Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX): Price and Financial Metrics

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX): $418.01

0.69 (+0.17%)

POWR Rating

Component Grades

Momentum

C

Stability

B

Sentiment

Quality

B

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Industry: Biotech

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VRTX Price/Volume Stats

Current price $418.01 52-week high $448.40
Prev. close $417.32 52-week low $310.90
Day low $415.06 Volume 1,092,100
Day high $420.67 Avg. volume 1,321,226
50-day MA $422.69 Dividend yield N/A
200-day MA $378.00 Market Cap 107.98B

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VRTX POWR Grades

  • VRTX scores best on the Quality dimension, with a Quality rank ahead of 98.29% of US stocks.
  • VRTX's strongest trending metric is Growth; it's been moving up over the last 26 weeks.
  • VRTX's current lowest rank is in the Momentum metric (where it is better than 18.05% of US stocks).

VRTX Stock Summary

  • VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC's market capitalization of $105,833,060,501 is ahead of 97.69% of US-listed equities.
  • VRTX's one year PEG ratio, measuring expected growth in earnings next year relative to current common stock price is 462.74 -- higher than 92.72% of US-listed equities with positive expected earnings growth.
  • In terms of volatility of its share price, VRTX is more volatile than merely 8.24% of stocks we're observing.
  • Stocks with similar financial metrics, market capitalization, and price volatility to VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC are LRCX, AMAT, REGN, MU, and ANET.
  • VRTX's SEC filings can be seen here. And to visit VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC's official web site, go to www.vrtx.com.

VRTX Valuation Summary

  • In comparison to the median Healthcare stock, VRTX's price/sales ratio is 395.45% higher, now standing at 10.9.
  • Over the past 243 months, VRTX's price/sales ratio has gone up 3.

Below are key valuation metrics over time for VRTX.

Stock Date P/S P/B P/E EV/EBIT
VRTX 2023-12-29 10.9 6.3 30.2 21.7
VRTX 2023-12-28 10.9 6.4 30.4 21.8
VRTX 2023-12-27 10.9 6.4 30.3 21.8
VRTX 2023-12-26 10.9 6.4 30.3 21.7
VRTX 2023-12-22 10.8 6.3 30.1 21.6
VRTX 2023-12-21 10.7 6.3 29.8 21.3

VRTX Growth Metrics

    Its year over year revenue growth rate is now at 23.89%.
  • Its 2 year net cashflow from operations growth rate is now at 30.02%.
  • The year over year net income to common stockholders growth rate now stands at -11.26%.
Over the past 34 months, VRTX's revenue has gone up $4,111,207,000.

The table below shows VRTX's growth in key financial areas (numbers in millions of US dollars).

Date Revenue Operating Cash Flow Net Income to Common Stock
2022-12-31 8,930.7 4,129.9 3,322
2022-09-30 8,700.561 4,046.493 3,273.21
2022-06-30 8,350.425 4,018.212 3,194.638
2022-03-31 7,947.595 2,678.645 2,451.062
2021-12-31 7,574.4 2,643.5 2,342.1
2021-09-30 7,129.659 2,140.039 2,176.18

VRTX's Quality Factors

The “Quality” component of the POWR Ratings focuses on 31 different factors of a companies fundamentals and operational strength. Here are some key insights as we drill into the specifics of these quality attributes.
  • VRTX has a Quality Grade of B, ranking ahead of 86.88% of graded US stocks.
  • VRTX's asset turnover comes in at 0.564 -- ranking 66th of 681 Pharmaceutical Products stocks.
  • ORGO, MDWD, and CCXI are the stocks whose asset turnover ratios are most correlated with VRTX.

The table below shows VRTX's key quality metrics over time.

Period Asset Turnover Gross Margin ROIC
2021-06-30 0.564 0.879 0.725
2021-03-31 0.565 0.881 1.066
2020-12-31 0.589 0.881 1.053
2020-09-30 0.619 0.880 1.013
2020-06-30 0.618 0.877 0.796
2020-03-31 0.607 0.872 0.605

VRTX Price Target

For more insight on analysts targets of VRTX, see our VRTX price target page. And for a list of of all stocks sorted by upside potential based on analyst target price, see our Top Price Target page.

Average Price Target $258.59 Average Broker Recommendation 1.54 (Moderate Buy)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc. (VRTX) Company Bio


Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company based in Boston, Massachusetts. It was one of the first biotech firms to use an explicit strategy of rational drug design rather than combinatorial chemistry. It maintains headquarters in South Boston, Massachusetts, and three research facilities, in San Diego, California, and Milton Park, near Oxford, England. (Source:Wikipedia)


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Latest VRTX News From Around the Web

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VRTX Price Returns

1-mo -2.10%
3-mo 2.73%
6-mo 20.21%
1-year 33.91%
3-year 96.26%
5-year 127.24%
YTD 2.73%
2023 40.90%
2022 31.50%
2021 -7.08%
2020 7.94%
2019 32.13%

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