Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Stock Debt To Equity

VX1 Stock  EUR 441.80  3.80  0.87%   
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated fundamentals help investors to digest information that contributes to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' financial success or failures. It also enables traders to predict the movement of Vertex Stock. The fundamental analysis module provides a way to measure Vertex Pharmaceuticals' intrinsic value by examining its available economic and financial indicators, including the cash flow records, the balance sheet account changes, the income statement patterns, and various microeconomic indicators and financial ratios related to Vertex Pharmaceuticals stock.
  
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated Company Debt To Equity Analysis

Vertex Pharmaceuticals' Debt to Equity is calculated by dividing the Total Debt of a company by its Equity. If the debt exceeds equity of a company, then the creditors have more stakes in a firm than the stockholders. In other words, Debt to Equity ratio provides analysts with insights about composition of both equity and debt, and its influence on the valuation of the company.

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Current Vertex Pharmaceuticals Debt To Equity

    
  12.90 %  
Most of Vertex Pharmaceuticals' fundamental indicators, such as Debt To Equity, are part of a valuation analysis module that helps investors searching for stocks that are currently trading at higher or lower prices than their real value. If the real value is higher than the market price, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is considered to be undervalued, and we provide a buy recommendation. Otherwise, we render a sell signal.
High Debt to Equity ratio typically indicates that a firm has been borrowing aggressively to finance its growth and as a result may experience a burden of additional interest expense. This may reduce earnings or future growth. On the other hand a small D/E ratio may indicate that a company is not taking enough advantage from financial leverage. Debt to Equity ratio measures how the company is leveraging borrowing against the capital invested by the owners.
Competition

According to the company disclosure, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated has a Debt To Equity of 12.9%. This is 75.91% lower than that of the Healthcare sector and 33.37% lower than that of the Biotechnology industry. The debt to equity for all Germany stocks is 73.51% higher than that of the company.

Vertex Debt To Equity Peer Comparison

Stock peer comparison is one of the most widely used and accepted methods of equity analyses. It analyses Vertex Pharmaceuticals' direct or indirect competition against its Debt To Equity to detect undervalued stocks with similar characteristics or determine the stocks which would be a good addition to a portfolio. Peer analysis of Vertex Pharmaceuticals could also be used in its relative valuation, which is a method of valuing Vertex Pharmaceuticals by comparing valuation metrics of similar companies.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals is currently under evaluation in debt to equity category among its peers.

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About Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fundamental Analysis

The Macroaxis Fundamental Analysis modules help investors analyze Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated's financials across various querterly and yearly statements, indicators and fundamental ratios. We help investors to determine the real value of Vertex Pharmaceuticals using virtually all public information available. We use both quantitative as well as qualitative analysis to arrive at the intrinsic value of Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated based on its fundamental data. In general, a quantitative approach, as applied to this company, focuses on analyzing financial statements comparatively, whereas a qaualitative method uses data that is important to a company's growth but cannot be measured and presented in a numerical way.
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Vertex Pharmaceuticals financial ratios help investors to determine whether Vertex Stock is cheap or expensive when compared to a particular measure, such as profits or enterprise value. In other words, they help investors to determine the cost of investment in Vertex with respect to the benefits of owning Vertex Pharmaceuticals security.