ACXP Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Acurx Pharmaceuticals | NASDAQ:ACXP)

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 July 16, 2026, ACXP stock price declined to $1.59 with 89,602 million shares trading.

ACXP has a beta of -2.65, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. ACXP has a correlation of 0.04 to the broad based SPY ETF.

ACXP has a market cap of $6.83 million. This is considered a Sub-Micro Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, ACXP traded as high as $176.40 and as low as $1.33.

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 return of -81.7%, while the SPY ETF gained +21.9%. In the last 3 month period, ACXP fell short of the market, returning -48.7%, while SPY returned +7.5%. However, in the most recent 2 weeks ACXP has outperformed the stock market by returning +3.9%, while SPY returned +0.7%.

ACXP support price is $1.65 and resistance is $1.85 (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.