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 July 22, 2017. We'll start with where GILD ended trading yesterday -- at a share price of $73.76. Gilead Sciences shares closed up 0.46% or $0.34 from the day before. Here's how the current Gilead Sciences price compares to 52-week highs and lows... At today's price, GILD is trading below where it was one-year ago, with shares lower by 15.45%.

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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 number to note - GILD trading volume yesterday was 9,271,300. That's more than Gilead Sciences stock's average daily trading volume of 8,874,022. Gilead Sciences's market cap is 96,384,408,000. That gives Gilead Sciences a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of the beginning of April, Apple has the biggest market cap of all publicly traded companies.

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The current P/E (price/earnings) ratio of Gilead Sciences stock is 6.88. That's smaller 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 1.21. Gilead Sciences stock has a dividend yield of 2.83%. Most income investors look for "dividend stocks" that have a yield of 2% or more, but there are different factors that affect the health of a company's payout. 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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