AKBA — what changed in the latest 10-Q
A section-by-section comparison of AKBA's newest periodic SEC filing (10-K/10-Q) against the prior same-form filing: paragraphs added and removed per section, with verbatim excerpts. Purely a deterministic text diff — no similarity scores, no directional read, not investment advice.
Comparing 10-Q · 2026-08-05 vs the prior 10-Q · 2026-05-07
| Section | Outcome | Added | Removed | Minor | Unchanged |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MD&A | Text added/removed | +56 | −33 | ~32 | 57 |
| Market risk (Item 3) | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 1 |
| Controls & procedures | Text added/removed | +4 | −2 | 0 | 0 |
| Legal proceedings | Text added/removed | 0 | 0 | ~1 | 1 |
| Risk factors | Some risk factors updated | +139 | −172 | ~110 | 384 |
| Other information | Text added/removed | +3 | −2 | 0 | 0 |
Counts are paragraphs; added/removed means text added or removed vs the prior filing — no direction or judgement implied.
Representative excerpts
Up to 5 excerpts of about 300 characters per section, quoted verbatim from the two SEC filings.
MD&A
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
Vafseo® (vadadustat) is an orally administered medicine that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or the FDA, in March 2024 for the treatment of anemia due to CKD in adult patients on dialysis for at least three months. Vafseo is the only oral hypoxia inducible factor, or HIF, base…
2026, we announced the initiation of a Phase 2 basket study to evaluate ebribafusp in IgA Nephropathy, or IgAN, C3 Glomerulopathy, or C3G, and Lupus Nephritis, or LN.
Cost of product and other revenue for a newly launched product does not include the full cost of manufacturing until the initial pre-launch inventory is depleted and additional inventory is manufactured and sold. Until we received regulatory approval for Vafseo in the U.S., we recorded costs incurre…
Change in fair value of warrant liability relates to the change in fair value of our warrant liability related to a warrant agreement with Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSp, an affiliate of Kreos Capital VII (UK) Limited, or Kreos. See Note 3, Fair
Value Measurements, and Note 7, Indebtedness, in the accompanying notes to the unaudited condensed consolidated financial statements included in Part I, Item 1 of this Form 10-Q for further information on the warrant liability.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
Vafseo® (vadadustat) is an orally administered medicine that was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or the FDA, in March 2024 for the treatment of anemia due to CKD in adult patients on dialysis for at least three months. The current U.S. market opportunity for the treatment of anemi…
We had exclusive rights under a series of patents and patent applications to commercialize Auryxia in the U.S. that protected us from generic drug competition until March 20, 2025. Following LoE, since March 2025, our AG Distributor has been selling an authorized generic version of Auryxia in the U.…
Cost of product and other revenue for a newly launched product does not include the full cost of manufacturing until the initial pre-launch inventory is depleted and additional inventory is manufactured and sold. Until we received regulatory
approval for Vafseo in the U.S., we recorded costs incurred to manufacture the U.S. pre-launch inventory, such as raw materials, drug substance and drug product conversion costs as research and development, or R&D, expense.
Change in fair value of warrant liability relates to the change in fair value of our warrant liability related to a warrant agreement with Kreos Capital VII Aggregator SCSp, an affiliate of Kreos Capital VII (UK) Limited, or Kreos. See Note 3, Fair Value Measurements, and Note 7, Indebtedness, in th…
Controls & procedures
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
Management’s Evaluation of our Disclosure Controls and Procedures
We maintain disclosure controls and procedures that are designed to provide reasonable assurance that information required to be disclosed by us in the reports that we file or submit under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act, is (i) recorded, processed, summarized an…
As required by Rules 13a-15 and 15d-15 under the Exchange Act, our management, with the participation of our principal executive officer and principal financial officer, carried out an evaluation of our disclosure controls and procedures as of June 30, 2026. Based upon their evaluation, our principa…
There have been no changes in our internal control over financial reporting (as defined by Rule 13a-15(f) or 15d-15(f) under the Exchange Act) during the period covered by this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal co…
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references to “Akebia,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” "our Company" and similar references refer to Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. and, where appropriate, its consolidated subsidiaries. On December 12, 2…
AURYXIA®, AKEBIA Therapeutics®, Vafseo® and their associated logos are trademarks of Akebia and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks, trade names and service marks appearing in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, trademarks, trad…
Risk factors
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
On March 27, 2024, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approved our new drug application, or NDA, for vadadustat under the trade name Vafseo for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, or CKD, in adults who have been receiving dialysis for at least three months. However, we…
Additionally, in March 2026, Teva Pharmaceuticals Ltd., or Teva, received approval for its Abbreviated New Drug Application, or ANDA, for a generic version of Auryxia. As a result of Teva's entry into the market, we have experienced, and we expect to continue to experience, a significant reduction i…
•the extent that we, or our collaboration partners, are able to obtain and maintain market acceptance of Auryxia, the authorized generic version of Auryxia, Vafseo and any of our other product candidate that may be approved, including those that may be in-licensed or acquired;
•the size of any market for our approved products or any product candidates that may be approved, and the extent to which we or our collaboration partners are able to obtain and maintain adequate market share in those markets;
In July 2024, we entered into a Termination and Settlement Agreement with CSL Vifor, or the Vifor Termination Agreement. Pursuant to the Vifor Termination Agreement, we agreed, among other things, to terminate, effective immediately, the Second Amended and Restated License Agreement that we entered …
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
On March 27, 2024, the United States, or U.S., Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, approved our new drug application, or NDA, for vadadustat under the trade name Vafseo for the treatment of anemia due to chronic kidney disease, or CKD, in adults who have been receiving dialysis for at least three …
obtain the approval of Vafseo, and the commercialization of Vafseo was delayed due to the receipt of a complete response letter, or CRL, from the FDA in March 2022 regarding our NDA, and Vafseo was approved for a narrower indication than we initially pursued, which had and could continue to have an …
•obtaining and maintaining market acceptance of Auryxia, Vafseo and any other product candidate, including those that may be in-licensed or acquired;
•the size of any market in which Auryxia, Vafseo and any other product or product candidate, including those that may be in-licensed or acquired, receives approval and obtaining adequate market share in those markets;
countries in the Medice Territory is delayed or their sales are lower than anticipated, we may not receive the revenue that we expect from Medice on the timing anticipated, or at all.
Other information
Text added vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-08-05
From time to time, the Company's directors and officers (as defined in Rule 16a-1(f) under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the Exchange Act), engage in open-market transactions with respect to Company securities, including to satisfy tax withholding obligations when equity awards…
Transactions in Company securities by directors and officers are required to be made in accordance with the Company’s insider trading policy, which requires that the transactions be in accordance with applicable U.S. federal securities laws that prohibit trading while in possession of material nonpu…
None of the Company's directors or officers adopted or terminated a Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement or a non-Rule 10b5-1 trading arrangement (as each term is defined in Item 408(c) of Regulation S-K) during the quarterly period covered by this report.
Text removed vs the prior filing · source: 10-Q · 2026-05-07
In this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q, unless otherwise stated or the context otherwise requires, references to “Akebia,” “we,” “us,” “our,” “the Company,” "our Company" and similar references refer to Akebia Therapeutics, Inc. and, where appropriate, its consolidated subsidiaries. On December 12, 2…
AURYXIA®, AKEBIA Therapeutics®, Vafseo® and their associated logos are trademarks of Akebia and/or its affiliates. All other trademarks, trade names and service marks appearing in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q are the property of their respective owners. Solely for convenience, trademarks, trad…
How to read Risk Factors (Item 1A) in a 10-Q
A 10-Q risk-factor section usually takes one of three forms; this page classifies it as one of:
- Pointer — the filer states there have been no material changes and points back to the annual 10-K risk factors; there is no own risk text to compare this quarter.
- Partial update — the filer carves out specific updated risks ("except as set forth below"); the excerpts show exactly what is new this quarter.
- Restated in full — the quarter carries the complete risk-factor text. When the prior quarter was only a pointer there is no prior full text to diff against, so the page flags the section as restated instead.
This describes the filing structure only — it is never a judgement on whether risk went up or down.
Source: text-level diff of the two SEC EDGAR filings · deterministic (no AI-generated content) · for reference only · not investment advice