pharmaceutical stocks

Health care companies Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and Quidel (NASDAQ: QDEL) reached new 52-week highs of $32.75 and $17.21 per share, respectively, in Wednesday's trading session. Bristol-Myers saw its price target boosted by a Bank of America/Merrill Lynch analyst yesterday on belief that...

Perrigo (NASDAQ: PRGO) is scheduled to report fourth-quarter fiscal 2012 results Tuesday morning, August 16. Jim Cramer called this health care products maker the “best knock-off company known to man” and said he expects it report a good quarter. The consensus forecast has Perrigo posting...

Watson Pharmaceuticals (NYSE: WPI) is scheduled to report its second-quarter 2011 results Tuesday, July 26, before the markets open. Strong first-quarter results pushed the share price to a new all-time high; can second-quarter results do the same? Analysts are looking for the drug maker to report...

iShares Dow Jones US Healthcare Provider (NYSE: IHF) is up more than 19% year to date. The fund invests at least 90% of its assets in securities of the underlying index, which measures the performance of the health care providers sector of the U.S. equity market. Top holdings include UnitedHealth...

PowerShares S&P SmallCap Health Care (NYSE: PSCH) is up nearly 22% year to date. The investment seeks to replicate the S&P SmallCap 600 Capped Health Care index, which is comprised of common stocks of U.S. health care companies. Top holdings include Regeneron Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: REGN...