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30.1% Return Seen to Date on SmarTrend Nektar Therapeutics Call (NKTR)
[February 28, 2013]

30.1% Return Seen to Date on SmarTrend Nektar Therapeutics Call (NKTR)


Feb 28, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) -- SmarTrend identified an Uptrend for Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR) on December 11th, 2012 at $7.15. In approximately 3 months, Nektar Therapeutics has returned 30.07% as of today's recent price of $9.30.



Nektar Therapeutics share prices have moved between a 52-week high of $10.98 and a 52-week low of $5.65 and are now trading 65% above that low price at $9.30 per share. In the last five trading sessions, the 50-day moving average (MA) has climbed 1.7% while the 200-day MA has risen 0.4%.

Nektar Therapeutics (Nektar) is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a pipeline of drug candidates that utilize its PEGylation and polymer conjugate technology platforms, which are designed to improve the benefits of drugs for patients. Its product pipeline consists of drug candidates across a number of therapeutic areas, including oncology, pain, anti-infectives, anti-viral and immunology. Nektar's research and development activities involve small molecule drugs, peptides and other potential biologic drug candidates. Its drug candidates are designed to improve the pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics, half-life, bioavailability, metabolism or distribution of drugs and improve the overall benefits and use of a drug for the patient.


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