Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX): 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 up 0.1%. By the end of trading, Vertex Pharmaceuticals fell 80 cents (-1.5%) to $53.87 on light volume. Throughout the day, 1.1 million shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals exchanged hands as compared to its average daily volume of 3.1 million shares. The stock ranged in price between $53.57-$54.66 after having opened the day at $54.51 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $54.67. Other companies within the Drugs industry that declined today were:
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated engages in discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing small molecule drugs for the treatment of serious diseases worldwide. Vertex Pharmaceuticals has a market cap of $10.72 billion and is part of the
sector. The company has a P/E ratio of 27.6, above the average drugs industry P/E ratio of 26.6 and above the S&P 500 P/E ratio of 17.7. Shares are up 64.5% year to date as of the close of trading on Wednesday. Currently there are 13 analysts that rate Vertex Pharmaceuticals a buy, no analysts rate it a sell, and four rate it a hold.
TheStreet Ratings rates Vertex Pharmaceuticals as a
. The company's strengths can be seen in multiple areas, such as its robust revenue growth, notable return on equity and increase in stock price during the past year. However, as a counter to these strengths, we find that the growth in the company's earnings per share has not been good.
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