Market Cap 162.05B
Revenue (ttm) 33.42B
Net Income (ttm) 4.09B
EPS (ttm) N/A
PE Ratio 14.62
Forward PE 14.54
Profit Margin 12.24%
Debt to Equity Ratio 9.24
Volume 2,252,400
Avg Vol 2,445,832
Day's Range N/A - N/A
Shares Out 537.71M
Stochastic %K 8%
Beta 0.49
Analysts Sell
Price Target $316.07

Company Profile

Amgen Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and delivers human therapeutics worldwide. The company's principal products include Enbrel for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, and psoriatic arthritis; Otezla for the treatment of adult patients with plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and oral ulcers associated with Behçet's disease; Prolia to treat postmenopausal women with osteoporosis; XGEVA for skeletal-related events prevention; Repatha, which reduces the risks of my...

Industry: Drug Manufacturers - General
Sector: Healthcare
Phone: 805 447 1000
Fax: 805 447 1010
Address:
One Amgen Center Drive, Thousand Oaks, United States
scientificway
scientificway Jul. 31 at 8:20 PM
$AMGN MDXG, how much after a year
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FinancialAdviceBot
FinancialAdviceBot Jul. 31 at 8:12 PM
$AMGN this'll rip some serious ass soon. mark this post.
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OptionsNavigator Jul. 31 at 6:46 PM
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Ashtooon
Ashtooon Jul. 31 at 4:50 PM
$SNGX For those who would like to know. Why this is far from over and has more potential than AMGN. SNGX- $4+ AMGN-$300+ ✅ Positive Phase 2a Trial Results for SGX945 (Dusquetide) in Behçet’s Disease • Soligenix announced successful Phase 2a results showing biological efficacy of SGX945 in patients with Behçet’s disease. • The treatment delivered ~40% improvement in oral ulcers versus placebo after 4 weeks in 7 out of 8 patients treated. • Notably, no treatment‑related adverse events were observed, compared to side effects like diarrhea and nausea associated with the approved drug apremilast (Otezla®) AKA $AMGN . • The company plans a reformulation for subcutaneous home‑based dosing and is preparing for a larger placebo-controlled Phase 2 study. More in Comments👇
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BullSignalPro
BullSignalPro Jul. 31 at 4:32 PM
$SNGX competitor Otezla® is owned by $AMGN which trades at $300 - Soligenix announced positive Phase 2a trial results for SGX945 (dusquetide) in treating Behçet’s Disease. The drug matched or outperformed the already-approved apremilast (Otezla®) in oral ulcer healing, even after SGX945 was stopped at week 4. No adverse side effects were reported, and the company plans to reformulate it for home-based self-injection use (like weight-loss drugs).
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Ashtooon
Ashtooon Jul. 31 at 4:27 PM
Top Watchlist Today July 31st. $ATCH Revised new plans, huge improvement. $SNGX released news this morning of better results than its competitor $AMGN which is currently around $300 per share. Has previous history of huge runs. $ENSC Very positive opioid news released today. I’m in. $HCTI Ahh **** Here we go again lol. One last time before r/s?
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BullSignalPro
BullSignalPro Jul. 31 at 3:45 PM
$SNGX competitor Otezla® is owned by $AMGN which trades at $300 - Soligenix announced positive Phase 2a trial results for SGX945 (dusquetide) in treating Behçet’s Disease. The drug matched or outperformed the already-approved apremilast (Otezla®) in oral ulcer healing, even after SGX945 was stopped at week 4. No adverse side effects were reported, and the company plans to reformulate it for home-based self-injection use (like weight-loss drugs).
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SparkyReturns
SparkyReturns Jul. 31 at 2:37 PM
$AZN Hey, just FYI. $NVS $MRK $AMGN
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look2theblue
look2theblue Jul. 31 at 12:06 PM
$CRDF Correct. I was one of them. Ready to continue holding short expecting the data to fall apart on this readout. Instead, that didn't happen, on the contrary we saw the December data be reaffirmed and in some cases improved - deepening and durable response (among pretty sick stage 3/4 patients in the 30mg arm). Not at all what I expected to see (great for the patients, bad for those of us short). Didn't feel comfortable holding that short position once this data became available Tuesday. May take some time for the market to digest, but it's pretty clear this dataset (in a phase 3) would sail to approval. I think the likes of $PFE $BMY or $AMGN have probably taken notice.
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Quantumup
Quantumup Jul. 30 at 6:44 PM
Cantor⬆️ $REPL to Overweight from Neutral and said that it expects shrs to trade to pre-CRL levels over $12/shr in the case the CRL is overturned—views odds of RP1's Accelerated Approval (AA) as greatly improved. $IOVA $AMGN $ONCY $CAPR Cantor said, "We are upgrading $REPL from N to OW on the news of CBER head Dr. Vinay Prasad's departure last night." Cantor added, "Our sense is the surprise CRL of RP1 on 7/22 was a result of senior leadership (likley Dr. Prasad) overruling the review team, and we view his departure as removing a major obstacle for the potential CRL overturn. As such, we now view the odds of RP1's Accelerated Approval (AA) as greatly improved, assuming the review team remains supportive of the approval."
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scientificway
scientificway Jul. 31 at 8:20 PM
$AMGN MDXG, how much after a year
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FinancialAdviceBot
FinancialAdviceBot Jul. 31 at 8:12 PM
$AMGN this'll rip some serious ass soon. mark this post.
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OptionsNavigator Jul. 31 at 6:46 PM
BIG PHARMA: $LLY $AMGN $NVO $SNY and more 👇🏻⬇️✅
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Ashtooon
Ashtooon Jul. 31 at 4:50 PM
$SNGX For those who would like to know. Why this is far from over and has more potential than AMGN. SNGX- $4+ AMGN-$300+ ✅ Positive Phase 2a Trial Results for SGX945 (Dusquetide) in Behçet’s Disease • Soligenix announced successful Phase 2a results showing biological efficacy of SGX945 in patients with Behçet’s disease. • The treatment delivered ~40% improvement in oral ulcers versus placebo after 4 weeks in 7 out of 8 patients treated. • Notably, no treatment‑related adverse events were observed, compared to side effects like diarrhea and nausea associated with the approved drug apremilast (Otezla®) AKA $AMGN . • The company plans a reformulation for subcutaneous home‑based dosing and is preparing for a larger placebo-controlled Phase 2 study. More in Comments👇
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BullSignalPro
BullSignalPro Jul. 31 at 4:32 PM
$SNGX competitor Otezla® is owned by $AMGN which trades at $300 - Soligenix announced positive Phase 2a trial results for SGX945 (dusquetide) in treating Behçet’s Disease. The drug matched or outperformed the already-approved apremilast (Otezla®) in oral ulcer healing, even after SGX945 was stopped at week 4. No adverse side effects were reported, and the company plans to reformulate it for home-based self-injection use (like weight-loss drugs).
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Ashtooon
Ashtooon Jul. 31 at 4:27 PM
Top Watchlist Today July 31st. $ATCH Revised new plans, huge improvement. $SNGX released news this morning of better results than its competitor $AMGN which is currently around $300 per share. Has previous history of huge runs. $ENSC Very positive opioid news released today. I’m in. $HCTI Ahh **** Here we go again lol. One last time before r/s?
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BullSignalPro
BullSignalPro Jul. 31 at 3:45 PM
$SNGX competitor Otezla® is owned by $AMGN which trades at $300 - Soligenix announced positive Phase 2a trial results for SGX945 (dusquetide) in treating Behçet’s Disease. The drug matched or outperformed the already-approved apremilast (Otezla®) in oral ulcer healing, even after SGX945 was stopped at week 4. No adverse side effects were reported, and the company plans to reformulate it for home-based self-injection use (like weight-loss drugs).
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SparkyReturns
SparkyReturns Jul. 31 at 2:37 PM
$AZN Hey, just FYI. $NVS $MRK $AMGN
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look2theblue
look2theblue Jul. 31 at 12:06 PM
$CRDF Correct. I was one of them. Ready to continue holding short expecting the data to fall apart on this readout. Instead, that didn't happen, on the contrary we saw the December data be reaffirmed and in some cases improved - deepening and durable response (among pretty sick stage 3/4 patients in the 30mg arm). Not at all what I expected to see (great for the patients, bad for those of us short). Didn't feel comfortable holding that short position once this data became available Tuesday. May take some time for the market to digest, but it's pretty clear this dataset (in a phase 3) would sail to approval. I think the likes of $PFE $BMY or $AMGN have probably taken notice.
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Quantumup
Quantumup Jul. 30 at 6:44 PM
Cantor⬆️ $REPL to Overweight from Neutral and said that it expects shrs to trade to pre-CRL levels over $12/shr in the case the CRL is overturned—views odds of RP1's Accelerated Approval (AA) as greatly improved. $IOVA $AMGN $ONCY $CAPR Cantor said, "We are upgrading $REPL from N to OW on the news of CBER head Dr. Vinay Prasad's departure last night." Cantor added, "Our sense is the surprise CRL of RP1 on 7/22 was a result of senior leadership (likley Dr. Prasad) overruling the review team, and we view his departure as removing a major obstacle for the potential CRL overturn. As such, we now view the odds of RP1's Accelerated Approval (AA) as greatly improved, assuming the review team remains supportive of the approval."
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ZacksResearch
ZacksResearch Jul. 30 at 2:33 PM
$AMGN setting up for another earnings beat? Here's why it could happen. Strong drug volumes are expected to offset pricing pressure and biosimilar headwinds — a combo that’s worked in past quarters. Full setup before Q2 earnings here 👉 https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2638209/amgen-gears-up-to-report-q2-earnings-will-the-beat-streak-continue?cid=sm-stocktwits-2-2638209-teaser-4765&ADID=SYND_STOCKTWITS_TWEET_2_2638209_TEASER_4765
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NEWBIGTECH Jul. 30 at 1:40 PM
$ACET This is Huge news on the patent. Granted Broad US Patent #12371663 Today For "ENGINEERED GAMMA DELTA γδ T-CELLS (USEFUL IN THE TREATMENT OF VARIOUS CANCERS, INFECTIOUS DISEASES, AND IMMUNE DISORDERS)". $AMGN $MRK $JNJ WILL be lining up.
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ZacksResearch
ZacksResearch Jul. 30 at 12:16 PM
$AMGN set for a Q2 earnings beat? 🚀 Amgen's Earnings ESP of +1.19% and Zacks Rank #3 suggest a likely positive surprise. Strong volume growth in products like Evenity, Repatha, and Blincyto could drive results, despite pricing pressures. Discover full insights here 👉 https://www.zacks.com/stock/news/2638209/amgen-gears-up-to-report-q2-earnings-will-the-beat-streak-continue?cid=sm-stocktwits-2-2638209-body-4666&ADID=SYND_STOCKTWITS_TWEET_2_2638209_BODY_4666
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clan
clan Jul. 30 at 9:23 AM
$MNKD $UTHR "Blockbuster", "#1", "98% Satisfied"! Can't say that about any other treprostinil; just Tyvaso DPI. Any interest by $AMGN or $MRK ?
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biolover
biolover Jul. 30 at 5:16 AM
$AMGN $LLY $NVO $PFE $VKTX Nothing changed since this post except Amgen and novo drugs suck. And viking reported excellent phase 1 data against the dismal biotech macro. Roche is lost since then. They can’t even confirm that their dual agonist going to phase 3 yet.
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Quantumup
Quantumup Jul. 29 at 7:23 PM
Jefferies⬆️ $KNSA PT to $54 from $45 & reiterated at a Buy after they caught up w/ mgmt. following $KNSA's 2Q25 earnings print. $REGN $AMGN $NVS Jefferies said in its note, "Q2 carries over the success in Q1 with another 'beat & raise' - 2025FY guidance increased from previous $590-605M to $625-640M, supported by growth in new/ repeat Rxers, average DoT and penetration into both target 2+ RP and first RP pop. Monthly KLP-387 dev on track, aiming for '28-29 launch. Co has $308M cash/ expects to remain cash flow positive on annual basis. We raise our PT to $54 from previous $45."
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TechTraderGrok
TechTraderGrok Jul. 28 at 8:16 PM
Sold $AMGN at $301.46 (-1.8%). From Grok: "AMGN's price has dipped below the entry point in this uptrend, and with earnings on August 5, 2025 approaching amid mixed analyst views including a recent BofA Sell rating, exiting the long position now mitigates risk while locking in the current status before potential volatility." https://www.techtrader.ai/?grokwall&post=14218
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rsblades
rsblades Jul. 28 at 3:37 AM
$AMGN Look for a run up into earnings - a dip, and then an opportunity to play again post August 5th. Looking for scalp on the pre-earnings run-up and then a run to the $325+ post earnings.
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Joby099
Joby099 Jul. 28 at 1:45 AM
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DonCorleone77
DonCorleone77 Jul. 27 at 10:11 PM
$XBI $SPY $AMGN $TPST $TXG 2 of 2 - Really Good Article From SFGate: "Layoffs, shutdowns and billions up in smoke. What's wrong with Bay Area biotech?" ....Investor interest drying up isn’t the only issue plaguing biotech. Some companies that expanded to provide tests or treatment for COVID-19 have, inevitably, had to pare back staff. Once-feverish excitement about breakthroughs in cell therapies — where cells are modified to help fight diseases — has lapsed over the past few years. And President Donald Trump isn’t making things easier. Trump’s administration cut more than $1.8 billion in National Institutes of Health grants just from Feb. 8 to April 8, sending shock waves through the nation’s universities. The effects of those moves are still being felt and understood, with research labs scrambling to figure out whether and how they’ll be able to continue their studies. But already, the cuts are rippling into the biotech industry itself. The CEO of Pleasanton’s 10x Genomics, Serge Saxonov, said in his company’s May earnings call that up to half of its revenue is supported by U.S. academic and government research funding. He called the NIH the “foundational jewel of biomedical progress” and said of the research cuts: “We are shooting ourselves in the foot, right when we should be pressing on the accelerator.” The company announced plans to lay off 93 workers just a couple of weeks later, the San Francisco Business Times reported. When Eikon Therapeutics revealed plans to cut 55 workers from its Millbrae office in May, it cast some blame on a pause in its lab hardware project — the company just wouldn’t have labs to sell its instruments to — forced by Trump administration moves. “Government funding cuts have constrained the budgets of academic institutions, necessitating that we pause development of our advanced instruments intended for external researchers,” the company wrote. “The market for these instruments has clearly evaporated.” The cuts are also bringing chaos. In March, a sudden stop work order from Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forced the San Francisco biotech company Vaxart to pause screenings for a massive COVID-19 pill study and cut 10% of its workforce. Thankfully for Vaxart, the department ended up lifting the order, as SFGATE reported, but the company’s CEO didn’t immediately recommit to rolling back the layoff. Thousands of people have lost their jobs, and more will. Even though the past few years haven’t been a full-blown extinction event for biotech, with research in labs and in patient studies churning on, investors’ continued pullback is keeping the future uncertain. Biotech’s laid-off workers will continue to face a rough market. Tempest’s Brady said that there’s still a lot of need for novel science, and a lot of money to be made betting on it — even if the companies behind the research haven’t yet made a dollar of revenue. One of his old workers had just gotten a job offer before the CEO spoke with SFGATE; others are wading through rejections. “If the market is moody, it will come back,” Brady said. “Eventually.”
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DonCorleone77
DonCorleone77 Jul. 27 at 10:08 PM
$XBI $SPY $AMGN $TPST $TXG 1 of 2 - Really Good Article From SFGate: "Layoffs, shutdowns and billions up in smoke. What's wrong with Bay Area biotech?" Just north of San Francisco International Airport lies one of the densest clusters of biotechnology companies in the world. The neighborhoods along Brisbane’s and South San Francisco’s eastern shorelines are massive scientific engines. Into the office parks go ideas, PhDs and money; out comes life-lengthening research. But lately, this strip of land has become ground zero for the Bay Area’s most relentless torrent of layoffs. Even as the massive cuts at tech giants like Google have waned, the local biotech industry is still lurching from one bout of job losses to another. Since late 2022, bad news in biotech has been nearly inescapable: flopped trials, slashed drug pipelines, bankruptcies and stock price collapses that destroyed billions of dollars in value. It’s all led to layoffs, plunging thousands of workers into unemployment amid a competitive job market. Biotech — a field named for the basic premise of using biological processes to develop technology and products, often for health care — is an industry of extreme financial risk and life-or-death stakes. In its Bay Area and Boston hubs, billions are spent on research that may never yield a product. Clinical trials cost millions of dollars but sometimes only result in dangerous side effects. Success, on the other hand, can range from a useful research paper to a treatment for a rare disease, and even a multi-billion-dollar windfall. With experimental science’s potential for immense rewards, biotech has always been a rocky, expensive business. But that doesn’t explain why it’s so rough right now — to the point that one local biotech analyst, Kyle Hipple at Colliers, told SFGATE he hears about major layoffs “every few weeks.” And that may be underselling it. -- An investor exodus leads to a flood of layoffs and shutdowns -- No two companies lay people off for the exact same reason, or under identical conditions. But the Bay Area’s out-of-work researchers can point blame at one overarching culprit: the flow of money into biotech companies went from a torrent to a trickle. Investor funding is the lifeblood of biotech, especially its startups. Even if a small research-focused outfit has some revenue from dealing its intellectual property, that cash typically comes nowhere close to its total costs, and many companies have no revenue at all. They’re relying on investors’ excitement and checks to keep lights on, cell cultures cold and employees paid. For years, that hype grew and grew. In a May report, analysts from Pitchbook called the stretch from 2012 to 2017 biotech’s “steady ascent” before it reached a peak in 2018 — venture capitalists raised an eye-watering $152.3 billion for biotech investing that year. Then, COVID-19 arrived, bringing what Avison Young analyst Howard Huang called a “halo effect” around health care and life sciences. As the pandemic walloped other industries, vaccine development was suddenly front-page news. Investors, Huang told SFGATE, saw the low interest rates that often encourage riskier investing, plus the hype around health care, and poured money into biotech. San Francisco-based Jon Norris, who works with pre-profit biotech companies for HSBC Innovation Banking, agreed with Huang, telling SFGATE that the pandemic made biotech suddenly seem like a safe sector for generalist investors who might previously have shied away from its complexities. Major Bay Area venture firms Andreessen Horowitz and General Catalyst plowed hundreds of millions into the industry. Some pre-product companies went public and saw their valuations soar into the billions, using the fresh funding to pursue multiple costly drug prospects at once, hire teams of researchers and grow into larger offices. “When we’re having record years, there’s a lot of froth to the market,” Norris said. “People get very excited. Folks who haven’t been involved necessarily on a day-to-day basis jump in because they’re trying to leverage up in a hot area.” (By “froth,” Norris basically meant, “overvalued companies.”) The investor excitement wouldn’t last forever. From August 2021 to May 2022, the Nasdaq Biotechnology Index, which tracks the industry’s stock prices with a special focus on giants like Amgen and Moderna, dropped by more than 30%. Several newly public biotech companies saw their market caps plummet, vanishing billions of dollars in value. Pitchbook’s analysts dubbed the stretch from 2022 onward the “market rationalization.” Norris called 2023 a “year of retrenchment.” Either way, it was rough for the industry. When investor confidence falls, it’s more difficult for public companies to raise additional cash. And startups suddenly needed better results — not just the start of a trial, but positive data from it — to hit their next “value inflection point” and win new venture funds in a Series B round, for example, Norris said. As the industry was left without the continued investment it needed, workers began to see the flip side of 2021’s funding heyday — especially the further their employers got from their last funding rounds. The companies that ballooned in size also burned through their cash, and are now cutting staff, and entire drug pipelines, to give other bets more time. During one week in March, two biotech firms that share a San Carlos office park received poor trial results and gutted their workforces — each had once been worth more than $1 billion. At several companies, full-scale shutdowns have followed in the wake of multiple rounds of layoffs. Even the companies that do survive will look different as a result of the crash. Norris said that if they aren’t able to get large funding rounds, “They’re going to cut back staff and they’re going to really streamline, because people are unsure of where the bottom is in the market right now.” -- Even ‘gold standard’ science isn’t enough -- Stephen Brady, the CEO of Tempest Therapeutics, told SFGATE that two words often come to mind when he tries to sum up the biotech industry’s state of affairs: “brutal and surreal.” An industry veteran who developed two drugs at past companies that got the companies sold, Brady is now seeing, up close, the ugly reality of investors fleeing biotech. Based in Brisbane, Tempest designs oncology drugs meant to kill tumor cells and help the immune system target them. In 2021, the company opted to test its lead candidate, called amezalpat, on patients with newly diagnosed hepatocellular carcinoma — the common and deadly disease known more simply as liver cancer. Brady had hoped to raise more money at the end of 2021, but he noticed a sudden shift in investors’ interest in oncology. Still, on a Wednesday in October 2023, Tempest announced extremely positive results from a study on amezalpat. The drug looked like a success, building on a combination of other oncology drugs to deliver the study’s patients improved prognoses. Tempest’s stock jumped almost 4,000% in value in a single day. The road ahead was clear, Brady told SFGATE. Tempest had the “gold standard” of good data, and could plan another, larger study. Over the next 16 months, Tempest won “orphan drug” and “fast track” designations from the Food and Drug Administration for amezalpat, as well approval for its next trial, the more expansive Phase 3. But the trial would cost about $150 million, and Tempest finished 2024 with less than $42 million in assets. Raising more money, Brady found, was near impossible. He heard the excuse from investors that they’re just not putting money into oncology companies right now, possibly scared away by past losses. It felt like Tempest, after staying small and running on a “shoestring” budget, just hit a wall, the CEO said: “This isn’t the way it’s supposed to work.” “You do a good job and you don’t waste investors’ money and the science works, and you execute well, you should be able to keep that molecule going,” Brady said. In April, the situation — a promising drug, but dire financials — came to a head. Tempest couldn’t afford to run the next amezalpat trial, so it announced it was open to a litany of options for moving the drug forward, including, “mergers, acquisition, partnerships, joint ventures, licensing arrangements or other strategic transactions.” A few weeks later, the company laid off 21 of its 26 full-time employees in an effort to extend its timeline for finding a deal. Since the announcement, several Tempest workers have stayed on as consultants, Brady said, trying to help get this potentially life-saving drug into the trial and into patients’ hands. On June 11, the company raised $4.6 million by selling stock; on June 30, it won the right to test amezalpat in China, on top of its U.S. clearance. Brady is still hopeful that a study will happen, but with the lack of investor interest, he said, “We have given up a long time ago that it’s going to be us running it.” Amid chaos and a dearth of cash, more layoffs are coming According to a few metrics, the industry’s layoff problem is still getting worse. Trade outlet Fierce Biotech reported earlier this month that the first half of 2025 saw 128 layoff rounds at biopharmaceutical companies, up 32% from the period a year prior. Ernst & Young, the accounting firm, published its most dour “biotech survival index” in years in a June report: A whopping 39% of the biotech companies the firm analyzed in 2024 had less than a year’s worth of cash remaining, and an additional 20% had less than two years’ worth. “We’re going to see many more companies, unfortunately, just reach the end of their cash runways,” Fierce editor Gabrielle Masson said on a podcast about the year’s wave of layoffs....
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JFDI
JFDI Jul. 26 at 3:33 PM
$AMGN big base. Emerging from 3wt.
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