Viking Therapeutics, Inc. offers promising advances in obesity and liver diseases, despite a recent stock drop over GLP-1 market concerns. Click for my VKTX update.
Viking Therapeutics VKTX announced that it has started the phase II VENTURE-Oral Dosing study to evaluate the safety and efficacy of the oral version of its investigational obesity drug VK2735.
Management attributed this lowered guidance to the slowed sales growth of its tirzepatide products in the fourth quarter — diabetes drug Mounjaro added $3.5 billion, while obesity drug Zepbound ...
Popular obesity stocks fell on Tuesday after pharma giant Eli Lilly LLY lowered its sales guidance for full-year 2024 and announced disappointing preliminary fourth-quarter sales numbers.