A new trading day began on Friday, with Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: AKBA) stock price up 4.41% from the previous day of trading, before settling in for the closing price of $2.04. AKBA’s price has ranged from $0.80 to $2.89 over the past 52 weeks.
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Healthcare Sector giant saw their annual sales slid by -10.63% over the last five years. Meanwhile, its annual earnings per share averaged 35.35%. With a float of $226.53 million, this company’s outstanding shares have now reached $236.23 million.
The firm has a total of 181 workers. Let’s measure their productivity. In terms of profitability, gross margin is 60.08%, operating margin of -31.47%, and the pretax margin is -43.33%.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc (AKBA) Insider Activity
As we move forward, let’s examine how large-scale investors are investing in this stock of the Drug Manufacturers – Specialty & Generic Industry. The insider ownership of Akebia Therapeutics Inc is 4.10%, while institutional ownership is 26.51%. The most recent insider transaction that took place on Mar 03 ’25, was worth 84,928. In this transaction CEO and President of this company sold 46,409 shares at a rate of $1.83, taking the stock ownership to the 2,557,921 shares. Before that another transaction happened on Mar 03 ’25, when Company’s SVP, Chief Medical Officer sold 7,144 for $1.83, making the entire transaction worth $13,074. This insider now owns 809,090 shares in total.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc (AKBA) Earnings and Forecasts
According to the Wall Street analysts, stocks earnings will be around 35.35% per share during the next fiscal year.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: AKBA) Trading Performance Indicators
Here are Akebia Therapeutics Inc’s current performance indicators. According to the last quarter’s results, the stock had a quick ratio of 1.21. In addition, a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for the trailing twelve months stands at 3.47.
For the trailing twelve months, Company’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) is -0.33, a number that is poised to hit -0.05 in the next quarter and is forecasted to reach 0.06 in one year’s time.
Technical Analysis of Akebia Therapeutics Inc (AKBA)
Analysing the last 5-days average volume posted by the [Akebia Therapeutics Inc, AKBA], we can find that recorded value of 10.6 million was better than the volume posted last year of 3.4 million. As of the previous 9 days, the stock’s Stochastic %D was 59.46%. Additionally, its Average True Range was 0.22.
During the past 100 days, Akebia Therapeutics Inc’s (AKBA) raw stochastic average was set at 44.32%, which indicates a significant increase from 44.32% during the past two weeks. Based on volatility metrics of the stock, it showed a historical volatility of 205.23% in the past 14 days, which was higher than the 91.80% volatility it showed in the past 100 days.
At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average is $2.06, while its 200-day Moving Average is $1.63. Now, the first resistance to watch is $2.18. This is followed by the second major resistance level at $2.22. The third major resistance level sits at $2.31. If the price goes on to break the first support level at $2.05, it is likely to go to the next support level at $1.96. Should the price break the second support level, the third support level stands at $1.92.
Akebia Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ: AKBA) Key Stats
With a market capitalization of 556.42 million, the company has a total of 236,231K Shares Outstanding. Currently, annual sales are 160,180 K while annual income is -69,410 K. The company’s previous quarter sales were 46,500 K while its latest quarter income was -22,800 K.
