Acurx Pharmaceuticals (ACXP) closed at $1.14 on October 22, 2026, down 0.9% from the previous close, on volume of 25,952 shares (30-day average 86,220).
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Acurx Pharmaceuticals Inc is a late-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing a new class of small-molecule antibiotics for difficult-to-treat bacterial infections. Its approach is to develop antibiotic candidates with a Gram-positive selective spectrum (GPSS) that block the active site of the Gram-positive specific bacterial enzyme deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) polymerase IIIC (pol IIIC), inhibiting DNA replication and Gram-positive bacterial cell death. Its research and development pipeline includes antibiotic product candidates targeting Gram-positive bacteria, including Clostridioides difficile, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, and drug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae and B. anthracis. It operates in a single segment.
Acurx Pharmaceuticals trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol ACXP.
As of October 22, 2026, ACXP stock price declined to $1.14 with 25,952 million shares trading.
ACXP has a beta of -1.54, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ACXP has a correlation of 0.02 to the broad based SPY ETF.
ACXP has a market cap of $4.90 million. This is considered a Sub-Micro Cap stock.
In the last 3 years, ACXP traded as high as $114.00 and as low as $1.07.
The top ETF exchange traded funds that ACXP belongs to (by Net Assets): VXF.
ACXP has underperformed the market in the last year with a price return of -83.7% while the SPY ETF gained +14.9%. ACXP has also underperformed the stock market ETF in the last 3 month and 2 week periods returning -25.0% and -12.3%, respectively, while the SPY returned +2.3% and -1.7%, respectively.
ACXP support price is $1.10 and resistance is $1.20 (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 ACXP shares will trade within this expected range on the day.
