VRTX - Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
| Previous Close | 176.37 |
| Open | 176.47 |
| Bid | 0.00 x 900 |
| Ask | 0.00 x 900 |
| Day's Range | 175.60 - 177.93 |
| 52 Week Range | 151.80 - 195.81 |
| Volume | 519,829 |
| Avg. Volume | 1,166,893 |
| Market Cap | 45.118B |
| Beta (3Y Monthly) | 1.18 |
| PE Ratio (TTM) | 21.23 |
| EPS (TTM) | 8.30 |
| Earnings Date | Jul 23, 2019 - Jul 29, 2019 |
| Forward Dividend & Yield | N/A (N/A) |
| Ex-Dividend Date | N/A |
| 1y Target Est | 209.58 |
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Another win for the market on Thursday, with the S&P 500 ending the session up 0.23% to finish the session at just a hair below 3,000. The volume grew once again on the third-straight daily gain, though it is still below average.Source: Shutterstock CVS Health (NYSE:CVS) and UnitedHealth Group (NYSE:UNH) ranked among the session's biggest winners, up 4.7% and 5.5%, respectively, after President Trump decided to not enact new rules that would stymie rebates on pharmaceutical purchases. At the other end of the spectrum, Merck (NYSE:MRK) led the losers on Thursday, as the President's move worried some that it could end up being pharmaceutical companies that bore the brunt of any cost-control initiatives. Merck shares ended the day down by 4.5%. * 10 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 and Beyond Headed into the final trading day of the week, though, it's HollyFrontier (NYSE:HFC), Activision Blizzard (NASDAQ:ATVI) and Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) that merit the closest looks from traders. Here's why, and what to look for.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX)Vertex Pharmaceuticals is still technically in a long-term uptrend, guided higher by a rising support line that extends all the way back to late-2017. Although it has ebbed and flowed along the way, it has made higher highs and higher lows for some time now.The flavor of the advance changed in a fundamental way this year, however, and although it has been more erratic than not, current and prospective owners may want to note that the repeated bearish swings are taking a cumulative toll on the broad uptrend. Click to Enlarge * Chief among the changes in the timbre of the major rally is the fact that for the first time in several quarters, VRTX has logged a streak of lower highs. They're plotted in yellow on both stock charts. * The long-term support line is marked with a dashed blue line on both charts. * It's easy to look past in the wide swings we've seen since the beginning of 2018, but the most recent round of weakness has pulled the purple 50-day moving average line below the white 200-day line for the first time since mid-2018 (although that instance proved to be a great entry point). HollyFrontier (HFC)Late last month, HollyFrontier shares were able to punch through a long-standing falling resistance line, and proceed to test their 100-day moving average line, marked in gray on both stock charts. That test ultimately failed, sending HFC lower again. Shares only needed to take a small step back before renewing a much-needed running start. The second effort made a big dent on Thursday. * 7 Marijuana Stocks With Critical Levels to Watch Click to Enlarge * The resistance line in question is marked in yellow on both stock charts. In retrospect, May's steep selloff served as the capitulation the chart needed. * Although it faltered the first time when attempting to push past the moving average line (highlighted), Thursday's second attempt worked nicely. * While the volume behind the runup since May's bottom is on reasonably healthy volume, the pace hasn't been healthy. HollyFrontier isn't yet stochastically overbought, but it's getting to that point fast. Activision Blizzard (ATVI)Finally, within nothing more than a quick glance, Activision Blizzard shares merely look stuck in a trading range. And, that may well be the case. A deeper look at some of the more subtle clues, however, suggests the bulls may be working on a bigger-picture recovery of last year's oversized pullback. The inflection point is within sight too, with a massive amount of room to run if and when the last hurdle area is cleared. Click to Enlarge * The subtle hints are not just the bullish crosses of most of the moving average lines on the daily chart. Since the end of last month, the 20-, 50- and 100-day moving average lines are acting as support. * The inflection point, or final potential resistance, is the 200-day moving average line at $51, plotted in white on both stock charts. In the meantime, there's horizontal resistance around $48.80. * The weekly chart puts the potential rebound in perspective. It also better identifies the fact that we've already seen a higher low.As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can learn more about him at his website jamesbrumley.com, or follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley. More From InvestorPlace * 2 Toxic Pot Stocks You Should Avoid * 10 Stocks to Buy for Less Than Book * 7 Marijuana Stocks With Critical Levels to Watch * The 10 Best Dividend Stocks to Buy for the Rest of 2019 and Beyond The post 3 Big Stock Charts for Friday: HollyFrontier, Activision Blizzard and Vertex Pharmaceuticals appeared first on InvestorPlace.
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- Business Wire•26 days ago
FDA Approves SYMDEKO® (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) to Treat the Underlying Cause of CF in Children Ages 6-11 Years with Certain Mutations in the CFTR Gene
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX) today announced the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved SYMDEKO® (tezacaftor/ivacaftor and ivacaftor) for use in children with cystic fibrosis ages 6 through 11 years who have two copies of the F508del-CFTR mutation or who have at least one mutation in the cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that is responsive to SYMDEKO. It was previously approved by the FDA for use in patients with cystic fibrosis 12 years and older with two copies of the F508del mutation or one copy of a responsive mutation in the U.S. An additional dosage strength of SYMDEKO tablets is now available (tezacaftor 50 mg/ivacaftor 75 mg and ivacaftor 75 mg) in connection with this approval.
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- GuruFocus.com•27 days ago
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRTX) CEO & President Jeffrey M Leiden Sold $9.8 million of Shares
CEO & President of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) Jeffrey M Leiden sold 56,030 shares of VRTX on 06/18/2019 at an average price of $175.39 a share.
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- InvestorPlace•last month
7 Top-Rated Biotech Stocks to Invest In Today
Tech stocks are tumbling around like they're in a washing machine. Between the trade wars and varying economic numbers, chip stock have been all over the place. While the Nasdaq Biotech Index (INDEXNASDAQ:NBI) is up 7% year to date, it was a bumpy ride through the latter part of 2018.This year, the broad biotech sector has been buffeted along with other broad market indicators, considering that the weaker-than-expected U.S. economy and the continued trade war with China have slapped a question mark over that growth market.Also, U.S. healthcare seems to be frozen in place for now, so "silver bullet" medicines aren't getting the attention they deserve. And the administrations crackdown on funding and researchers at the National Institutes of Health are also challenging since most major drug discoveries start at NIH and are then pulled into R&D efforts at biotech and pharma companies.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading Tips * 7 High-Quality Cheap Stocks to Buy With $10 But following are seven healthy biotech stocks to buy now. They get top scores in my Portfolio Grader for their fundamentals, earnings and momentum. These seven biotechs are both big and small, the one thing they have in common is growth now and in their future. Biotech Stocks to Buy: Repligen (RGEN)Repligen Corp (NASDAQ:RGEN) has had quite a good year, up 65% in the past 12 months, and 42% year to date. If a biotech or a Big Pharma are the bakeries that sell the finished goods, RGEN is the company that sells the ingredients and tools to the bakeries.It has three divisions: Chromotography (the separation of a mixture by passing it through a suspension), Filtration and OEM Products (usually proteins used for purification and cell growth products).These "ingredients" are certainly more complex than they are for a bakery, but they're just as fundamental to building drugs and manufacturing them with quality and consistency on a large scale.With a $3.6 billion market cap, RGEN is a good sized player with exposure across the industry, so it's a leveraged played on the fundamental growth in the biotech and pharmaceutical sector. And that's a solid investment moving forward. Vertex Pharma (VRTX)Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (NASDAQ:VRTX) is a big-cap pharmaceutical firm based out Boston, MA. It currently has three approved drugs to treat cystic fibrosis (CF) and has a number of drugs in the pipeline to treat other auto-immune diseases.Earlier this month it moved into the genetic therapy side of the business, expanding its relationship with CRISPR Therapeutics (CSPR) and buying gene therapy company Exonics Therapeutics.Exonics is involved in developing a gene therapy for Duchenne's muscular dystrophy (DMD). DMD is the most common form of the disease. It afflicts about 1 in 3,500 males and is usually recognized between the ages of 3 and 6 years of age. By age 10, most patients are wheelchair bound.Creating a gene therapy to resolve this rare disease would be massive. And given VRTX's history with CF, it has a very good shot. * 7 U.S. Stocks to Buy With Limited Trade War Exposure It's a relative outperformer in the big cap biotech space -- it sports a $43 billion market cap -- and is still a good value. Recro Pharma (REPH)Recro Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:REPH) is a small cap -- $206 million market cap -- that was launched in 2007. Its focus is on non-opioid, non-addictive pain and analgesics.It focuses its efforts on products for hospitals and ambulatory care facilities and works with generics to develop more effective delivery systems and more targeted markets.For example, its top-performing drug is meloxicam, an analgesic for post-operative pain that is administered intravenously. It also has an intranasal formulation of dexmedetomidine (Dex) for post-operative pain. Its third pipeline drug is fadolmidine and is similar to Dex but doesn't cross the blood-brain barrier.The stock is up 31% year to date and up 75% for the past 12 months. There's a good chance that its drugs could be fast-tracked considering the opioid crisis, which would get them to market even faster. Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Corp (ARWR)Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals Corp (NASDAQ:ARWR) is a gene therapy biotech with a twist. Instead of using modified genes to eradicate a disease, it silences genes that are causing problems.Either way, this is a very hot sector and ARWR is one of the shining stars in the biotech heaven. It has a $2 billion market cap and has been around since 1989, which is means it has been through two or three waves of biotech booms and busts.The stock is on fire right now, up 108% year to date and 134% in the past year. Part of that is the news last October is signed a deal to license one of its drugs that targets hepatitis B to Janssen Pharmaceuticals. * 10 Stocks to Buy That Wall Street Expects to Soar for the Rest of 2019 It's pricey, but it has a lot of big new ahead of it. Veracyte (VCYT)Veracyte Inc (NASDAQ:VCYT) is also on the genetic side of the biotech sector. But it doesn't develop novel drugs, it produces genetic testing for various types of diseases.This is another new sector that is growing quickly because of the processing power now available to sequence genes and see how they tick.Right now, VCYT has genetic tests for thyroid cancer, lung cancer and a lung disease called idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. The latter has been very hard to test for in the past, so VCYT testing is a big step forward.With a $1 billion market cap, VCYT is establishing a name for itself and already has products in the market, which is a very attractive business model compared to drug companies that will spend years and billions of dollars hoping a drug will get to the marketplace.Up and staggering 214% in the past year and 121% year to date, VCYT is just getting started. And could be a serious takeover candidate. Affimed (AFMD)Affimed NV (NASDAQ:AFMD) is a Germany-based biotech that is focused on immunotherapy work. This line of work is built on the premise that you can find a way for each individual to help combat disease using their own immune system.This is highly complex and is in earlier stages than gene therapy but it has enormous potential, especially in treating various cancers.AFMD has a proprietary ROCK(R) platform for recognizing and attacking certain types of cancers. It cancelled phase 1 studies in October of AFM11 to focus on its innate cell engager AFM24.Immuno-oncology is more than just working with a patient's immune system. It also means individualized treatment solutions for each patient. That would be a massive shift in the way disease care is viewed. And it's getting very close. * 7 Dividend Stocks That Are Worth Your Money Also, being a German company, it would have access to the European markets as well as the U.S. markets due to its partnership with Genentech. But it's a small cap with some work to do, so be patient. Incyte Corp (INCY)Incyte Corp (NASDAQ:INCY) is a Delaware-based biotech that is another good-sized player with a market cap of $16 billion.It has one drug that has been in the marketplace for years now. JAKAFI is a treatment for a rare form of bone marrow cancer and it also has a use as a treatment for host-done issues with bone marrow transplants.When you have drugs for rare diseases you have less competition and you can also charge more since there is few to no competitors but the market is also very small. But this does help start generating revenue for a company that can then use that cash to develop more drugs without burning through cash waiting for a big breakthrough.INCY has cooperative agreements with Merck (MRK) and Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY) using a new drug to work with their immuno-oncology drugs that are already on the market. This could be a big opportunity since these two Big Pharma firms could help get this combination through regulatory hurdles.The stock is up 21% year to date but only 4% in the past year. Its partnerships with leading Big Pharma firms is a strategic play on broader industry exposure.Louis Navellier is a renowned growth investor. He is the editor of five investing newsletters: Blue Chip Growth, Emerging Growth, Ultimate Growth, Family Trust and Platinum Growth. His most popular service, Blue Chip Growth, has a track record of beating the market 3:1 over the last 14 years. He uses a combination of quantitative and fundamental analysis to identify market-beating stocks. Mr. Navellier has made his proven formula accessible to investors via his free, online stock rating tool, PortfolioGrader.com. Louis Navellier may hold some of the aforementioned securities in one or more of his newsletters. 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3 Big Stock Charts for Friday: Symantec, Vertex Pharmaceuticals and Nektar Therapeutics
It was a victory for stocks on Thursday, though not a decisive one. The 0.41% gain logged by the S&P 500 keeps it above some important technical support, but one rough day could still put the broad market into something of a tailspin.Walt Disney (NYSE:DIS) shares did more than their fair share of the heavy lifting, up 4.4% largely after Morgan Stanley predicted its planned streaming product, Disney+, would be even more successful than most investors have given it credit for. Restoration Hardware Holdings (NYSE:RH), also just called RH, logged one of the biggest wins on Thursday though, rallying more than 15% after topping its fiscal first quarter estimates.At the other end of the spectrum, Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) fell 3.1% after MoffettNathanson analyst Michael Nathanson suggested the recent strength made it a good time to take some profits.InvestorPlace - Stock Market News, Stock Advice & Trading TipsNone make for great trading options headed into the weekend though. Rather, it's the stock charts of Nektar Therapeutics (NASDAQ:NKTR), Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) and Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC) that present themselves as the top prospects. Here's why. Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX)Vertex Pharmaceuticals is no stranger to big swings in both directions. In fact, big swings are the norm. These aren't just sizeable, trade-worthy movements though. They're actually pretty predictable in terms of size and scope. The turns are taking shape pretty much where they should, even if VRTX is incapable of moving anywhere in a straight line. * 10 Stocks to Buy That Wall Street Expects to Soar for the Rest of 2019 The stock's back at a well-established technical floor now, suggesting a rebound move is nigh. This revisit of a familiar floor does look a little bit different though, in that the stock's struggled to push up and off of it. It may be a clue that the bears are just waiting to deal a proverbial death blow. Click to Enlarge • The range in question is plotted with white lines on both stock charts, tracing the major highs and lows going all the way back to 2017.• Bolstering the case for a bounce here is the fact that the stochastic indicator is into oversold territory. That's not a condition that's been allowed to last long for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, but…• …zooming out shows that VRTX has been hugging the floor in question since April. It should have rebounded by now. One or two rough days could break the support, perhaps unleashing a wave of pent-up selling. Nektar Therapeutics (NKTR)Nektar Therapeutics was beaten so badly last year that traders have been wary of stepping back into it now. But, to its credit, at least the bleeding has stopped. The few bulls still testing the waters have even established a technical floor since late last year.There's a much bigger method to the madness though. That is, the selling has been slowly but surely ground to a halt, and the would-be buyers are establishing a base from which to carry the stock higher again. While there's still much work to be done, that work is being done. Click to Enlarge • The floor in question is plotted in yellow on both stock charts, tagging all the key lows going back to late December.• Zooming out to the weekly chart we can see shares of NKTR have already started to poke through falling resistance lines.• The key to, and signal of, a fully established breakout thrust is the next move above the white 200-day moving average line at $40.86 and the weekly chart's Chaikin line moving back above the zero level. Symantec (SYMC)In late March Symantec was featured as a name that had been range-bound for several weeks, and of the effort to push above a well-established ceiling at the time failed, a retreat back to the lower boundary of that range was likely.SYMC did indeed punch through that ceiling, though it was a flawed break. With a gap left in the rearview mirror, shares started to peel back in May and eventually made their way back to the support portion of the range anyway. Since kissing that floor late last month though, the bulls appear to have regrouped and are ready to make the trip back to the ceiling again. Click to Enlarge • The range in question is between $17.50 and $23.60, marked with red and yellow lines on both stock charts.• The weekly chart also shows an oversold stochastic indicator, which more often than not does point where Symantec has moved to an unsustainable extreme.• Curiously, though shares have yet to make a solid upward move, the weekly chart's rising Chaikin line suggests there's a lot more buying interest than selling pressure in place right now.As of this writing, James Brumley did not hold a position in any of the aforementioned securities. You can learn more about James at his site, jamesbrumley.com, or follow him on Twitter, at @jbrumley. 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