Life Sciences
A federal jury said Boston Scientific must pay Medtronic $250 million for patent infringement; Standard & Poor's raised its Covidien outlook to "positive."
| LAST | MARKET CAP | LAST | PCT. | |||
| NO. | WEEK | COMPANY | TICKER | (MILLIONS) | PRICE | CHANGE |
| 1 | 2 | Covidien Ltd. | COV | $25,024 | $50.09 | 3.7% |
| 2 | 1 | Thermo Fisher Scientific | TMO | $24,683 | $59.02 | 1.8% |
| 3 | 3 | Boston Scientific Corp. | BSX | $19,885 | $13.29 | -1.6% |
| 4 | 5 | Biogen Idec | BIIB | $18,387 | $62.75 | 1.1% |
| 5 | 4 | Genzyme Corp. | GENZ | $18,300 | $68.46 | 0.0% |
| 6 | 6 | Waters Corp. | WAT | $6,158 | $61.52 | -3.5% |
| 7 | 7 | Hologic | HOLX | $6,148 | $24.03 | 5.7% |
| 8 | 8 | Charles River Laboratories | CRL | $4,379 | $64.28 | 0.4% |
| 9 | 10 | Vertex Pharmaceuticals | VRTX | $4,024 | $28.63 | 6.0% |
| 10 | 9 | Millipore Corp. | MIL | $4,002 | $72.65 | -2.0% |
| 11 | 11 | PerkinElmer | PKI | $3,348 | $28.28 | 1.0% |
| 12 | 12 | Inverness Medical | IMA | $2,837 | $36.56 | 12.1% |
| 13 | 13 | Sepracor | SEPR | $2,329 | $21.61 | 2.4% |
| 14 | 14 | Bruker Corp. | BRKR | $1,901 | $11.64 | -4.7% |
| 15 | 15 | Haemonetics Corp. | HAE | $1,450 | $56.36 | 1.3% |
| 16 | 16 | Parexel International Corp. | PRXL | $1,392 | $24.59 | -3.3% |
| 17 | 17 | Alkermes | ALKS | $1,268 | $12.67 | -7.0% |
| 18 | 18 | Alnylam Pharmaceuticals | ALNY | $1,179 | $28.88 | -1.8% |
| 19 | 19 | Cubist Pharmaceuticals | CBST | $1,075 | $19.06 | 3.8% |
| 20 | 20 | Zoll Medical Corp. | ZOLL | $757 | $36.25 | 1.2% |
| 21 | 21 | Phase Forward | PFWD | $742 | $17.34 | -2.5% |
| 22 | 23 | AMAG Pharmaceuticals | AMAG | $680 | $40.00 | 2.7% |
| 23 | 22 | Sirtris Pharmaceuticals | SIRT | $658 | $22.48 | 0.0% |
| 24 | 24 | Abiomed | ABMD | $484 | $14.78 | 5.9% |
| 25 | - | Momenta Pharmaceuticals | MNTA | $472 | $12.82 | -1.1% |
The Boston Globe/Bloomberg Massachusetts Technology and Life Sciences indexes are price-weighted indexes of all technology and life sciences stocks in the state. Listed above are the top companies, ranked by market value, in each sector. Asterisks indicate a stock that has moved five places or more in the last week. For up-to-the-minute rankings and stock prices, visit boston.com/business.
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