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AKUS vs STOK

Side-by-side comparison of Akouos Inc. (AKUS) and Stoke Therapeutics Inc. (STOK): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • AKUS operates in Consumer Discretionary, while STOK operates in Health Care - the two are in different parts of the market.
  • STOK is the larger of the two at $1.83B, about 9.3x AKUS ($197.0M).
  • STOK has hit the wire 8 times in the past 4 weeks while AKUS has been quiet.
  • STOK has more recent analyst coverage (16 ratings vs 1 for AKUS).
MetricAKUSSTOK
Company
Akouos Inc.
Stoke Therapeutics Inc.
Price
$13.29+1.10%
$30.18+2.58%
Market cap
$197.0M
$1.83B
1M return
-
-8.42%
1Y return
-
+175.36%
Industry
Specialty Chemicals
Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2020
2019
News (4w)
0
8
Recent ratings
1
16
AKUS

Akouos Inc.

Akouos, Inc., a precision genetic medicine company, developing gene therapies to restore, improve, and preserve physiologic hearing for individuals. The company's precision genetic medicine platform incorporates a proprietary adeno-associated viral vector library and a novel delivery approach. Its lead product candidate is AK-OTOF, a gene therapy for the treatment of hearing loss due to mutations in the OTOF gene. The company is also developing AK-CLRN1 for the auditory manifestations of Usher syndrome 3A, or USH3A; and AK-antiVEGF for vestibular schwannoma. In addition, its precision genetic medicine platform addresses hearing loss related to genes needed for supporting cell function. Akouos, Inc. was incorporated in 2016 and is based in Boston, Massachusetts.

STOK

Stoke Therapeutics Inc.

Stoke Therapeutics, Inc., an early-stage biopharmaceutical company, develops novel antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) medicines to treat the underlying causes of severe genetic diseases in the United States. The company utilizes its proprietary ribonucleic acid therapeutics platform, Targeted Augmentation of Nuclear Gene Output (TANGO), to design ASOs to upregulate the expression of protein by individual genes in a patient. Its lead product candidate is STK-001 that is used to treat Dravet syndrome, a severe and progressive genetic epilepsy. The company was formerly known as ASOthera Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and changed its name to Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. in May 2016. Stoke Therapeutics, Inc. was incorporated in 2014 and is headquartered in Bedford, Massachusetts.