Amgen Inc (AMGN): Today's Featured Drugs Winner

Amgen was a winner within the drugs industry, rising $3.73 (3.8%) to $102.06 on average volume
By TheStreet Wire ,

Amgen

(

AMGN

) pushed the Drugs industry higher today making it today's featured drugs winner. The industry as a whole closed the day up 0.9%. By the end of trading, Amgen rose $3.73 (3.8%) to $102.06 on average volume. Throughout the day, 4,129,559 shares of Amgen exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3,731,100 shares. The stock ranged in a price between $98.02-$102.33 after having opened the day at $98.16 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $98.33. Other companies within the Drugs industry that increased today were:

Inovio Pharmaceuticals

(

INO

), up 24.6%,

China Pharma

(

CPHI

), up 14.9%,

Pharmacyclics Incorporated

(

PCYC

), up 12.0% and

Prosensa

(

RNA

), up 10.5%.

Amgen Inc., a biotechnology medicines company, engages in the discovery, development, manufacture, and marketing of human therapeutic products in the areas of supportive cancer care, inflammation, nephrology, and bone diseases primarily in the United States, Europe, and Canada. Amgen has a market cap of $73.6 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 14.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 9 analysts that rate Amgen a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.

TheStreet Ratings rates

Amgen

as a

buy

. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its solid stock price performance, impressive record of earnings per share growth, compelling growth in net income, revenue growth and notable return on equity. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had generally high debt management risk by most measures that we evaluated.

On the negative front,

Mast Therapeutics

(

MSTX

), down 34.9%,

GTx

(

GTXI

), down 25.2%,

Cardium Therapeutics

(

CXM

), down 10.3% and

Bacterin International Holdings

(

BONE

), down 8.7% , were all laggards within the drugs industry with

Actavis

(

ACT

) being today's drugs industry laggard.

For investors not wanting singular stock exposure, ETFs may be of interest. Investors who are bullish on the drugs industry could consider

SPDR S&P Pharmaceuticals ETF

(

XPH

) while those bearish on the drugs industry could consider

ProShares UltraShort Nasdaq Biotech

(

BIS

).

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