Arena Pharmaceuticals Inc. (ARNA): Today's Featured Health Care Winner

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Arena Pharmaceuticals (ARNA) pushed the Health Care sector higher today making it today's featured health care winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.3%. By the end of trading, Arena Pharmaceuticals rose 91 cents (9.9%) to $10.11 on heavy volume. Throughout the day, 30.5 million shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.1 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $9.31-$10.14 after having opened the day at $9.32 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $9.20. Other companies within the Health Care sector that increased today were: Cell Therapeutics (CTIC), up 25.4%, Pacific Biosciences of California (PACB), up 17.8%, Theratechnologies (THER), up 15.8%, and Threshold Pharmaceuticals (THLD), up 14.3%.

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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 $1.96 billion and is part of the drugs industry. Shares are down 0.2% year to date as of the close of trading on Monday. Currently there are two analysts that rate Arena Pharmaceuticals a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and five rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates Arena Pharmaceuticals as a sell. The area that we feel has been the company's primary weakness has been its meager revenue growth.

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On the negative front, Medical Action Industries (MDCI), down 14.6%, CombiMatrix Corporation (CBMX), down 10.6%, Aoxing Pharmaceutical Company (AXN), down 10%, and Venaxis (APPY), down 9.6%, were all laggards within the health care sector with Edwards Life (EW) being today's health care sector laggard.

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