Hot Stock: Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Shares Gain 43.4% (KERX)

Jan 28, 2013 (SmarTrend(R) Spotlight via COMTEX) -- Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX) is one of today's best performing low-priced stocks, up 43.4% to $4.92 on 8.0x average daily volume. Thus far today, Keryx Biopharmaceuticals has traded 14.1 million shares, vs. average volume of 1.8 million shares per day. The stock has outperformed the Dow (43.4% to the Dow's -0.1%) and outperformed the S&P 500 (43.4% to the S&P's -0.2%) during today's trading.

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:KERX) is currently priced 6.0% above its average consensus analyst price target of $4.62. Keryx Biopharmaceuticals shares have support at the 50-day moving average (MA) of $2.86 and additional support at the 200-day MA of $2.24.

In the past 52 weeks, shares of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals have traded between a low of $1.28 and a high of $5.55 and are now at $4.92, which is 284% above that low price. Over the past week, the 200-day moving average (MA) has gone up 1.8% while the 50-day MA has advanced 3.2%.

Keryx Biopharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company focused on the acquisition, development, and commercialization of novel pharmaceutical products for the treatment of life-threatening diseases, including diabetes and cancer. Keryx is developing KRX-101 (sulodexide), a novel first-in-class oral heparinold compound for the treatment of diabetic nephropathy.

SmarTrend recommended that subscribers consider buying shares of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals on April 24th, 2012 as our proprietary SmarTrend analytics indicated a new Uptrend was in progress when shares hit $1.83. Since that recommendation, shares of Keryx Biopharmaceuticals have risen 87.4%. We continue to monitor KERX for any potential shift so investors can protect gains and will alert SmarTrend subscribers immediately.

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