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Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. (AKBA) Q1 2026 Earnings Call Transcript

Akebia Therapeutics (AKBA) came out with a quarterly loss of $0.03 per share versus the Zacks Consensus Estimate of a loss of $0.01. This compares to earnings of $0.03 per share a year ago.

Q1 2026 Vafseo® (vadadustat) net product revenues grew to $15.8 million ; Q1 2026 total net product revenues of $52.0 million Number of patients treated with Vafseo increased 60% in Q1 2026 compared to Q4 2025 Akebia hosted virtual R&D Day highlighting robust kidney disease pipeline, outlining clinical trial plans and timing of expected data catalysts Patient enrollment continues to progress in praliciguat Phase 2 clinical trial in focal segmental glomerulosclerosis (FSGS) Akebia to host conference call on May 7, 2026, at 8:00 a.m. EST CAMBRIDGE, Mass.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akebia Therapeutics®, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, granted 7 newly-hired employees options to purchase an aggregate of 208,800 shares of Akebia's common stock on April 30, 2026.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 04, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Akebia Therapeutics®, Inc. (Nasdaq: AKBA), a biopharmaceutical company with the purpose to better the lives of people impacted by kidney disease, today announced the publication of a post-hoc win statistics analysis of all-cause mortality and hospitalization from its global Phase 3 INNO2VATE program in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology (JASN), a leading, high-impact, peer-reviewed journal in nephrology.

Akebia to Host Conference Call on May 7 at 8:00 a.m. EDT CAMBRIDGE, Mass.
Akebia Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of therapeutics for patients with kidney diseases. The company's lead product investigational product candidate is vadadustat, an oral therapy, which is in Phase III development for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease (CKD) in dialysis-dependent and non-dialysis dependent adult patients. It also offers Auryxia, a ferric citrate that is used to control the serum phosphorus levels in adult patients with DD-CKD on dialysis; and the treatment of iron deficiency anemia in adult patients with CKD not on dialysis. Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. has collaboration agreements with Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. for the development and commercialization of vadadustat in the United States, the European Union, Russia, China, Australia, Canada, the Middle East, and other countries; and Mitsubishi Tanabe Pharma Corporation for the development and commercialization of vadadustat in Japan and other Asian countries, as well as research and license agreement with Janssen Pharmaceutica NV for the development and commercialization of hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase targeted compounds worldwide. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.