Hottest Healthcare Stocks Now – PBYI AUXL ISIS ALGN
by Portfolio Grader | May 21, 2014 2:15 pm
Healthcare stocks advanced broadly on Wall Street so far on Wednesday, with the sector seeing an overall increase of 0.7%.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average pushed 0.6% higher, the Nasdaq rose 0.6% and the S&P 500 climbed 0.6%.
Some of the biggest gainers among healthcare stocks include:
- Puma Biotechnology (PBYI[1]): PBYI stock is up 5.0% today.
- Auxilium Pharmaceuticals (AUXL[2]): AUXL stock is up 4.6%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Isis Pharmaceuticals (ISIS[3]): ISIS stock is up 3.1% today.
- Align Technology (ALGN[4]): ALGN stock is up 3.3% today.
- Alnylam Pharmaceuticals (ALNY[5]): ALNY stock is up 2.5% today.
- Celldex Therapeutics Inc (CLDX[6]): CLDX stock is up 3.3% today.
- Exact Sciences Corp (EXAS[7]): EXAS stock is up 2.7% today.
- Community Health Systems (CYH[8]): CYH stock is up 2.7% today.
- Astrazeneca Plc (AZN[9]): AZN stock is up 2.5% today.
- Mannkind Corp (MNKD[10]): MNKD stock is up 2.1%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has increased.
Some of the biggest losers among healthcare stocks include:
- Conmed Corp (CNMD[11]): CNMD stock is down 1.3%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Carefusion Corp (CFN[12]): CFN stock is down 1.2% today.
- Hms Holdings Corp (HMSY[13]): HMSY stock is down 0.9% today.
- Dr. Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd (RDY[14]): RDY stock is down 0.6% today.
- Abbott Laboratories (ABT[15]): ABT stock is down 0.4% today.
- Resmed Inc (RMD[16]): RMD stock is down 0.2% 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.
Endnotes:
- PBYI: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=PBYI
- AUXL: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AUXL
- ISIS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ISIS
- ALGN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ALGN
- ALNY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ALNY
- CLDX: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CLDX
- EXAS: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=EXAS
- CYH: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CYH
- AZN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=AZN
- MNKD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=MNKD
- CNMD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CNMD
- CFN: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=CFN
- HMSY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=HMSY
- RDY: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RDY
- ABT: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=ABT
- RMD: http://studio-5.financialcontent.com/investplace/quote?Symbol=RMD
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