VRTX · Healthcare
What a holder would want to know before buying VRTX: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.
Today’s price is 25% above the lowest point of the past year and 9% below the highest.
Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 85% of days and more expensive on 15%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 98% of days.
7% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.
Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 42%; the longest took 2.1 years to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.
Now 9% below the Sep 2026 peak.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated · Healthcare · Biotechnology · a large company worth $129.29B
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated operates as a biotechnology company in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company offers transformative medicines for people with serious diseases with a focus on…
revenue profit
Sales of $12.00B in 2025, with $3.95B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.
Keeps about 35 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.
Generates more free cash in a year ($2.63B) than it owes in total ($1.98B).
You pay $30 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.
A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.
Pays no dividend.
32 analysts: 26 say buy, 5 hold, 1 sell. Their average 12-month target is $571.61 (range $350.00–$672.00).
Insiders made 0 purchases and 14 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.
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