How to buy Acasti Pharma stock | 0.2084

Acasti Pharma Inc is a biotechnology business based in the US. Acasti Pharma shares (ACST) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Acasti Pharma employs 32 staff and has a market cap (total outstanding shares value) of USD$22.7 million.

How to buy shares in Acasti Pharma

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Acasti Pharma. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: ACST. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Acasti Pharma reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$0.2084, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Acasti Pharma, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Acasti Pharma. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Acasti Pharma's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Acasti Pharma's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$0.2084, which is 62.69% down on its pre-crash value of USD$0.5586 and 19.96% down on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$0.25.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Acasti Pharma shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$369.26 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$247.36.

Acasti Pharma share price

Use our graph to track the performance of ACST stocks over time.

Acasti Pharma shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-20.

Latest market close	USD$0.2084
52-week range	USD$0.17 - USD$3.08
50-day moving average	USD$0.2039
200-day moving average	USD$0.4939
Wall St. target price	USD$2.52
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-1.224

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Acasti Pharma price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $0.2084 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-17)	-0.76%
1 month (2020-10-23)	-0.76%
3 months (2020-08-24)	-69.80%
6 months (2020-05-22)	-67.79%

1 year (2019-11-22)	-89.78%
2 years (2018-11-23)	-69.81%
3 years (2017-11-24)	-89.37%
5 years (2015-11-24)	-91.49%

Acasti Pharma financials

Gross profit TTM	USD$0
Return on assets TTM	-53.77%
Return on equity TTM	-310.01%
Profit margin	0%
Book value	$0.092
Market capitalisation	USD$22.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Acasti Pharma shares

There are currently 457,066 Acasti Pharma shares held short by investors – that's known as Acasti Pharma's "short interest". This figure is 75.1% down from 1.8 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Acasti Pharma shares can be evaluated.

Acasti Pharma's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Acasti Pharma's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Acasti Pharma shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Acasti Pharma shares traded daily (recently around 2.4 million). Acasti Pharma's SIR currently stands at 0.19. In other words for every 100,000 Acasti Pharma shares traded daily on the market, roughly 190 shares are currently held short.

However Acasti Pharma's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Acasti Pharma shares, or, against the total number of tradable Acasti Pharma shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Acasti Pharma's short interest could be expressed as 0% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Acasti Pharma shares in existence, roughly 0 shares are currently held short) or 0.0047% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Acasti Pharma shares, roughly 5 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Acasti Pharma.

Find out more about how you can short Acasti Pharma stock.

Acasti Pharma share dividends

We're not expecting Acasti Pharma to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.

Have Acasti Pharma's shares ever split?

Acasti Pharma's shares were split on a 1:10 basis on 15 October 2015. So if you had owned 10 shares the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Acasti Pharma shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Acasti Pharma shares which in turn could have impacted Acasti Pharma's share price.

Acasti Pharma share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Acasti Pharma's shares have ranged in value from as little as $0.17 up to $3.08. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Acasti Pharma's is 1.2223. This would suggest that Acasti Pharma's shares are a little bit more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively-speaking, a slightly higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).

Acasti Pharma overview

Acasti Pharma Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the research, development, and commercialization of prescription drugs for the treatment of cardiovascular diseases. Its lead product candidate is CaPre, an omega-3 phospholipid therapeutic that is in Phase III clinical trial to treat patients with hypertriglyceridemia; and TRILOGY that is in Phase III to evaluate the safety and efficacy of CaPre in patients with sHTG. The company was incorporated in 2002 and is headquartered in Laval, Canada.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Acasti Pharma is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 8.641% of Acasti Pharma shares are held by insiders and 1.779% by institutions.

• How many people work for Acasti Pharma?

  Latest data suggests 32 work at Acasti Pharma.

• When does the fiscal year end for Acasti Pharma?

  Acasti Pharma's fiscal year ends in March.

• Where is Acasti Pharma based?

  Acasti Pharma's address is: 545, Promenade du Centropolis, Laval, QC, Canada, H7T 0A3

• What is Acasti Pharma's ISIN number?

  Acasti Pharma's international securities identification number is: CA00430K4028

• What is Acasti Pharma's CUSIP number?

  Acasti Pharma's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 00430K105