GALT Stock Summary and Trading Ideas (Galectin Therapeutics | NASDAQ:GALT)

Galectin Therapeutics Inc is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company. The company focuses on drug research and development to create new therapies for fibrotic disease, cancer, and selected other diseases. Its galectin-3 inhibitor is belapectin (GR-MD-02), which has been demonstrated in preclinical models to reverse liver fibrosis and cirrhosis.

Galectin Therapeutics trades on the NASDAQ stock market under the symbol GALT.

As of August 31, 2026, GALT stock price declined to $3.95 with 228,008 million shares trading.

GALT has a beta of -0.71, meaning it tends to be less sensitive to market movements. GALT has a correlation of 0.01 to the broad based SPY ETF.

GALT has a market cap of $398.36 million. This is considered a Small Cap stock.

In the last 3 years, GALT traded as high as $7.13 and as low as $.73.

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

GALT has underperformed the market in the last year with a return of -7.7%, while SPY returned +20.1%. This shows that you would have done better investing in the overall market (through SPY) over the last year than in GALT shares. However, GALT has outperformed the market in the last 3 month and 2 week periods, returning +56.7% and +12.5%, while SPY returned +1.6% and -0.7%, respectively. This indicates GALT has been having a stronger performance recently.

GALT support price is $3.81 and resistance is $4.23 (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 GALT shares will trade within this expected range on the day.