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What VRTX's price assumes
Vertex Pharmaceuticals trades at 30.8× earnings against 31.5× for the median Biotechnology name, cheaper than its own group.
30.8
Trailing P/E · Biotechnology median 31.5 · cheaper than the typical name in its group
- Price / sales
- 9.37
Price / sales · as of 2026-Q1
- Free cash flow yield
- 3.3%
Free cash flow yield · Biotechnology median 2.4%
- Growth the price implies
- +11%
Growth the price implies · The price pays for +11% free cash flow growth a year for a decade; the business has delivered −0.71% a year over the last three.
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- Price / book2026-Q1
- 5.91
- Healthcare median P/E362 names
- 29.9
- Biotechnology median P/E158 names
- 31.5
- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- $3.80B
- Market capitalisation
- $114.6B
- 3-year revenue growth
- +9.8%
- 3-year free cash flow growth
- −0.71%
| Method | Per share |
|---|---|
| Its own P/E history, lower quartile | $417.85 |
| Its own P/E history, median | $474.43 |
| Its own P/E history, upper quartile | $637.41 |
| 52-week range | $376.62 – $558.12 |
| Today | $528.93 |
Multiples from SEC filings and end-of-day closes; implied growth from a reverse discounted cash flow. Group medians across the names Ryufin tracks.
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