ACAD Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Acadia Pharmaceuticals | NASDAQ:ACAD)

Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on turning scientific promise to makes a difference for underserved neurological and rare disease communities around the world. It has two core franchises in neurological and rare diseases. Its neurological disease is anchored by the commercial product NUPLAZID (pimavanserin), which is the first and only drug approved by the U.S. (FDA) for the treatment of hallucinations and delusions associated with Parkinson's disease psychosis (PDP). Its rare disease is anchored by the commercial product DAYBUE, which is the first and only drug approved for the treatment of Rett syndrome. Its clinical-stage development efforts are focused on Alzheimer's disease psychosis, Lewy Body Dementia psychosis, and multiple other programs.

Acadia Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol ACAD.

As of July 31, 2026, ACAD stock price declined to $25.87 with 1,412,987 million shares trading.

ACAD has a beta of 1.03, meaning it tends to be more sensitive to market movements. ACAD has a correlation of 0.10 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ACAD has a market cap of $4.43 billion. This is considered a Mid Cap stock.

Last quarter Acadia Pharmaceuticals reported $268 million in Revenue and $.02 earnings per share. This fell short of revenue expectation by $-13 million and missed earnings estimates by -$.05.

In the last 3 years, ACAD traded as high as $32.59 and as low as $13.40.

The top ETF exchange traded funds that ACAD belongs to (by Net Assets): IJR, XBI, VTI, IWM, VB.

ACAD has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of +8.6%, while SPY returned +19.4%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in ACAD shares. However, ACAD has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +15.2% and +1.1%, while SPY returned +4.2% and +0.5%, respectively. This indicates ACAD has been having a stronger performance recently.

ACAD support price is $26.00 and resistance is $27.10 (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 ACAD shares will trade within this expected range on the day.