Is Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc a growth stock? A data-driven read on its earnings momentum, price leadership, and demand, scored against every US stock from SEC filings and daily prices, and re-ranked after every close.
Not right now by CANSLIMAs of the 2026-07-27 close, VRTX scores 49 out of 99 on our growth-stock rating, a weak growth-stock profile. That ranks it 1147th of 4,897 rated US stocks, the top 23% of the market.
Its strongest trait is C (current quarterly earnings) at 81, and its weakest is N (new highs & catalysts) at 31. VRTX clears 2 of the six core growth traits we score per stock; the seventh, overall market direction, is judged market-wide.
On price, VRTX carries a middling Relative Strength rating of 58, meaning it has outperformed about 58% of the market over the past year.
Underneath the score: quarterly earnings up 61% year over year, sales up 8%, trading 10% below its 52-week high.
The six traits that separate real growth stocks from the rest: earnings, price leadership, and demand. Each is scored 1–99 against the whole US market. We compute them with the CANSLIM method, double-weighting earnings and relative strength.
| C | Current quarterly earnings most recent EPS growth vs. a year ago |
81 |
| A | Annual earnings growth multi-year earnings trend |
48 |
| N | New highs & catalysts proximity to new 52-week highs |
31 |
| S | Supply & demand volume behind the move vs. share supply |
32 |
| L | Leader or laggard Relative Strength within its group |
48 |
| I | Institutional sponsorship fund accumulation and 13F ownership |
62 |
On today’s data VRTX does not clear the growth-stock bar CANSLIM sets. Scores are re-computed after every close, so this can change.
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Open the app, free through September 1Not right now by CANSLIM. On today’s data VRTX does not clear the growth-stock bar CANSLIM sets. Scores are re-computed after every close, so this can change.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc (VRTX) scores 49 out of 99 on our growth-stock rating as of the 2026-07-27 close, ranking 1147th of 4,897 rated US stocks.
VRTX's most recent quarterly earnings were up about 61% year over year, with sales up 8%.
VRTX has a Relative Strength rating of 58, meaning it has outperformed roughly 58% of the US market over the trailing year.
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