $0.03. The business had revenue of $1.18 million for the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $2.92 million. Kala Pharmaceuticals had a negative net margin of 1,553.29% and a negative return on equity of 173.83%. View Kala Pharmaceuticals' earnings history.

4 brokerages have issued 12 month target prices for Kala Pharmaceuticals' stock. Their forecasts range from $13.00 to $34.00. On average, they anticipate Kala Pharmaceuticals' share price to reach $19.50 in the next year. This suggests a possible upside of 160.3% from the stock's current price. View analysts' price targets for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

News coverage about KALA stock has been trending somewhat negative on Monday, according to InfoTrie Sentiment Analysis. The research firm rates the sentiment of media coverage by analyzing more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of publicly-traded companies on a scale of negative five to positive five, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Kala Pharmaceuticals earned a coverage optimism score of -1.6 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave media coverage about the company a news buzz of 4.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is somewhat unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the next few days. View the latest news aboutKala Pharmaceuticals.

Kala Pharmaceuticals saw a increase in short interest during the month of March. As of March 13th, there was short interest totaling 7,001,400 shares, an increase of 28.2% from the February 27th total of 5,460,000 shares. Based on an average daily volume of 2,339,000 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 3.0 days. Currently, 23.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Kala Pharmaceuticals' Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kala Pharmaceuticals investors own include Amarin (AMRN), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Exelixis (EXEL), NVIDIA (NVDA), SCYNEXIS (SCYX), AbbVie (ABBV), Agile Therapeutics (AGRX), Gilead Sciences (GILD), Micron Technology (MU) and Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE).

(KALA) raised $90 million in an initial public offering (IPO) on Thursday, July 20th 2017. The company issued 6,000,000 shares at a price of $14.00-$16.00 per share. J.P. Morgan and BofA Merrill Lynch acted as the underwriters for the IPO and Wells Fargo Securities and Wedbush PacGrow were co-managers.

Kala Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ under the ticker symbol "KALA."

Kala Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by many different institutional and retail investors. Top institutional shareholders include Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A. (4.06%), Sofinnova Investments Inc. (1.92%), Polaris Venture Management Co. V L.L.C. (1.64%), Alyeska Investment Group L.P. (1.27%), State Street Corp (1.05%) and Geode Capital Management LLC (0.92%). Company insiders that own Kala Pharmaceuticals stock include Gregory Grunberg, Howard B Rosen, Ra Capital Healthcare Fund Lp, Rajeev M Shah and Todd Bazemore. View institutional ownership trends for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

KALA stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Polaris Venture Management Co. V L.L.C., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., Bank of New York Mellon Corp, Bank of America Corp DE, Alambic Investment Management L.P., and Group One Trading L.P.. View insider buying and selling activity for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

KALA stock was purchased by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria S.A., Sofinnova Investments Inc., Nuveen Asset Management LLC, Wedbush Securities Inc., State Street Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Geode Capital Management LLC, and Virtu Financial LLC. Company insiders that have bought Kala Pharmaceuticals stock in the last two years include Gregory Grunberg, Howard B Rosen, Ra Capital Healthcare Fund Lp, Rajeev M Shah, and Todd Bazemore. View insider buying and selling activity for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

Shares of KALA 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 KALA stock can currently be purchased for approximately $7.49.

Kala Pharmaceuticals has a market capitalization of $288.91 million and generates $6.07 million in revenue each year. The company earns $-94,350,000.00 in net income (profit) each year or ($2.76) on an earnings per share basis. Kala Pharmaceuticals employs 130 workers across the globe. View additional information about Kala Pharmaceuticals.

The official website for Kala Pharmaceuticals is http://www.kalarx.com/.

Kala Pharmaceuticals' mailing address is 490 ARSENAL WAY SUITE 120, WATERTOWN MA, 02472. The company can be reached via phone at 781-996-5252 or via email at [email protected]