Boston, MA 09/26/2013 (wallstreetpr) – Wednesday’s trading
In Wednesday’s trading session, Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) stock dropped by 1.33%. The shares opened at a price of $31.48, climbed to an intraday high of $31.59 and headed to a close of $31.06. Approximately 3.17 million shares were traded on Wednesday and an average volume of 4.37 million shares were traded over a period of 30 days. The 52-week low of the shares was $28.81 and the 52-week high was $35.42. The company has a market capitalization of $15.53 billion.
The company
Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) is involved in discovering, developing, manufacturing and commercializing animal-health vaccines and medicine. The company is focused on companion animals and livestock. The main livestock species are cattle; poultry, swine, fish and sheep, and the main companion-animal species are cats, dogs and horses. Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) has over 300 product lines that include parasiticides, medicated feed additives, vaccines, anti-infectives and various other pharmaceutical products. Its product portfolio includes businesses like genetics, diagnostics, services and devices, dairy data management, professional consulting and e-learning. It operates in NA, Africa, Europe, Asia, Latin America and Australia.
The products and research
The company develops very result-oriented animal health-medicines and vaccines. The technical-education and business-support are designed to help livestock producers and veterinarians address their everyday real-world challenges. The company is highly-dedicated to innovation in animal health. It receives a lot of insights from the company’s research facilities across the world, a global-network of alliances that are connected to leading research-institutes and universities, as well as all the latest-advances from other industries like biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and agribusiness.
Zoetis Inc (NYSE:ZTS) also has one of the most expansive portfolios of animal-genetics support services and products in the industry. Its advanced genetic-solutions are customized to provide very accurate genetic-predictions that can help livestock-producers across regions and species increase the economic-returns on their breeding-programs.
