Here's a daily update on the Gilead Sciences stock price for interested investors, plus some key data on GILD stock that's important to know. While we frequently give readers a more detailed Gilead Sciences stock price analysis, you can get a quick rundown of key GILD numbers here, for June 27, 2017. GILD shares rose 1.02% or $0.72 from the previous trading session. That took the Gilead Sciences stock price to $71.24. To put this latest Gilead Sciences closing price in perspective, here's a look at where the GILD share price has traded in the past year... GILD is trading below where it was one-year ago, with shares having slipped 11.47%.

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The Gilead Sciences stock price 52-week high is $88.85. That was hit on 7/25/2016. The GILD stock 52-week low is $63.76, reached on 6/16/2017. Another point to note - GILD trading volume yesterday was 22,911,201. That's greater than Gilead Sciences stock's average daily trading volume of 14,145,064. The market cap of Gilead Sciences is 92,150,592,000. That means Gilead Sciences has a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of April 1, 2016, the company with the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies is Apple.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Gilead Sciences stock is 6.67. That's less than the March 2016 S&P 500 P/E ratio of about 23. To really gauge if this stock's P/E is high or low, you should compare GILD to other companies in the same industry. The current EPS (earnings per share) of GILD is 9.46. Beta - how closely the stock trades with the overall market, with a beta of 1 meaning it trades in step with the broader index -- for Gilead Sciences is 1.20. Gilead Sciences stock has a dividend yield of 2.95%. Generally a dividend yield of 2% or more is decent for those investors who want income from dividend stocks. Every day we publish Gilead Sciences stock news and coverage on a handful of other key stocks we're watching now so you can maximize profits. To get new info and stock news on GILD and other companies you are interested in, sign up for Money Morning - it's free.

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