Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS) Stock Price, News & Analysis

15 Wall Street research analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Apellis Pharmaceuticals in the last year. There are currently 3 hold ratings, 11 buy ratings and 1 strong buy rating for the stock. The consensus among Wall Street research analysts is that investors should "moderate buy" APLS shares.
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15 brokerages have issued 1 year price objectives for Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stock. Their APLS share price targets range from $54.00 to $106.00. On average, they predict the company's share price to reach $77.93 in the next twelve months. This suggests a possible upside of 62.3% from the stock's current price.
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Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stock was trading at $59.86 at the start of the year. Since then, APLS shares have decreased by 19.8% and is now trading at $48.03.
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The company is scheduled to release its next quarterly earnings announcement on Thursday, May 2nd 2024.
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Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:APLS) released its quarterly earnings results on Tuesday, February, 27th. The company reported ($0.73) earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, meeting the consensus estimate of ($0.73). The business earned $146.38 million during the quarter, compared to analyst estimates of $143.34 million. Apellis Pharmaceuticals had a negative trailing twelve-month return on equity of 178.60% and a negative net margin of 133.34%. The business's quarterly revenue was up 545.9% compared to the same quarter last year. During the same quarter last year, the firm earned ($1.50) EPS.

ETFs with the largest weight of Apellis Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:APLS) stock in their portfolio include Virtus LifeSci Biotech Products ETF (BBP), Jacob Forward ETF (JFWD) and SPDR S&P Biotech ETF (XBI).Principal Healthcare Innovators ETF (BTEC).

18 employees have rated Apellis Pharmaceuticals Chief Executive Officer Cedric Francois on Glassdoor.com. Cedric Francois has an approval rating of 100% among the company's employees. This puts Cedric Francois in the top 10% of approval ratings compared to other CEOs of publicly-traded companies. 74.0% of employees surveyed would recommend working at Apellis Pharmaceuticals to a friend.

Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Apellis Pharmaceuticals investors own include AbbVie (ABBV), OPKO Health (OPK), Fate Therapeutics (FATE), Sorrento Therapeutics (SRNE), Viking Therapeutics (VKTX), Allena Pharmaceuticals (ALNA), Amarin (AMRN), Anavex Life Sciences (AVXL), Axsome Therapeutics (AXSM) and BioXcel Therapeutics (BTAI).

Apellis Pharmaceuticals (APLS) raised $150 million in an initial public offering on Thursday, November 9th 2017. The company issued 10,700,000 shares at $13.00-$15.00 per share. Citigroup, J.P. Morgan and Evercore ISI served as the underwriters for the IPO.

Apellis Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by many different retail and institutional investors. Top institutional shareholders include Hennion & Walsh Asset Management Inc. (0.01%), Future Financial Wealth Managment LLC (0.00%) and Portman Square Capital LLP (0.00%). Insiders that own company stock include A Sinclair Dunlop, Adam J Townsend, Alec Machiels, Caroline Baumal, Cedric Francois, David O Watson, Federico Grossi, James George Chopas, Jeffrey Eisele, Karen Lewis, Lukas Scheibler, Mark Jeffrey Delong, Morningside Venture Investment, Nicole D Perry, Nur Nicholson, Pascal Deschatelets, Timothy Eugene Sullivan and Victoria L Brown.
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Shares of APLS stock can be purchased through any online brokerage account. Popular online brokerages with access to the U.S. stock market include Charles Schwab, E*TRADE, Fidelity, and Vanguard Brokerage Services.
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