For any Gilead Sciences stock investors or potential Gilead Sciences stock investors, we put together key numbers on GILD shares in this daily update. You'll find the last GILD stock closing price, where Gilead Sciences stock is trading compared to a year ago, the stock's dividend yield, and more... Let's start with the last closing price for GILD stock, which was $73.12. Gilead Sciences shares increased 0.43% or $0.31 from the day before. 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 now trading lower than it was one-year ago, with the share price down 8.20%.

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The Gilead Sciences stock price 52-week high is $82.10. That was hit on 8/24/2016. The GILD stock 52-week low is $63.76, reached on 6/16/2017. Also, this - GILD trading volume yesterday was 4,952,700. That's not as much as Gilead Sciences stock's average daily trading volume of 5,212,000. Gilead Sciences's market capitalization - the amount of shares outstanding times the share price - is 95,489,608,000. That gives Gilead Sciences a large market cap, because it's between 10 billion and 200 billion. As of the start of April 2016, 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 7.20. That's not as high as 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 9.21. 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 2.86%. When the dividend yield is over 2%, the stock is a good consideration for income investors. That yield is what most investors look for when hunting for dividend stocks. For more info on Gilead Sciences stock, check out all the free content we give you at Money Morning. You'll find GILD stock news and coverage on dozens of other key stocks, updated daily.

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