Aethlon Medical (NASDAQ:AEMD) stock is rising higher on Wednesday despite a lack of news from the company.
The gains for AEMD stock today come as retail traders on social media boost the shares up higher. Several prominent stock trading accounts on Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) are highlighting the shares, which is putting extra attention on them.
Of course, those extra eyes on AEMD stock also come with heavy trading. As of this writing, more than 59 million shares of the stock have changed hands. To put that in perspective, the company’s daily average trading volume is only about 947,000 shares.
Now that we know why AEMD stock is soaring today, here’s what traders need to know about it.
AEMD Stock Details
- Aethlon Medical is developing immunotherapeutic technologies to battle infectious diseases and cancer.
- That includes augmenting the body’s natural defenses with its Aethlon Hemopurifier.
- This targets diseases that are often protected from the immune system and missed by traditional medication.
- The Aethlon Hemopurifier is currently undergoing clinical trials approved by the FDA.
- Aethlon Medical was founded in 1999 and is based out of San Diego, Calif.
- AEMD has raised a total of $30.1 million across 13 rounds of funding.
- Its most recent funding round brought in $12.43 million and took place on June 10, 2021.
- The company’s market capitalization is sitting at $80.932 million.
AEMD stock was up 40.3% as of Wednesday morning.
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