Roivant Sciences Ltd.
ROIV
| Last price | 41.48 USD |
|---|---|
| Change | +18.75% |
| Intraday range | 10.65% |
| Volume vs baseline | 15.9× |
| Sigma move | 7.9 σ |
| Rank in past 100 days | #1 |
| Move started | 2026-09-08 13:30opening bell |
Roivant +19% in a single session, with the stock tracking an all-time high — yet the readout was not Roivant's own. The 8-K it filed before the bell points at PHocus, a trial run by its subsidiary Pulmovant: mosliciguat came back positive in pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease.
MechanismRoivant is a holding platform that parks each drug candidate inside its own subsidiary. The asset sits at Pulmovant, and the only thing a public investor can actually buy is the parent's single line of stock, so a subsidiary's mid-stage readout is absorbed whole by the parent — which is why the move gapped premarket and was priced at the opening bell. Note what the document is: an Item 7.01 voluntary disclosure. The press release travels as an exhibit, and the filed text itself carries no efficacy figures and no formal endpoint definitions. So this paragraph explains only why the news can move the price and prints no clinical number at all: if you cannot click through to a figure from this card, we do not print it.
This attribution rests on a first-party source — the issuer's own filing or announcement — and the timestamps line up.
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- First-partyYahoo FinanceROIV chart API (1d + 1h)