Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: VRTX) started the day on Wednesday, with a price decrease of -3.38% at $434.82, before settling in for the price of $450.03 at the close. Taking a more long-term approach, VRTX posted a 52-week range of $377.85-$519.88.
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The Healthcare Sector giants’ yearly sales growth during the last 5-year period was 22.39%. Nevertheless, stock’s Earnings Per Share (EPS) this year is 4182.49%. This publicly-traded company’s shares outstanding now amounts to $256.97 million, simultaneously with a float of $256.33 million. The organization now has a market capitalization sitting at $111.78 billion. At the time of writing, stock’s 50-day Moving Average stood at $490.83, while the 200-day Moving Average is $471.10.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (VRTX) Ownership Facts and Figures
Now let’s turn our focus to how large-scale investors are working with this stock of the Biotechnology Industry. Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc’s current insider ownership accounts for 0.29%, in contrast to 93.24% institutional ownership. According to the most recent insider trade that took place on May 02 ’25, this organization’s Director sold 400 shares at the rate of 505.86, making the entire transaction reach 202,344 in total value, affecting insider ownership by 4,831.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (VRTX) Earnings and Revenue Records
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc’s EPS increase for this current 12-month fiscal period is 4182.49% and is forecasted to reach 20.89 in the upcoming year.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: VRTX) Trading Performance Indicators
Let’s observe the current performance indicators for Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (VRTX). It’s Quick Ratio in the last reported quarter now stands at 2.29. The Stock has managed to achieve an average true range (ATR) of 17.68. Another valuable indicator worth pondering is a publicly-traded company’s price to sales ratio for trailing twelve months, which is currently 10.12.
In the same vein, VRTX’s Diluted EPS (Earnings per Share) trailing twelve months is recorded -3.92, a figure that is expected to reach 4.30 in the next quarter, and analysts are predicting that it will be 20.89 at the market close of one year from today.
Technical Analysis of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (VRTX)
If we take a close look at the recent performances of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: VRTX), its last 5-days Average volume was 3.35 million that shows progress from its year to date volume of 1.63 million. During the previous 9 days, stock’s Stochastic %D was recorded 31.16% While, its Average True Range was 19.15.
Raw Stochastic average of Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc (VRTX) in the period of the previous 100 days is set at 40.17%, which indicates a major rise in contrast to 7.63% during the last 2-weeks. If we go through the volatility metrics of the stock, In the past 14-days, Company’s historic volatility was 49.33% that was higher than 35.38% volatility it exhibited in the past 100-days period.
