Vertex Pharma Still Extremely Healthy Even After VX-864 Disappointment

Image Shown: Vertex Pharma has a huge net cash position on the balance sheet offering it tremendous financial flexibility. Image Source: Vertex Pharma. By Brian Nelson, CFA A broadly diversified stock portfolio of 15-25 securities or no less than 15 securities across most, if not all S&P 500, sectors may make sense for a lot of long-term investors. Included in this diversified mix of equities may be biotech exposure, and our favorite way to play the speculative biotech space, albeit in a very small allocation in the Best Ideas Newsletter portfolio, is with Vertex Pharma (VRTX). We’re not making any changes to the newsletter portfolio in light of news of a recent setback at the company. On Thursday June 10, … Read more