Healthcare stocks advanced 0.9% on Wall Street on Tuesday morning.
More broadly, the Dow Jones Industrial Average climbed 0.4%, the Nasdaq was up 0.3% and the S&P 500 rose 0.4%.
Some of the biggest gainers among healthcare stocks include:
- Avanir Pharmaceuticals Inc (AVNR): AVNR stock is up 13.0% today and up 26.4% in the last month.
- Biogen Idec Inc (BIIB): BIIB stock is up 7.8%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has increased.
- Ariad Pharmaceuticals (ARIA): ARIA stock is up 6.2% today and up 25.2% in the last month.
- Achillion Pharmaceuticals (ACHN): ACHN stock is up 6.4% today.
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc (LGND): LGND stock is up 5.6% today.
- Bluebird Bio Inc (BLUE): BLUE stock is up 4.0% today.
- Acadia Pharmaceuticals Inc (ACAD): ACAD stock is up 3.9% today.
- Isis Pharmaceuticals (ISIS): ISIS stock is up 4.7% today.
- NPS Pharmaceuticals (NPSP): NPSP stock is up 4.1% today and up 22.6% in the last month.
- Horizon Pharma Inc (HZNP): HZNP stock is up 3.0% today.
Some of the biggest losers among healthcare stocks include:
- Theravance (THRX): THRX stock is down 2.9%, marking the fourth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Mannkind Corp (MNKD): MNKD stock is down 0.7%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Novartis Ag (NVS): NVS stock is down 1.2% today.
- Sanofi-Aventis Sa (SNY): SNY stock is down 1.0% today.
- Astrazeneca Plc (AZN): AZN stock is down 0.9% today.
- Fresenius Medical Care Corp (FMS): FMS stock is down 0.8% today.
- Kindred Healthcare (KND): KND stock is down 1.0%, marking the fifth consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Brookdale Senior Living Inc (BKD): BKD stock is down 0.7% today.
- Qiagen N.V. (QGEN): QGEN stock is down 0.4%, marking the third consecutive day the stock has decreased.
- Greatbatch (GB): GB stock is down 0.9% 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.
