TheStreet lowered shares of Vertex Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:VRTX) from a hold rating to a sell rating in a research report released on Tuesday morning, Analyst Ratings Network reports. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) shares after opening at $66.49 moved to $67.07 on last trade day and at the end of the day closed at $65.17. Company price to sales ratio in past twelve months was calculated as 12.70 and price to cash ratio as 10.50. Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (NASDAQ:VRTX) showed a negative weekly performance of -3.74%.
Twitter, Inc. (TWTR) and Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) have announced a partnership in which users can add products to their Amazon shopping cart through their Twitter account. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) shares fell -1.57% in last trading session and ended the day on $292.71. AMZN return on equity ratio is recorded as 3.20% and its return on assets is 0.90%. Amazon.com, Inc. (NASDAQ:AMZN) yearly performance is 13.57%.
Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) is getting punished by investors after whipsawing Wall Street over how to value its business. The San Francisco-based microblogging service, which makes money from advertisements, said at the time of its initial public offering in November that its user growth was paramount. Now Twitter insiders say a more important metric is the reach and impact of the short messages that people send through the service and the value of the ads embedded in the tweets. Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) shares moved down -3.74% in last trading session and was closed at $30.66, while trading in range of $29.51 – $32.00. Twitter Inc. (NYSE:TWTR) year to date (YTD) performance is -51.83%.
3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) and Google Inc. (NASDAQ:GOOG) have shared the information on their collaboration to unveil a smartphone. This venture is named Project Ara and is supposed to provide a new hardware platform for modular smartphones. The Project Ara would enormously reduce the electronic waste. The Project Ara phones are expected to be available by next year and will be priced around $50. Google Inc. created this project to expand its reach of one billion smartphone users which are just a fraction of remaining six billion. 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) weekly performance is 3.74%. On last trading day company shares ended up $49.11. 3D Systems Corporation (NYSE:DDD) distance from 50-day simple moving average (SMA50) is -15.01%. Analysts mean target price for the company is $71.97.