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 0.8%. By the end of trading, Arena Pharmaceuticals fell 15 cents (-1.8%) to $8.19 on average volume. Throughout the day, 9.5 million shares of Arena Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 8.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $7.86-$8.25 after having opened the day at $8.20 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $8.34. Other companies within the Drugs industry that declined today were: Repros Therapeutics (RPRX), down 13.9%, DepoMed (DEPO), down 9.8%, Dynavax Technologies Corporation (DVAX), down 7.1%, and Cardiome Pharma Corporation (CRME), down 6.8%.

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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 $1.82 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are down 7% year to date as of the close of trading on Friday. Currently there are three 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. The area that we feel has been the company's primary weakness has been its meager revenue growth.

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On the positive front, Theravance (THRX), up 16.1%, MEI Pharma (MEIP), up 14.2%, Clovis Oncology (CLVS), up 12.1%, and Tesaro (TSRO), up 11.2%, were all gainers within the drugs industry with Abbott Laboratories (ABT) being today's featured drugs industry leader.

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