Onyx Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ONXX): Today's Featured Drugs Winner

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Onyx Pharmaceuticals (ONXX) pushed the Drugs industry higher today making it today's featured drugs winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Onyx Pharmaceuticals rose $1.86 (2.3%) to $82.10 on average volume. Throughout the day, 1.5 million shares of Onyx Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.2 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $79.93-$83.16 after having opened the day at $79.98 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $80.24. Other companies within the Drugs industry that increased today were: YM Biosciences (YMI), up 76.7%, Idera Pharmaceuticals (IDRA), up 35.3%, AspenBio Pharma (APPY), up 30.1%, and ARCA biopharma (ABIO), up 24.3%.

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Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, engages in the development and commercialization of therapies that target the molecular mechanisms that cause cancer in the United States and internationally. Onyx Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $5.18 billion and is part of the health care sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 66.6, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 75.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 12 analysts that rate Onyx Pharmaceuticals a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and two rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Onyx Pharmaceuticals as a hold. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and compelling growth in net income. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that we feel that the company's cash flow from its operations has been weak overall.

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On the negative front, Acura Pharmaceuticals (ACUR), down 15.2%, MEI Pharma (MEIP), down 10.2%, Lifevantage Corporation (LFVN), down 9.4%, and Opexa Therapeutics (OPXA), down 9.3%, were all laggards within the drugs industry with Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) being today's drugs industry laggard.

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