Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

VRTX stock score: 65/100

$524.52 · +1.92% · Scored Oct 21, 2026

Technical
66
Fundamental
63
News
57

The reading

Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) scores 65 out of 100, which reads neutral, higher than 93% of Healthcare stocks and 88% of the 4,166 US stocks we score.

The composite is technicals and fundamentals weighted equally: technicals read 66, fundamentals 63.

Among the fundamentals, Earnings Growth (Annual) at 100 and Revenue Quality (Quarterly) at 100 score highest, while Fair Value at 0 weighs the most against it.

On the daily chart, trend-following indicators average 64 and contrarian oscillators 45.

News sentiment is neutral at 57; it is shown, not counted in the composite.

Since Jul 24, 2026 the composite has ranged from 59 to 76, and it is down 11 points over the period.

What’s driving the score

The strongest and weakest of the scorers that count toward VRTX’s composite. Each returns 0–100, higher is more bullish — including metrics where low is good, like P/E.

Fundamental

63

Pulling it up

  • Earnings Growth (Annual)100

    Annual earnings growth tracks year-over-year profit expansion.

  • Revenue Quality (Quarterly)100

    Revenue Quality (Quarterly) evaluates recent revenue performance using trailing 12-month data from quarterly reports.

  • Operating Margins98

    Operating margins measure profitability after operating expenses.

Holding it back

  • Fair Value0

    Fair value score synthesizes multiple valuation methods (DCF, P/E, P/B, P/S) to estimate intrinsic worth.

  • Price to Sales Ratio11

    Price-to-Sales ratio compares market capitalization to annual revenue.

  • Price to Book Ratio18

    Price-to-Book ratio compares market value to book value.

41 weighted scorers.

Technical · daily

62

Pulling it up

  • Parabolic SAR (PSAR)100

    Parabolic SAR (Stop and Reverse) provides trailing stop levels that follow price trends.

  • SMA 50 Cross Up100

    SMA 50 Cross Up detects when faster averages cross above the 50-period SMA.

  • Stochastic (14)89

    Stochastic Oscillator (14-period) compares the current price to its range over 14 periods.

Holding it back

  • TRIX5

    TRIX is a momentum oscillator that filters out short-term noise by triple-smoothing price data.

  • Bollinger Bands (20)18

    Bollinger Bands (20-period) plot standard deviations above and below a moving average.

  • Williams %R (7)22

    Williams %R (7-period) places the close within the last 7 periods' high-low range.

61 weighted scorers; 4 had no data today and are left out rather than counted as zero.

News · shown, not counted

Global News
57

Technical score by timeframe

ChartScoreWeight
Hourly621
Daily623
Weekly682
Monthly702
Quarterly712

Composite score, last 90 days

05010065Jul 24, 2026Oct 21, 2026Jul 24, 2026: 76Jul 25, 2026: 75Jul 26, 2026: 75Jul 27, 2026: 75Jul 28, 2026: 76Jul 29, 2026: 75Jul 30, 2026: 74Jul 31, 2026: 75Aug 2, 2026: 60Aug 3, 2026: 61Aug 4, 2026: 62Aug 5, 2026: 63Aug 6, 2026: 62Aug 7, 2026: 66Aug 8, 2026: 66Aug 9, 2026: 66Aug 10, 2026: 68Aug 11, 2026: 67Aug 12, 2026: 67Aug 13, 2026: 66Aug 14, 2026: 64Aug 15, 2026: 65Aug 16, 2026: 65Aug 17, 2026: 66Aug 18, 2026: 67Aug 19, 2026: 67Aug 20, 2026: 67Aug 22, 2026: 66Aug 23, 2026: 66Aug 24, 2026: 66Aug 25, 2026: 66Aug 26, 2026: 66Aug 27, 2026: 66Aug 28, 2026: 65Aug 29, 2026: 65Aug 30, 2026: 65Aug 31, 2026: 66Sep 1, 2026: 66Sep 2, 2026: 67Sep 3, 2026: 67Sep 4, 2026: 66Sep 5, 2026: 65Sep 6, 2026: 65Sep 7, 2026: 65Sep 8, 2026: 64Sep 9, 2026: 69Sep 10, 2026: 62Sep 11, 2026: 63Sep 12, 2026: 63Sep 13, 2026: 63Sep 14, 2026: 64Sep 15, 2026: 63Sep 16, 2026: 63Sep 17, 2026: 63Sep 18, 2026: 62Sep 19, 2026: 62Sep 20, 2026: 62Sep 21, 2026: 63Sep 22, 2026: 64Sep 23, 2026: 66Sep 24, 2026: 65Sep 25, 2026: 66Sep 26, 2026: 65Sep 27, 2026: 65Sep 28, 2026: 65Sep 29, 2026: 65Sep 30, 2026: 64Oct 1, 2026: 62Oct 2, 2026: 61Oct 3, 2026: 61Oct 4, 2026: 61Oct 5, 2026: 61Oct 6, 2026: 61Oct 7, 2026: 62Oct 8, 2026: 61Oct 9, 2026: 62Oct 10, 2026: 62Oct 11, 2026: 62Oct 12, 2026: 62Oct 13, 2026: 59Oct 14, 2026: 61Oct 15, 2026: 63Oct 16, 2026: 62Oct 17, 2026: 62Oct 18, 2026: 62Oct 19, 2026: 61Oct 20, 2026: 63Oct 21, 2026: 65
Show the daily numbers
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Key facts

Market cap
$132.9B
Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Biotechnology
Beta
0.28
Risk grade (1–10)
6
Next earnings
Nov 2, 2026

Biotechnology peers

CompanyMarket capScore
MRNA Moderna$98.1B51
REGN Regeneron Pharmaceuticals$82.9B65
ARGX argenx SE$56.0B66
ONC BeOne Medicines AG$44.0B67
RVMD Revolution Medicines$41.6B46
RPRX Royalty Pharma$35.9B60

Questions

What is VRTX's stock score today?

VRTX scores 65/100 (Neutral) as of Oct 21, 2026: technical 66, fundamental 63, and news sentiment 57, which is shown but not counted. Scores are recomputed every night.

Is VRTX a buy?

The score is not a buy or sell recommendation. A 65 says the technical and fundamental signals we measure lean neutral today, relative to every other stock scored the same way. Use the breakdown above to see why, and treat it as a starting point for your own research.

How is the VRTX score calculated?

102 weighted scorers feed it today: 41 fundamental, scored against Healthcare ranges, and 61 technical on the daily chart, with 5 timeframes blended into the technical total. Every scorer returns 0–100; missing data is left out, never counted as zero.

Scores are information, not investment advice. Computed from Yahoo Finance, Finnhub and Alpha Vantage data; technical indicators via TA-Lib. Past scores do not predict future returns.