While we usually like to analyze for investors whether a stock is a buy or not, we also like to give you a quick rundown of the Gilead Sciences stock information you need today, with key data on recent GILD moves. That's what you can get right here. First, GILD shares climbed 0.06% or $0.04 from the day before. That brought the Gilead Sciences stock closing price to $70.52. 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... At its current level, GILD is trading lower than it was one-year ago, with the stock price down 15.41%.

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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. Some more numbers to note - GILD trading volume yesterday was 28,962,801. That's higher than Gilead Sciences stock's average daily trading volume of 22,926,900. Gilead Sciences's market cap is 92,150,592,000. 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 6.39. That's lower 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%. Most stocks considered "dividend stocks" have a yield of 2% or more. 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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