Any investor likes when the share price of stock that you own rises in value. That is great for your portfolio’s value. To check the percentage increase of a stock is pretty straightforward. The gains and losses of a stock are shown by positive or negative percentages, which alter in amount, value, and intensity. These are three stocks that has recently shown the biggest falls: Puma Biotechnology (NYSE:PBYI), Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNSS), and Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PTX).
Puma Biotechnology (NYSE:PBYI) is the first such stock. Its price is down a lot from its high over the last 12 months when it was $297.37. That high price came on August 26 of last year. The latest price was at a premium to $80.76, which is the low for the last 52 weeks (shown on July 30 of this year). At the latest close, the weekly upbeat performance for the stock was at +6.62%. It maintained that price at -51.59% in 2015.
Sunesis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASDAQ:SNSS) last closed at $1.17. That price is a discount to the SMA 200, when the approximate price was $2.43. The range over the last 52 weeks has been between $0.84 and $8.45. It trades now at a discount to its high over the last 52 weeks of $8.46 (that was on August 27 of last year). The price is at a premium to the low of the same period, which happened on July 27, 2015, when it was $0.84. As for its weekly upbeat performance, that is at +8.80%.
The third stock is Pernix Therapeutics Holdings Inc (NASDAQ:PTX).
During last trade, its share volume was higher than usual at 1.99 million. The shares were up +0.21% to be at $4.70 each. The downbeat performance for the week, as recorded at its latest close, was -5.62%, which it kept at -49.95% so far in 2015. Looking back over the past 12 months, the stock had a lower price on August 5, 2015, when it was $4.57.