Market unmoved again despite more positive data from Esperion

24 May 2018

Positive trial results don’t appear to have boosted Esperion Therapeutics (Nasdaq: ESPR) in the way the Michigan, USA-based lipid specialist might have hoped.

Shares are largely static ahead of the opening bell in New York, after the firm announced positive top-line results from the third of five Phase III studies testing the efficacy and safety of bempedoic acid as a treatment for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD).

The firm’s stock took a battering earlier in the year, despite the firm announcing positive Phase III data for the therapy, as some analysts remained unconvinced by the safety and efficacy signals.

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