Equity Overview
Price & Market Data
Price: $40.95
Daily Change: +$1.34 / 3.26%
Range: $38.00 - $41.44
Market Cap: $3,260,442,880
Volume: 608,878
Performance Metrics
1 Week: 9.64%
1 Month: -9.26%
3 Months: 56.92%
6 Months: 32.85%
1 Year: 97.45%
YTD: 47.56%
Company Details
Employees: 63
Sector: Health technology
Industry: Pharmaceuticals: major
Country: United States
Details
Akero Therapeutics, Inc. engages in the development of treatments for patients with serious metabolic diseases in the United States. The company's lead product candidate is efruxifermin (EFX), an analog of fibroblast growth factor 21 that protects against cellular stress and regulates the metabolism of lipids, carbohydrates, and proteins throughout the body for the treatment of metabolic dysfunction-associated steatohepatitis (MASH) patients. It has a license agreement with Amgen Inc. to develop, manufacture, use, distribute, and sell EFX as a treatment for MASH and other metabolic diseases. The company was formerly known as Pippin Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Akero Therapeutics, Inc. in May 2018. Akero Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.