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Best Pharmaceutical Stocks To Follow Now - April 12th

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Key Points

  • LLY, ABT and ABBV are MarketBeat's three pharmaceutical stocks to watch, selected because they had the highest dollar trading volume among pharma names in recent days.
  • Pharmaceutical stocks are driven by clinical trial results, regulatory approvals, patent expirations and pricing/policy changes, which can produce binary upside but also elevated volatility and risk.
  • Each company has a strong, cash-generating product mix — Eli Lilly with diabetes and obesity drugs (e.g., Mounjaro, Trulicity, Zepbound), AbbVie with immunology/oncology blockbusters (e.g., Humira, Skyrizi, Rinvoq), and Abbott with diversified diagnostics, devices, nutrition and established pharmaceuticals.
  • Five stocks to consider instead of Eli Lilly and Company.

Eli Lilly and Company, Abbott Laboratories, and AbbVie are the three Pharmaceutical stocks to watch today, according to MarketBeat's stock screener tool. Pharmaceutical stocks are shares of publicly traded companies that research, develop, manufacture, and sell prescription drugs, vaccines, and other therapeutic products. They include large integrated drugmakers as well as smaller biotechnology firms focused on specific therapies. For investors these stocks are often driven by clinical trial results, regulatory approvals, patent expirations and pricing/policy changes, creating both binary upside potential and elevated volatility and risk. These companies had the highest dollar trading volume of any Pharmaceutical stocks within the last several days.

Eli Lilly and Company (LLY)

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, and markets human pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company offers Basaglar, Humalog, Humalog Mix 75/25, Humalog U-100, Humalog U-200, Humalog Mix 50/50, insulin lispro, insulin lispro protamine, insulin lispro mix 75/25, Humulin, Humulin 70/30, Humulin N, Humulin R, and Humulin U-500 for diabetes; Jardiance, Mounjaro, and Trulicity for type 2 diabetes; and Zepbound for obesity.

Read Our Latest Research Report on LLY

Abbott Laboratories (ABT)

Abbott Laboratories, together with its subsidiaries, discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells health care products worldwide. It operates in four segments: Established Pharmaceutical Products, Diagnostic Products, Nutritional Products, and Medical Devices. The company provides generic pharmaceuticals for the treatment of pancreatic exocrine insufficiency, irritable bowel syndrome or biliary spasm, intrahepatic cholestasis or depressive symptoms, gynecological disorder, hormone replacement therapy, dyslipidemia, hypertension, hypothyroidism, Ménière's disease and vestibular vertigo, pain, fever, inflammation, and migraine, as well as provides anti-infective clarithromycin, influenza vaccine, and products to regulate physiological rhythm of the colon.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ABT

AbbVie (ABBV)

AbbVie Inc. discovers, develops, manufactures, and sells pharmaceuticals worldwide. The company offers Humira, an injection for autoimmune and intestinal Behçet's diseases, and pyoderma gangrenosum; Skyrizi to treat moderate to severe plaque psoriasis, psoriatic disease, and Crohn's disease; Rinvoq to treat rheumatoid and psoriatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, atopic dermatitis, axial spondyloarthropathy, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn's disease; Imbruvica for the treatment of adult patients with blood cancers; Epkinly to treat lymphoma; Elahere to treat cancer; and Venclexta/Venclyxto to treat blood cancers.

Read Our Latest Research Report on ABBV

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