Illumina Inc. (ILMN): Today's Featured Health Care Winner
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) pushed the Health Care sector higher today making it today's featured health care winner. The sector as a whole closed the day up 0.7%. By the end of trading, Illumina rose $1.17 (2.3%) to $51.69 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.1 million shares of Illumina exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 1.8 million shares. The stock ranged in a price between $50.40-$52 after having opened the day at $50.55 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $50.52. Other companies within the Health Care sector that increased today were:
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Illumina, Inc. develops, manufactures, and markets life science tools and integrated systems for the analysis of genetic variation and biological function in North America, Europe, Latin America, the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East, and South Africa. Illumina has a market cap of $6.18 billion and is part of the drugs industry. The company has a P/E ratio of 71.5, above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 65.7% year to date as of the close of trading on Tuesday. Currently there are nine analysts that rate Illumina a buy, one analyst rates it a sell, and six rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Illumina as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its revenue growth, increase in net income and largely solid financial position with reasonable debt levels by most measures. However, as a counter to these strengths, we also find weaknesses including disappointing return on equity, premium valuation and weak operating cash flow.
- You can view the full Illumina Ratings Report.
On the negative front,
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Arrhythmia Research Technology
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), down 9.1%,
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), down 8.8%, were all laggards within the health care sector with
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