AARD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Aardvark Therapeutics | NASDAQ:AARD)

Aardvark Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing novel, small-molecule therapeutics to activate innate homeostatic pathways for the treatment of metabolic diseases. It is focused on on developing selective compounds, targeting Bitter Taste Receptors (TAS2Rs) for hunger-associated conditions. Its product candidate, ARD-101, is an oral gut-restricted small-molecule agonist of certain TAS2Rs expressed in the gut lumen for which have initiated a Phase 3 clinical trial for hyperphagia associated with PWS.

Aardvark Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol AARD.

As of March 13, 2026, AARD stock price declined to $5.09 with 212,303 million shares trading.

AARD has a beta of 1.95, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. AARD has a correlation of 0.07 to the broad based SPY ETF.

AARD has a market cap of $110.83 million. This is considered a Micro Cap stock.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that AARD belongs to (by Net Assets): VTI, VXF, IWM, VTWO, IBB.

AARD has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -51.4% while the SPY ETF gained +21.4%. AARD has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -64.7% and -59.2%, respectively, while the SPY returned -2.6% and -3.5%, respectively.

AARD support price is $4.92 and resistance is $5.60 (based on 1 day standard deviation move). This means that using the most recent 20 day stock volatility and applying a one standard deviation move around the stock's closing price, stastically there is a 67% probability that AARD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.