Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ARNA): Today's Featured Drugs Laggard

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Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) pushed the Drugs industry lower today making it today's featured Drugs laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.2%. By the end of trading, Arena Pharmaceuticals fell 53 cents (-5.7%) to $8.77 on light volume. Throughout the day, 9.3 million shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 17.8 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $8.75-$9.24 after having opened the day at $9.24 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.30. Other companies within the Drugs industry that declined today were: Horizon Pharma (HZNP), down 24%, Aoxing Pharmaceutical Company (AXN), down 10%, Biosante Pharmaceuticals (BPAX), down 9.2%, and Sinovac Biotech (SVA), down 8.7%.

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Arena Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, engages in discovering, developing, and commercializing oral drugs that target G protein-coupled receptors in the therapeutic areas of cardiovascular, central nervous system, inflammatory, and metabolic diseases. Arena Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $2.01 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 397.3% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Arena Pharmaceuticals a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Arena Pharmaceuticals as a sell. Among the areas we feel are negative, one of the most important has been poor profit margins.

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On the positive front, Cormedix (CRMD), up 25%, AEterna Zentaris (AEZS), up 23.1%, Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI), up 17.8%, and Codexis (CDXS), up 15.4%, were all gainers within the drugs industry with Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) being today's featured drugs industry leader.

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