Celgene Corporation (CELG): Today's Featured Health Care Laggard
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Celgene Corporation, a biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, and commercializes various therapies to treat cancer and immune-inflammatory related diseases primarily in the United States and Europe. Celgene Corporation has a market cap of $31.03 billion and is part of the drugs industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 20.4, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 10.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Thursday. Currently there are 21 analysts that rate Celgene Corporation a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Celgene Corporation as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures, notable return on equity, reasonable valuation levels and increase in stock price during the past year. Although no company is perfect, currently we do not see any significant weaknesses which are likely to detract from the generally positive outlook.
- You can view the full Celgene Ratings Report.
On the positive front,
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), up 20.9%,
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), up 16.1%, were all gainers within the health care sector with
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) being today's featured health care sector leader.
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