Healthcare stocks advanced broadly 0.5% on Wall Street on Monday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 0.2%, the Nasdaq increased 0.3% and the S&P 500 pushed 0.2% higher.
Some of the biggest gainers among healthcare stocks include:
- Sarepta Therapeutics Inc (SRPT): SRPT stock is up 53.9% today and up 34.4% in the last month.
- Astrazeneca Plc (AZN): AZN stock is up 5.6% today.
- Impax Laboratories (IPXL): IPXL stock is up 5.6% today.
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc (ACAD): ACAD stock is up 2.4%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Endo Pharmaceuticals Holdings Inc (ENDP): ENDP stock is up 2.3% today.
- Centene Corp (CNC): CNC stock is up 2.2% today.
- NPS Pharmaceuticals (NPSP): NPSP stock is up 2.2% today.
- Auxilium Pharmaceuticals (AUXL): AUXL stock is up 2.0% today.
- Mylan Inc (MYL): MYL stock is up 2.0% today.
- Puma Biotechnology (PBYI): PBYI stock is up 1.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
Some of the biggest losers among healthcare stocks include:
- Acceleron Pharma Inc (XLRN): XLRN stock is down 1.6% today.
- Lannett Co Inc (LCI): LCI stock is down 0.9% today.
- Exact Sciences Corp (EXAS): EXAS stock is down 1.2% today.
- Opko Health Inc (OPK): OPK stock is down 0.6% today.
- Pdl Biopharma (PDLI): PDLI stock is down 1.0% today.
- Hms Holdings Corp (HMSY): HMSY stock is down 0.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Luxottica Group S.P.A. (LUX): LUX stock is down 0.5% today.
- Align Technology (ALGN): ALGN stock is down 0.7% today.
- Icon Plc (ICLR): ICLR stock is down 0.5% today.
- Boston Scientific Corp (BSX): BSX stock is down 0.4% today.
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Editor’s Note: Returns for the fastest-moving stocks listed here are based on share prices 20 minutes prior to publication of this story.
