Last updated 31 Jul 2026, 19:51 UTC · updated through the trading day

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index Today

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index today is 40/100, showing Neutral. CFGI measures current Vertex Pharmaceuticals market sentiment using live market data and proprietary behavioural models. It has been Neutral for 3 days. Get the next update by email, free

Live Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index today is 40/100 (Neutral), down from 51/100 (Neutral) yesterday and down 3 points from last week's reading of 43 (Neutral).

Live Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Score

Daily reading

CFGI.ioLast updated: 31 Jul 2026

Historical Scores

Recent Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment snapshots

Now
Neutral
40
Previous close
Neutral
51
1 week ago
Neutral
43
1 month ago
Greed
77

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Timeframe

Daily view for the wider market trend.

Broad daily Vertex Pharmaceuticals market sentiment, not short-term moves.

Live Vertex Pharmaceuticals Price and Sentiment Chart

Vertex Pharmaceuticals price colored by CFGI fear and greed sentiment over the selected daily range.

This daily chart compares Vertex Pharmaceuticals price movement with live fear, greed, neutral and extreme sentiment readings for the wider market trend.

During the last 894 days, Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment ranged from 12 (Extreme Fear) to 94 (Extreme Greed), with the current reading sitting at 40.

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What Is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index Today?

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index today shows whether the current Vertex Pharmaceuticals market is being driven by fear, neutrality or greed. It gives a live sentiment reading so traders can understand whether conditions are cautious, balanced or risk-on.

Current Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index Value

The current Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index value is measured from 0 to 100. Lower scores suggest fear, uncertainty or weak confidence in the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market, while higher scores suggest greed, confidence or stronger risk appetite.

These multi-timeframe readings help compare long-term, medium-term, short-term and intraday Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment in one place.

What Does the Current Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Score Mean?

Neutral on the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index reflects a market without a strong bias in either direction. Neither fear nor greed is dominating. Traders typically read a Neutral zone as a period of consolidation or indecision, a moment to wait for a clearer directional signal before committing to high-conviction trades.

Is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index a Buy or Sell Signal?

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index is a market sentiment indicator, not a standalone buy or sell signal. Traders use it to understand whether fear, greed, neutral or extreme sentiment is present, then compare that reading with price action, liquidity and risk management.

Which Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Timeframe Should I Use?

Use the daily reading for the wider Vertex Pharmaceuticals market trend, the 4-hour reading for medium-term conditions, the 1-hour reading for short-term sentiment and the 15-minute reading for intraday moves. The best timeframe depends on how long you plan to hold or monitor the market.

How Often Is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index Updated?

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index updates through the US trading day across four timeframes (15-minute, 1-hour, 4-hour and daily) while the market is open, recalculated from VRTX's price action and nine other signals.

How to Read the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index Chart

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index chart shows how Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment has moved through different conditions over time. Use it to compare the current reading with previous periods of fear, greed, neutrality and extreme market conditions.

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How CFGI Calculates the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index

CFGI combines live Vertex Pharmaceuticals market signals into one fear and greed reading. The modules below show whether the current Vertex Pharmaceuticals score is being driven by price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity or order book pressure.

Ten signals, one number. Every signal is scored against this asset's own history, so a reading of greed means greedier than usual for this asset, never a raw comparison between one market and another.

Price Score

30% of score
49Neutral

The price score measures Vertex Pharmaceuticals price action and trend direction, showing whether the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market is moving with strength, weakness or uncertainty.

Volatility Score

5% of score
27Fear

The volatility score looks at how aggressively the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market is moving. Higher volatility can signal fear, panic, excitement or unstable market conditions.

Volume Score

5% of score
26Fear

The volume score measures Vertex Pharmaceuticals market trading activity, showing whether participation is rising, falling or confirming the current move.

Impulse Score

30% of score
34Fear

The impulse score tracks the strength and speed of recent Vertex Pharmaceuticals market movement to identify sudden changes in momentum.

Technical Score

5% of score
45Neutral

The technical score uses market indicators to assess whether the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market is showing bullish, bearish or neutral trading conditions.

Social Score

5% of score
4Extreme Fear

The social score tracks how market participants are reacting to Vertex Pharmaceuticals across social and community-driven signals.

Dominance Score

5% of score
47Neutral

The dominance score measures how Vertex Pharmaceuticals is performing relative to the wider crypto market, helping show where attention and capital are moving.

Search Score

5% of score
49Neutral

The search score tracks interest and demand around Vertex Pharmaceuticals by measuring changes in search behaviour and market attention.

Whale Score

5% of score
50Neutral

The whale score looks at larger participant activity to help identify whether major holders may be influencing Vertex Pharmaceuticals market sentiment.

Order Book Score

5% of score
42Neutral

The order book score measures buying and selling pressure to show whether Vertex Pharmaceuticals market depth is leaning toward demand, supply or balanced conditions.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Components

  • Price Score: 49 (Neutral)
  • Volatility Score: 27 (Fear)
  • Volume Score: 26 (Fear)
  • Impulse Score: 34 (Fear)
  • Technical Score: 45 (Neutral)
  • Social Score: 4 (Extreme Fear)
  • Dominance Score: 47 (Neutral)
  • Search Score: 49 (Neutral)
  • Whale Score: 50 (Neutral)
  • Order Book Score: 42 (Neutral)

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Vertex Pharmaceuticals Market Sentiment Today

Vertex Pharmaceuticals market sentiment today is shaped by price action, volatility, trading volume, technical indicators, social activity and wider market behaviour. CFGI combines these signals to show how Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment is changing throughout the day.

Compare Vertex Pharmaceuticals with the whole-market reading on the Stock Market Fear and Greed Index, or every company on the stock fear and greed directory.

What Is Vertex Pharmaceuticals?

Binary science, binary moods.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals owns cystic fibrosis. Its medicines treat the overwhelming majority of patients who can be treated at all, a monopoly assembled over three decades of chemistry, and it is now spending that cash flow on much larger markets: Casgevy, the gene editing therapy for sickle cell disease, and Journavx, the first genuinely new class of non-opioid painkiller approved in a generation. Companies like this run on binary events, trial readouts and regulatory decisions that land on one specific day. The sentiment record shows exactly that.

The CFGI read: Vertex holds the sharpest single-day sentiment collapse in its own record by a distance. On 9 July 2026 the score fell 52 points, from 87 to 35, handing back an Extreme Greed peak of 87 out of 100 set two days earlier on 7 July 2026, with the shares at $529.59, matching the window's high print set the day before, on 6 July 2026. The crowd went from its most confident reading of the year to Neutral in one session, and the shares had not moved anything like as far.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index History

Q3 2026 breakdown. The table below updates daily.

The mirror image happened in March. On 10 March 2026 the score jumped 41 points, from 29 to 70, Fear to Greed in a single day. Three days later it was back under the line, opening a nine-day run of Fear or worse that lasted to 25 March 2026. Conviction here has a very short half-life.

The deepest reading belongs to the summer before: 13 out of 100 on 5 August 2025 with the shares at $374.98, the start of a four-day Extreme Fear run and the lowest score in the window. Only 84 of 247 stocks sat in Fear or worse that day and 4 were in Extreme Fear, so this was a Vertex problem rather than a market one. The shares bottomed three days later at $366.54 on 8 August 2025 and spent the rest of the year working back, finishing at $479.77, up 8.2%.

Across 273 days the tally is 117 Neutral, 81 Fear, 67 Greed, 4 Extreme Fear and 4 Extreme Greed, an average of 49 out of 100 and a reading today of 43, Neutral. Symmetrical extremes, a heavy Neutral middle and swings of 41 and 52 points in between: that is what a company whose value rests on data readouts looks like when you measure the crowd instead of the pipeline. It also makes Vertex one of the more volatile temperaments feeding the full crypto and stock Fear and Greed Index, and one of the more interesting to hold against the calmer names on our stock board.

Days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed: days by zone, the last 365 days (250 readings)
Extreme FearFearNeutralGreedExtreme Greed
Extreme Fear: 4Fear: 74Neutral: 107Greed: 61Extreme Greed: 4

Source: CFGI dataset, 250 daily readings across the 365 days to 31 Jul 2026. Updates daily.

For the market Vertex Pharmaceuticals trades in, see the stock fear and greed index, which scores the whole US market on the same 0 to 100 scale.

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX) Stock Fundamentals, Analyst Ratings & Financials

Beyond the sentiment score: the fundamentals, analyst views and financials for Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (VRTX), for context alongside the live Fear and Greed reading above. Company data via Financial Modeling Prep.

About Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

Sector
Healthcare
Industry
Biotechnology
CEO
Reshma Kewalramani
Employees
6,400
Exchange
NASDAQ
Headquarters
Boston, MA, US
Listed
Jul 24, 1991
Website
www.vrtx.com

Key Stats & Valuation

Market cap
$121.1B
P/E (TTM)
28.0
P/B
6.26
Net margin
35.40%
Beta
0.29
Dividend yield
0.00%
52-week range
$363 – $534
67% of range

Analyst Ratings & Price Target

What Wall Street thinks: the consensus rating and average price target from 56 independent equity analysts covering VRTX.

Wall Street consensus
Buy
Based on 56 analysts: 47 buy · 8 hold · 1 sell
Analyst average target
$549.21
+15% implied vs current price
analyst range $350 to $616

Ratings and price targets are aggregated from independent Wall Street analysts (data via Financial Modeling Prep). They are not investment advice or a recommendation from CFGI.

Earnings

Next earnings: Aug 3, 2026 · EPS estimate $4.74 per share.

ReportedEPS actualEstimateSurprise
May 4, 2026$4.47$4.24+5%
Feb 12, 2026$5.03$5.11-2%
Nov 3, 2025$4.80$4.57+5%
Aug 4, 2025$4.52$4.29+5%

EPS figures are earnings per share (USD), not total company profit.

Financials

Annual revenue, net income and earnings per share. “Growth” is year-over-year revenue.

YearRevenueGrowthNet incomeEPS
2025$12.07B+10%$3.95B$15.46
2024$11.02B+12%$-535.6M$-2.08
2023$9.87B+11%$3.62B$14.05
2022$8.93B+18%$3.32B$12.97
2021$7.57B+22%$2.34B$9.09
2020$6.21B+49%$2.71B$10.44
2019$4.16B+37%$1.18B$4.58
2018$3.05B+22%$2.10B$8.25
2017$2.49B+46%$263.5M$1.06
2016$1.70B+65%$-112.1M$-0.46
2015$1.03B+78%$-558.1M$-2.32
2014$580.4M-52%$-738.6M$-3.14
2013$1.21B-21%$-445.0M$-1.98
2012$1.53B+8%$-107.0M$-0.50
2011$1.41B+884%$29.6M$0.14
2010$143.4M+40%$-754.6M$-3.77
2009$102.0M-42%$-641.6M$-3.70
2008$175.5M-12%$-459.9M$-3.27
2007$199.0M-8%$-391.3M$-3.03
2006$216.4M+34%$-206.9M$-1.83
2005$160.9M+57%$-203.4M$-2.28
2004$102.7M+49%$-166.2M$-2.12
2003$69.1M-57%$-196.8M$-2.56
2002$161.1M-4%$-108.6M$-1.43
2001$167.5M+114%$-66.2M$-0.89
2000$78.1M+27%$-39.7M$-0.59
1999$61.6M+39%$-41.0M$-0.80
1998$44.4M+1%$-33.1M$-0.65
1997$43.8M+229%$-19.8M$-0.41
1996$13.3M-40%$-40.0M$-1.07
1995$22.1M+13%$-21.5M$-0.63
1994$19.6M-30%$-17.6M$-0.56
1993$27.9M+634%$2.0M$0.08
1992$3.8M+19%$-8.5M$-0.35
1991$3.2M+39%$-5.1M$-0.35
1990$2.3M$-4.3M$-0.22
Revenue by year

Bar = revenue; green grew, red fell vs the prior year.

2025
+10%
2024
+12%
2023
+11%
2022
+18%
2021
+22%
2020
+49%
2019
+37%
2018
+22%
2017
+46%
2016
+65%

Dividends

Dividend yield
0.00%

Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index FAQ

What is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index today?

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index today is 40/100 on the daily view, showing Neutral. It summarizes live Vertex Pharmaceuticals market sentiment on a 0 to 100 scale.

How is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index calculated?

CFGI combines price action, impulse, volatility, volume, technicals, social sentiment, dominance, search interest, whale activity and order book pressure into one Vertex Pharmaceuticals fear and greed reading.

What is a good Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index reading?

There is no single good reading, because the index measures mood rather than value. Extreme Fear below 25 marks the points where sentiment is most washed out, and Extreme Greed above 75 the points carrying the most risk, so what counts as good depends on whether you are buying or selling.

How accurate is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index?

It reads sentiment accurately and predicts price poorly, and those are two different things. The score reflects what the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market feels right now across ten live inputs, so treat it as a risk gauge rather than a forecast: it tells you how one-sided the crowd has become, not what happens next.

What does the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index measure?

It measures the emotional state of the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market on a 0 to 100 scale, from extreme fear at 0 to extreme greed at 100. CFGI builds that number from ten indicators including price action, volatility, volume, momentum, technicals and social sentiment, rather than from price alone.

How do I use the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index?

Most people use it to size risk rather than to time entries. The extreme readings are the useful ones: they flag when the crowd has become one-sided, which is when caution costs least and greed costs most. Read it alongside price and volume, never on its own.

How often is the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index updated?

The Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index is updated every 15 minutes, so the live reading can change as Vertex Pharmaceuticals market conditions shift.

What does a low Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed score mean?

A low score (0 to 39) signals fear or extreme fear, where traders are cautious, risk-averse or pessimistic about the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market.

What does a high Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed score mean?

A high score (60 to 100) signals greed or extreme greed, where confidence, risk appetite and bullish sentiment dominate the Vertex Pharmaceuticals market.

Can I get alerts when the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index changes?

Yes. CFGI alerts let you track Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment across daily, 4-hour, 1-hour and 15-minute timeframes. Create alerts for fear, greed, extreme readings or specific Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index score changes.

Can I add the Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index to my website?

Yes. The CFGI widget lets you embed a live Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed Index on your website, so visitors can see current Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment, live scores and market conditions without you building the data system yourself.

Can I use Vertex Pharmaceuticals Fear and Greed data in my own app or trading bot?

Yes. The CFGI API gives developers access to Vertex Pharmaceuticals sentiment data, multi-timeframe fear and greed scores and market signals for dashboards, trading bots, apps and research tools.

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About CFGI

The per-asset sentiment record.

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Every CFGI score is built from 10 indicators: price, volatility, volume, impulse, technical analysis, social media, dominance, search interest, whale movements and order book pressure. The same data powers our API, alerts and embeddable widgets.