Vertex Pharmaceuticals VRTX Price / earnings
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Where this comes from
Calculated from Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s reported figures.
Based on the most recent quarter.
The official record: Vertex Pharmaceuticals’s 10-Q, filed May 5, 2026, on SEC EDGAR. View the filing →
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Questions, answered.
- What is Vertex Pharmaceuticals's price / earnings?
- Vertex Pharmaceuticals (VRTX) reported price / earnings of 26.1× in Q1 2026.
- What is the long-term trend for Vertex Pharmaceuticals's price / earnings?
- Over 2 years (2021 to 2023), Vertex Pharmaceuticals's price / earnings has grown at a 8.6% compound annual growth rate (CAGR), from 90.6× to 106.7×.
- What does price / earnings mean?
- How many dollars investors pay for each dollar of the company's annual profit.
- How do you interpret price / earnings?
- Lower can mean cheaper — or that the market expects earnings to fall. High multiples embed growth expectations. Meaningless when earnings are negative, so it is suppressed there.
- How does price / earnings compare across companies?
- Compare against the company's own history and sector peers, not across sectors with different growth and risk profiles.