Insider Selling: Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRX) Director Sells 62,590 Shares of Stock

by · The Markets Daily

Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMRX – Get Free Report) Director Gautam Patel sold 62,590 shares of the firm’s stock in a transaction dated Wednesday, January 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $8.01, for a total transaction of $501,345.90. Following the sale, the director now owns 1,968,886 shares of the company’s stock, valued at approximately $15,770,776.86. This represents a 3.08 % decrease in their ownership of the stock. The transaction was disclosed in a filing with the SEC, which is available through this hyperlink.

Gautam Patel also recently made the following trade(s):

  • On Thursday, January 2nd, Gautam Patel sold 17,410 shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals stock. The shares were sold at an average price of $8.01, for a total transaction of $139,454.10.

Amneal Pharmaceuticals Trading Down 1.1 %

Shares of AMRX opened at $7.97 on Friday. The firm has a fifty day simple moving average of $8.22 and a two-hundred day simple moving average of $8.04. The firm has a market cap of $2.47 billion, a PE ratio of -11.72 and a beta of 1.10. Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc. has a 1-year low of $5.01 and a 1-year high of $9.48.

Institutional Trading of Amneal Pharmaceuticals

A number of hedge funds have recently bought and sold shares of AMRX. Barclays PLC boosted its position in Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 134.1% in the third quarter. Barclays PLC now owns 296,384 shares of the company’s stock worth $2,466,000 after purchasing an additional 169,756 shares during the last quarter. State Street Corp lifted its stake in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 3.8% in the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 3,514,721 shares of the company’s stock worth $29,242,000 after purchasing an additional 127,753 shares during the period. Bank of New York Mellon Corp boosted its holdings in shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 20.7% in the second quarter. Bank of New York Mellon Corp now owns 751,403 shares of the company’s stock worth $4,771,000 after buying an additional 128,772 shares during the last quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC grew its position in Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 11.1% during the third quarter. Geode Capital Management LLC now owns 3,786,671 shares of the company’s stock valued at $31,511,000 after buying an additional 378,136 shares during the period. Finally, Acadian Asset Management LLC increased its holdings in Amneal Pharmaceuticals by 701.8% during the second quarter. Acadian Asset Management LLC now owns 811,853 shares of the company’s stock valued at $5,148,000 after buying an additional 710,598 shares during the last quarter. Hedge funds and other institutional investors own 31.82% of the company’s stock.

Analysts Set New Price Targets

A number of brokerages recently weighed in on AMRX. Piper Sandler boosted their price objective on shares of Amneal Pharmaceuticals from $9.00 to $11.00 and gave the stock an “overweight” rating in a report on Monday, November 11th. Truist Financial boosted their price target on Amneal Pharmaceuticals from $10.00 to $12.00 and gave the stock a “buy” rating in a research note on Wednesday, October 2nd. Finally, StockNews.com cut Amneal Pharmaceuticals from a “strong-buy” rating to a “buy” rating in a research report on Thursday, December 19th. One investment analyst has rated the stock with a hold rating and five have assigned a buy rating to the company. According to MarketBeat, the company has an average rating of “Moderate Buy” and an average target price of $10.00.

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Amneal Pharmaceuticals Company Profile

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Amneal Pharmaceuticals, Inc, together with its subsidiaries, develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes generics, injectables, biosimilars, and specialty branded pharmaceutical products worldwide. The company operates through three segments: Generics, Specialty, and AvKARE. The Generics segment offers immediate and extended release oral solid, powder, liquid, sterile injectable, nasal spray, inhalation and respiratory, biosimilar, ophthalmic, film, transdermal patch, and topical products.

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