How to buy Akouos stock | $19.91

Akouos, Inc is a biotechnology business based in the US. Akouos shares (AKUS) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Akouos employs 54 staff and has a market cap (total outstanding shares value) of USD$699.7 million.

How to buy shares in Akouos

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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 Akouos. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: AKUS. 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 Akouos 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$19.91, 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 Akouos, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Akouos. 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.

Akouos share price

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Akouos shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-12-03.

Latest market close	USD$19.91
52-week range	USD$16.59 - USD$30.67
50-day moving average	USD$19.344
200-day moving average	USD$21.0765
Wall St. target price	USD$33
PE ratio	N/A
Dividend yield	N/A (0%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$-0.932

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Akouos price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $19.91 from 2020-12-09

1 week (2021-01-12)	9.10%
1 month (2020-12-18)	7.51%
3 months (2020-10-19)	1.69%
6 months (2020-07-17)	-5.73%

1 year (2020-01-16)	N/A
2 years (2019-01-16)	N/A
3 years (2018-01-16)	N/A
5 years (2016-01-16)	N/A

Akouos financials

Gross profit TTM	USD$0
Return on assets TTM	0%
Return on equity TTM	0%
Profit margin	0%
Book value	N/A
Market capitalisation	USD$699.7 million

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Akouos shares

There are currently 1.6 million Akouos shares held short by investors – that's known as Akouos's "short interest". This figure is 2.2% down from 1.6 million last month.

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

Akouos's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Akouos's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Akouos shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Akouos shares traded daily (recently around 90190.213010938). Akouos's SIR currently stands at 17.37. In other words for every 100,000 Akouos shares traded daily on the market, roughly 17370 shares are currently held short.

However Akouos's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Akouos shares, or, against the total number of tradable Akouos shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Akouos's short interest could be expressed as 0.05% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Akouos shares in existence, roughly 50 shares are currently held short) or 0.0604% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Akouos shares, roughly 60 shares are currently held short).

A SIR above 10% would generally be considered pretty high, pointing to a potentially pessimistic outlook for the share price and a discouraging interest in betting against Akouos.

Find out more about how you can short Akouos stock.

Akouos share dividends

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

Akouos overview

Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company, develops gene therapies to restore, improve, and preserve physiologic hearing for people worldwide. The company's precision genetic medicine platform incorporates a proprietary adeno-associated viral vector library and a novel delivery approach. Its lead product candidate, AK-OTOF, a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. Akouos has strategic partnerships with Massachusetts Eye and Ear and Lonza, Inc. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Akouos is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 3.405% of Akouos shares are held by insiders and 94.309% by institutions.

• How many people work for Akouos?

  Latest data suggests 54 work at Akouos.

• When does the fiscal year end for Akouos?

  Akouos's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Akouos based?

  Akouos's address is: 645 Summer Street, Boston, MA, United States, 02210

• What is Akouos's ISIN number?

  Akouos's international securities identification number is: US00973J1016