Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) Stock Price Today & Analysis
VRTX
Valuation
Market cap$119.21B
Price-to-sales ratio9.93
Price-to-book value6.39
Price-earnings ratio30.20
Return on Equity22.00%
Return on Sales0.38%
Return on Assets0.16%
PEG ratioN/A
Earnings Per Share
Earnings Per Share$15.46
Income Statement
Average volume1,616,752
EBITDA$4.66B
1 year high (52w)$519.68
1 year low (52w)$362.50
Dividend
Dividend yield0.00%
Solvency
Debt-to-equity ratioN/A
About Vertex Pharmaceuticals
Vertex is a global biotechnology company that invests in scientific innovation to create transformative medicines for people with serious diseases. The company has multiple approved medicines that treat the underlying cause of cystic fibrosis (CF) — a rare, life-threatening genetic disease — and has several ongoing clinical and research programs in CF. Beyond CF, Vertex has a robust pipeline of investigational small molecule medicines in other serious diseases where it has deep insight into causal human biology, including pain, alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and APOL1-mediated kidney diseases.
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