Sarepta Therapeutics

SRPT

Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRPT) is a medical research and drug development company with corporate offices and research facilities in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. Incorporated in 1980 as AntiVirals, shortly before going public the company changed its name from AntiVirals to AVI BioPharma soon with stock symbol AVII and in July 2012 changed name from AVI BioPharma to Sarepta Therapeutics and SRPT respectively. As of the end of 2019, the company has two approved drugs (see the Products section below).

Sarepta Therapeutics has been a target of short sellers for a while. The current short interest of 23.31% is roughly at the average of the last 12 months (21.83%).