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

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

Kala Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:KALA) released its quarterly earnings results on Wednesday, February, 12th. The company reported ($0.63) EPS for the quarter, missing the Thomson Reuters' consensus estimate of ($0.60) by $0.03. The company earned $1.18 million during the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $2.92 million. View Kala Pharmaceuticals' Earnings History.

Kala Pharmaceuticals is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 14th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

5 brokers have issued twelve-month price objectives for Kala Pharmaceuticals' stock. Their forecasts range from $6.00 to $51.00. On average, they expect Kala Pharmaceuticals' stock price to reach $18.20 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 180.0% from the stock's current price. View Analyst Price Targets for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

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

News articles about KALA stock have been trending somewhat positive on Monday, InfoTrie reports. The research firm identifies positive and negative news coverage by monitoring more than six thousand blog and news sources in real-time. The firm ranks coverage of public companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores nearest to five being the most favorable. Kala Pharmaceuticals earned a media sentiment score of 1.8 on InfoTrie's scale. They also gave news articles about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent news coverage is extremely unlikely to have an effect on the company's share price in the next few days. View News Stories for Kala Pharmaceuticals.

Kala Pharmaceuticals saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 5,240,000 shares, an increase of 11.5% from the January 15th total of 4,700,000 shares. Based on an average trading volume of 545,600 shares, the short-interest ratio is presently 9.6 days. Approximately 19.4% of the shares of the company are sold short. View Kala Pharmaceuticals' Current Options Chain.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Kala Pharmaceuticals investors own include Exelixis (EXEL), Amarin (AMRN), Nabriva Therapeutics (NBRV), SCYNEXIS (SCYX), Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE), TG Therapeutics (TGTX), Zynerba Pharmaceuticals (ZYNE), Inovio Pharmaceuticals (INO), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX) and Catalyst Pharmaceuticals (CPRX).

(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' stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors 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 Wedbush Securities Inc. (0.45%). Company insiders that own Kala Pharmaceuticals stock include Gregory Grunberg, Howard B Rosen and Ra Capital Healthcare Fund Lp. 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 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., Wedbush Securities Inc., State Street Corp, Alyeska Investment Group L.P., Virtu Financial LLC, UBS Group AG and Boston Partners. Company insiders that have bought Kala Pharmaceuticals stock in the last two years include Gregory Grunberg, Howard B Rosen and Ra Capital Healthcare Fund Lp. View Insider Buying and Selling 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 $6.50.