Nektar Therapeutics(NKTR)Earnings, Financials & Key Ratios

SAN FRANCISCO, June 26, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ: NKTR) today announced that, on June 19, 2026, the Organization and Compensation Committee of Nektar's Board of Directors granted non-qualified stock options to purchase an aggregate of 20,500 shares of its common stock and 3,900 restricted stock units (RSUs) to seven newly-hired employees under Nektar's 2025 Inducement Plan. Nektar's 2025 Inducement Plan was adopted by its Board of Directors on November 6, 2025 and is used exclusively for the grant of equity awards to individuals who were not previously an employee or non-employee director of Nektar (or following a bona fide period of non-employment), as an inducement material to such individual's entering into employment with Nektar, pursuant to Nasdaq Listing Rule 5635(c)(4).

Robin sold 20,000 shares over two days for a transaction value of $1.22 million at a weighted average price of $60.75 per share. This sale represented 26.64% of his direct common stock holdings and reduced his direct position from 75,073 to 55,045 shares.

Big pharma's appetite for clinical-stage biotech is back. The pending acquisition of Apogee Therapeutics by AbbVie (NYSE: ABBV | ABBV Price Prediction), targeting an atopic dermatitis and immunology developer, has reignited a question every healthcare portfolio manager is asking: who will be next?