Notable 52-Week Highs and Lows of the Day 8/15: (ACHN) (GILD) (BITA) High; (BAA) (XIN) (EXXI) Low - InvestingChannel

Notable 52-Week Highs and Lows of the Day 8/15: (ACHN) (GILD) (BITA) High; (BAA) (XIN) (EXXI) Low

52-Week High:

  • Achillion Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ACHN) $10.20. Achillion Pharma ripping today after it announced interim results from an ongoing Phase 2 proxy study evaluating ACH-3102, Achillion’s second-generation NS5A inhibitor, in combination with sofosbuvir, without ribavirin, for eight weeks of treatment in patients with treatment-naïve genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection. Of the 12 patients treated, 100 percent (n=12/12) remained HCV RNA undetectable four weeks after completing therapy (SVR4). Based upon these results, 12 additional patients will begin treatment with six weeks of once daily ACH-3102 and sofosbuvir.

  • Gilead Sciences (Nasdaq: GILD) $99.40. Gilead