How Lowering Cholesterol Helped This Biotech Stock To Pop [Investor's Business Daily]
Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (ESPR)
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Related news Esperion Therapeutics ( ESPR ) popped Monday after a regimen of its drug, bempedoic acid and a medicine sold by Merck ( MRK ) proved successful in cutting high cholesterol. In afternoon trading on the stock market today , Esperion stock jumped 5.2%, near 51.60. Shares approached a four-month record in high volume . Merck was off marginally to 68.97. Meanwhile, shares of biotech firms got a broad 1.2% boost. The biotech tested a combination of bempedoic acid and ezetimibe. Ezetimibe is the drug name for Merck's Zetia, a cholesterol-reducing medicine. The regimen cut high cholesterol by 35% in patients already taking maximum doses of statins at 12 weeks. Comparatively, patients treated with bempedoic acid alone and ezetimibe alone experienced reductions of 20% and 24%, respectively, Esperion said in a news release. Patients who received the placebo had reductions of 3%. "We continued to be impressed with the safety and (effectiveness) of bempedoic acid and reiterated our s
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- Esperion to Report First Quarter 2024 Financial Results on May 7 [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
- Esperion to Report First Quarter 2024 Financial Results on May 7GlobeNewswire
- Esperion Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ESPR) had its "buy" rating re-affirmed by analysts at Needham & Company LLC. They now have a $8.00 price target on the stock.MarketBeat
- Esperion Presents Important New Data from CLEAR Outcomes at ACC.24 Highlighting Value of NEXLETOL® (bempedoic acid) Tablets in Diverse Populations Including Women, Hispanics/Latinx and Patients with Obesity [Yahoo! Finance]Yahoo! Finance
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- 2/27/24 - Beat
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- 4/11/24 - Form DEF
- 4/11/24 - Form ARS
- 3/15/24 - Form 4
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