Bristol-Myers Squibb Company (BMY): Today's Featured Drugs Laggard
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) pushed the Drugs industry lower today making it today's featured Drugs laggard. The industry as a whole closed the day down 0.6%. By the end of trading, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company fell $0.58 (-1.3%) to $44.61 on light volume. Throughout the day, 4,931,582 shares of Bristol-Myers Squibb Company exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 10,686,300 shares. The stock ranged in price between $44.51-$45.39 after having opened the day at $45.21 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $45.19. Other companies within the Drugs industry that declined today were:
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), down 35.9%,
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), down 18.9%,
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), down 15.6% and
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), down 12.2%.
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company, a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, licenses, manufactures, markets, distributes, and sells biopharmaceutical products that help patients prevail over serious diseases worldwide. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company has a market cap of $73.9 billion and is part of the health care sector. Shares are up 38.1% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are 6 analysts that rate Bristol-Myers Squibb Company a buy, 1 analyst rates it a sell, and 12 rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates
Bristol-Myers Squibb Company
as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its expanding profit margins, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures and increase in stock price during the past year. We feel these strengths outweigh the fact that the company has had sub par growth in net income.
- You can view the full Bristol-Myers Squibb Company Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 14.5%,
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), up 13.0%,
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), up 11.8% and
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), up 10.6% , were all gainers within the drugs industry with
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) being today's featured drugs industry leader.
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) while those bearish on the drugs industry could consider
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