VRTX

NASD Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
Oct 17, 2026 · 1:22 PM ET EOD Market Closed

$499.74 ↑ +0.00 (+0.00%) Trading Up from the previous close of $499.74, $12.47 below the day’s high of $512.21

YTD change
+10.23%
vs 20-day SMA
-2.13%
vs 200-day SMA
+5.06%

Price ranges

Previous day
$497.49 $512.21
open $511.06 close $499.74
-$11.32 (-2.22%)
Today
$497.49 $512.21
$499.74
Past week
$484.08 $517.68
from $503.25 now $499.74
-$3.51 (-0.70%)
Past month
$484.08 $529.89
from $516.34 now $499.74
-$16.60 (-3.21%)
This year
$412.27 $560.25
from $453.36 now $499.74
+$46.38 (+10.23%)

Price & Performance

+58.54 (+13.27%) / 6M

$412.46$464.55$516.65$568.74Apr 17Jul 20Oct 16

Signals & Sentiment

Momentum, market sentiment, and recent alerts

Neutral
  • The stock is 10.8% away from all-time highs of $560.25
  • VRTX is up 10% since the beginning of the year
  • VRTX is up 22% over the past 12 months
  • VRTX is down 3% over the past 1 month
  • 2% of all VRTX investors are betting against VRTX

VRTX reads neutral: price sits above one of the two key moving averages, the 12-month move is +19.9%.

Financial Strength

Earnings, valuation, and balance sheet

Earnings

Profitable Yes
EPS $4.73
Earnings momentum +0.7% Quarterly EPS growth
Quarterly change +0.7%

Valuation

P/E ratio 29.03
Enterprise value $123.9B
Beta 0.17

Balance sheet & scale

Income$4.4M
Revenue$12.7B
Cash$7.9B
Debt$2.0M
Income / Debt 2.23×

Company & Peers

Company profile and competitor comparison

Company profile

ExchangeNASD
Sector Manufacturing
Sub Sector Chemical Manufacturing
Market cap $126.7B

Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a global biotechnology company, which engages in the business of discovering, developing, manufacturing, and commercializing small molecule drugs for patients with serious diseases. The firm focuses on development and commercializing therapies for the treatment of cystic fibrosis, infectious diseases including viral infections such as influenza and bacterial infections, autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, cancer, inflammatory bowel disease and neurological disorders including pain and multiple sclerosis. The company was founded by Joshua S. Boger in 1989 and is headquartered in Boston, MA.

Competitor comparison

TickerCompany PriceChange
LLY Eli Lilly and Company $1,257.03 +0.43%
JNJ Johnson & Johnson $255.56 +0.90%
ABBV AbbVie, Inc. $285.42 +0.71%
MRK Merck & Co., Inc. $145.95 +0.52%
RHHVF Roche Holding Ltd $457.35 +0.07%

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