Its discovery platform identifies neural circuits causally linked to disease and targets them for therapeutic modulation, aiming to improve efficacy, safety, tolerability, and ease of use. The company was founded by leaders in psychiatry and neuroscience research to address the lack of circuit-specific pharmacotherapies. Its product candidate, ML-007C-MA, is a fixed-dose combination of an M1/M4 muscarinic agonist and a peripherally acting anticholinergic, being developed for schizophrenia and Alzheimer's disease psychosis, designed to activate central receptors while mitigating peripheral side effects.
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Below, you can see that analysts are estimating a 12-month price target range of $13.00 - $52.00 with an average of $38.00
Recent Ratings for MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT)
The two main factors that we consider when analyzing past performance is overall return and volatility
Using these two metrics, we can determine if this stock gave its investors enough return for the risk that they took on by owning it. This is measured by the sharpe ratio, which has been used as a primary measure of risk/reward trade-off for almost 60 years.
This ratio can be interpreted as the amount of return an investor has received for the amount of risk that they took on by owning the stock over that timeframe.
MapLight Therapeutics (MPLT) sharpe ratio over the past 5 years is -0.3610 which is considered to be above average compared to the peer average of -0.4335
