Galectin Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:GALT) price on Thursday, July 03, rose 0.46% above its previous day’s close as an upside momentum from buyers pushed the stock’s value to $2.18.
A look at the stock’s price movement, the close in the last trading session was $2.17, moving within a range at $2.125 and $2.245. The beta value (5-Year monthly) was 0.545. Turning to its 52-week performance, $3.90 and $0.73 were the 52-week high and 52-week low respectively. Overall, GALT moved 68.99% over the past month.
Galectin Therapeutics Inc’s market cap currently stands at around $137.97 million, with investors looking forward to this quarter’s earnings report slated for on 2025-May-15.
Turning to the stock’s technical picture we see that short term indicators suggest on average that GALT is a 100% Buy. On the other hand, the stock is on average a 50% Buy as suggested by medium term indicators while long term indicators are putting the stock in 50% Buy category.
GALT’s current price about 9.91% and 37.14% off the 20-day and 50-day simple moving averages respectively. The Relative Strength Index (RSI, 14) currently prints 56.30, while 7-day volatility ratio is 11.90% and 20.16% in the 30-day chart. Further, Galectin Therapeutics Inc (GALT) has a beta value of 0.78.
If we refocus on Galectin Therapeutics Inc (NASDAQ:GALT), historical trading data shows that trading volumes averaged 1.0 over the past 10 days and 583.22K over the past 3 months. The company’s latest data on shares outstanding shows there are 63.29 million shares.
The 31.40% of Galectin Therapeutics Inc’s shares are in the hands of company insiders while institutional holders own 15.75% of the company’s shares. Also important is the data on short interest which shows that short shares stood at 8.95 million on 2025-06-13, giving us a short ratio of 56.27. The data shows that as of 2025-06-13 short interest in Galectin Therapeutics Inc (GALT) stood at 2374.0 of shares outstanding, with shares short rising to 8.67 million registered in 2025-05-15. Current price change has pushed the stock -7.23% YTD, which shows the potential for further growth is there. It is this reason that could see investor optimism for the GALT stock continues to rise going into the next quarter.
