PRISM Mid-Day Movers: Weight Loss and Pet Care are Today’s Leaders.

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: VKTX) is up today, surging to 28.47% to $38.6814 after reaching an intraday high of $41.1299, with 27.70 million shares traded—more than 12 times its 2.29 million-share average. The rally followed positive maintenance-study results for VK2735, Viking’s investigational GLP-1/GIP obesity drug: patients retained up to 97% of prior weight loss on every-other-week dosing and up to 90% on monthly dosing, versus 61% for placebo, while gastrointestinal adverse-event rates were comparable with placebo.

Jaguar Health, Inc. (NASDAQ: JAGX) jumped 24.75% to $3.3307 after reaching an intraday high of $3.34, with 214,863 shares traded—more than seven times its 29,056-share average volume. The move followed FDA fee waivers for the company’s crofelemer-based products: Napo Pharmaceuticals received a fiscal-2027 PDUFA fee waiver for Mytesi, while Jaguar received a Center for Veterinary Medicine fee waiver for Canalevia-CA1, reducing near-term regulatory costs as the company targets a mid-2027 NDA submission for crofelemer powder in microvillus inclusion disease.

Other Notable Movers:

5E Advanced Materials Inc.  (FEAM) up 19%

Butterfly Networks (BFLY) up 17%

HUB Security (HUBC) down -34%