A Director at Jazz Pharmaceuticals is Exercising Options


Today it was reported that a Director at Jazz Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: JAZZ), Rick Winningham, exercised options to sell 16,639 JAZZ shares at $64.29 a share, for a total transaction value of $2.93M.

Following Rick Winningham’s last JAZZ Sell transaction on August 14, 2017, the stock climbed by 35.9%.

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Based on Jazz Pharmaceuticals’ latest earnings report for the quarter ending June 30, the company posted quarterly revenue of $500 million and quarterly net profit of $92.32 million. In comparison, last year the company earned revenue of $394 million and had a net profit of $106 million. JAZZ’s market cap is $10.64B and the company has a P/E ratio of 24.80. Currently, Jazz Pharmaceuticals has an average volume of 262.6K.

Based on 15 analyst ratings, the analyst consensus is Strong Buy with an average price target of $202.42, reflecting a -13.4% downside.

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals Plc operates as a specialty biopharmaceutical company, which focuses on the identification, development and commercialization of pharmaceutical products in the areas of narcolepsy, oncology, pain and psychiatry.

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