NASDAQ: JAZZ

Jazz Pharmaceuticals (JAZZ) Stock Analysis & Forecast

Sep 28 close

$238.28+0.33 (+0.1%)

Gekko Brief

AI summary

Jazz Pharmaceuticals moves this week on record Q2 2026 results, with revenue reaching $1.2083 billion, up 16% year-over-year, driven by growth across its sleep, epilepsy and oncology products. Goldman Sachs initiates coverage with a buy rating and a $337 price target, citing strong performance and future growth prospects from new drug launches. Separately, the company extends and reprices its $1.895 billion term loan, moving the maturity to 2033 and reducing interest margins by 50 basis points, while also outlining a $3 billion to $5 billion opportunity for Ziihera alongside ongoing lifecycle work for Epidiolex.

The stock closes at $238.28, little changed on the day, sitting between its 50-day average of $248.62 and 200-day average of $210.58, reflecting a mixed short-term trend against a firmer longer-term one, with the 1-year return at 86.4%. The GekkoIndex reads 64.3, placing JAZZ in the Accumulation zone. Against a Gekko Fair Value of $304.40, the current price sits 21.7% below that level.

The next earnings report is scheduled for 4 November 2026, 36 days out and beyond a typical 20-trading-day hold; the prior report on 3 August showed an EPS of $4.89 against an estimate of $5.06, with an average absolute reaction of 8.1% across past reports. One trailblazer holder appears among current holdings. Seasonality data shows the next 20 trading days averaging a 4.6% gain over 5 years, rising in 4 of them. Consensus among 18 firms stands at 17 buy, 1 hold, 0 sell, with a consensus target of $292.81.

Written by AI and checked automatically against the figures on this page. Generated Sep 29, 2026 from the data above.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals price vs fair value

$304.40$238.28Sep ’25Mar ’26Sep ’26
Close $238.28200-day averageGekko Fair Value $304.40

Jazz Pharmaceuticals quick facts

Market cap
$14.97B
P/E ratio
16.1
Forward P/E
10.9
EPS, TTM
$14.70
Revenue, TTM
$4.60B
Profit margin
20.4%
Dividend yield
—
Beta
0.36
Volume
788,261 avg 768,641
1-year return
+86.4%
Typical daily move
±2.2%
Typical 20-day move
±4.7%
50-day average
$248.62
200-day average
$210.58
Next earnings
Nov 4 after close
Shares outstanding
64.92M
52-week range
$125.79$266.38

Jazz Pharmaceuticals swing-trade checklist

Jazz Pharmaceuticals scores 4 supportive, 1 mixed and 0 headwinds across the 5 checklist items with data.

Six things swing traders check before a 20-day hold, read from the latest data.

4 supportive1 mixed0 headwinds

  • Trendmixed

    Averages disagree

    Close $238.28 sits between the 50-day ($248.62) and 200-day ($210.58) averages, or the averages disagree.

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  • GekkoIndexsupportive

    64.3, Accumulation

    Reading 64.3 is in the Accumulation zone.

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  • Fair valuesupportive

    21.7% below

    Price is 21.7% below Gekko Fair Value (more than 5% below).

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  • Smart moneyno data

    No data

    No insider, Congress or unusual options activity in the window.

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  • Earnings risksupportive

    Reports in 36 days

    Next report Nov 4, 2026, 36 days away — outside a typical 20-trading-day hold.

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  • Seasonalitysupportive

    +4.6% on average

    From this point in the calendar, the next 20 trading days averaged +4.6% over 5 years, rising in 4 of them.

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock chart and price history

Jazz Pharmaceuticals closed at $238.28 on Sep 28, 2026, +86.4% over the past year, inside a 52-week range of $125.79 to $266.38.

Close50-day average200-day averageVolume
Jazz Pharmaceuticals share price, past year, with 50-day and 200-day moving averages and volume$150$200$250NovDecJan 2026FebMarAprMayJunJulAugSep238.28

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Performance Breakdown

1 month
−5.1%
3 months
+0.2%
6 months
+30.4%
1 year
+86.4%
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About Jazz Pharmaceuticals

Jazz Pharmaceuticals researches, develops, and brings to market medicines sold across the United States, Europe, and other international regions. Its treatments address conditions such as narcolepsy and idiopathic hypersomnia, seizure disorders including Lennox-Gastaut and Dravet syndromes, several forms of leukemia and lymphoma, certain lung and biliary tract cancers, a specific type of glioma, and severe veno-occlusive disease, with products including Xywav, Epidiolex, Rylaze, Enrylaze, Zepzelca, Ziihera, Modeyso, Defitelio, and Vyxeos.

Beyond its marketed products, the company runs a pipeline of experimental treatments at various clinical stages, spanning cancers such as gastroesophageal adenocarcinoma, biliary tract cancer, breast cancer, acute myeloid leukemia, and rare tumor types, along with therapies aimed at glioma and absence epilepsy. It advances some of this work through licensing and collaboration arrangements with other firms, including Redx Pharma, Autifony Therapeutics, Zymeworks, Sumitomo Pharma, and Werewolf Therapeutics.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals was founded in 2003 and is based in Dublin, Ireland. Its shares are listed on the NASDAQ under the ticker JAZZ.

Listed
NASDAQ
Sector
Health technology
Industry
Pharmaceuticals: major
Website
jazzpharma.com

Jazz Pharmaceuticals GekkoIndex: the smart money zone

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s GekkoIndex — Gekko’s 0 to 100 smart money score — reads 64.3, in the Accumulation zone, up 2.8 points over five sessions.

010064.3Accumulation

Up 2.8 points over five sessions.

Reading for Sep 28, 2026

What followed past readings in each zone

ZoneReadings5 days10 days20 days50 days
Buying25+0.9%+3.6%+2.4%+3.3%
Accumulation (current zone)138+1.5%+1.8%+2.5%+4.1%
Neutral464+0.6%+1.4%+2.8%+8.8%
Distribution39−1.7%−2.2%−1.1%−5.7%
Selling6Too few readings yet

Average JAZZ share-price change over the trading days after each daily reading in its GekkoIndex history. Across every stock Gekko tracks, Accumulation readings averaged +2.3% over 20 days. Past behaviour doesn’t guarantee future results.

Accumulation zone: Institutional interest building. About the five zones →

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Is Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock overvalued? Gekko Fair Value

Jazz Pharmaceuticals trades 21.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $304.40, so the shares are undervalued on Gekko’s estimate.

Gekko’s own estimate of what Jazz Pharmaceuticals shares are worth, recalculated every trading day.

$304.40

Gekko Fair Value, Sep 26, 2026

21.7% Undervalued

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals insider and Congress trading

No open-market insider purchases were filed for Jazz Pharmaceuticals, and no Congress trades were disclosed, in the last 90 days.

Plus buybacks, unusual options and fund positions, each dated to when it became public.

Insider buying last 90 days

No open-market insider purchases were filed for JAZZ in the last 90 days.

From Form 4 filings, dated to when each was filed.

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Congress trades last 90 days

No trades in JAZZ were disclosed by members of Congress in the last 90 days.

From congressional disclosures, which report amounts as ranges.

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Buybacks

Jazz Pharmaceuticals has been buying back its own shares.

Bought back, quarter ended Jun 30, 2025
$125.0M
As a share of market cap
0.84%

From company filings.

Hedge funds and billionaires quarter ended Jun 30

1of the funds Gekko tracks holds JAZZ.

1added0opened0trimmed1sold out
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Jazz Pharmaceuticals earnings: next date and track record

Jazz Pharmaceuticals reports on Nov 4, 2026, after the close (36 days away), and beat the EPS estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports.

5 of 8reports beat the EPS estimate
±8.1%average move across the report
5 of 8reports followed by a gain

Share-price move across each report

+6.9%Nov ’24+5.5%Feb ’25−14.2%May ’25−8.8%Aug ’25−2.7%Nov ’25+13.6%Feb ’26+9.9%May ’26+3.5%Aug ’26

Last earnings call, Aug 3, 2026 AI summary

What they said
Jazz Pharmaceuticals reported record Q2 2026 revenue of $1.2 billion, up 16% year-over-year, driven by double-digit growth across all key brands. Xywav net sales grew 13% to $471 million with ~17,125 active patients (+12% YoY). Epidiolex net sales grew 16% YoY to $292 million. The company is preparing for a potential zanidatamab launch with an August 25 PDUFA date for first-line HER2-positive metastatic GEA.
Guidance
Management raised full year 2026 revenue guidance based on strong first-half momentum. The company expressed confidence in sustained growth driven by its diversified portfolio, pending zanidatamab approval, and continued Xywav and Epidiolex demand.
ReportedEPSSurpriseRevenueSurpriseMove
Aug 3, 2026$4.89
est $5.06
−3.4%$1.21B
est $1.11B
+8.4%+3.5%
May 5, 2026$6.34
est $4.66
+36.1%$1.20B
est $1.17B
+2.8%+9.9%
Feb 24, 2026$6.64
est $6.51
+2.1%——+13.6%
Nov 5, 2025$8.13
est $5.95
+36.6%$1.13B
est $1.11B
+1.3%−2.7%
Aug 5, 2025−$8.25
est −$6.12
−34.8%$1.05B
est $1.05B
−0.1%−8.8%
May 6, 2025$1.68
est $4.66
−63.9%$897.8M
est $1.06B
−15.7%−14.2%
Feb 25, 2025$6.60
est $5.81
+13.6%$1.09B
est $985.0M
+10.5%+5.5%
Nov 6, 2024$6.61
est $5.50
+20.2%$1.05B
est $1.06B
−0.2%+6.9%

“Move” is the close of the first session after the report compared with the close of the last session before it, so it reads the same whether the company reported before the open or after the close.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock forecast and analyst price targets

Analysts’ average 12-month price target for Jazz Pharmaceuticals is $292.81, +22.9% from the last close, from 18 firms rating the stock in the last 90 days.

$292.81consensus 12-month target, +22.9% from the last close
Low $229High $337
Buy17
Hold1
Sell0

Each firm’s latest rating in the last 90 days: 18 firms.

Latest analyst actions

DateFirmRatingTargetvs price
Sep 28Piper SandlerBuy, reiterated$310+30.1%
Sep 25BernsteinHold, maintained$229−3.9%
Sep 24Goldman SachsBuy, initiated$337+41.4%
Sep 11UBSBuy, maintained$337+41.4%
Sep 10BarclaysBuy, maintained$271+13.7%
+2.5%average 20-day move after past Accumulation readings
+4.6%average move over the next 20 trading days in the last 5 years
±2.2%typical daily move, from the 14-day average range

Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions. These are analyst targets and historical base rates, which don’t guarantee future results.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals seasonality: the next 20 trading days

Over the next 20 trading days from Sep 26, Jazz Pharmaceuticals averaged +4.6% across the last 5 years, rising in 4 of them.

Next 20 trading days, by year

+6.6%2021+5.9%2022−1.5%2023−1.9%2024+9.1%2025

Average move and hit rate

WindowAverageYears higher
Next 5 trading days+1.7%3 of 5
Next 10 trading days+2.2%3 of 5
Next 15 trading days+5.1%4 of 5
Next 20 trading days+4.6%4 of 5
Next 30 trading days+4.2%4 of 5

For scale, JAZZ’s typical 20-trading-day move in either direction is about 4.7%.

Jazz Pharmaceuticals market cap and key statistics

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s market cap is $14.97B, with a P/E ratio of 16.1 and revenue of $4.60B over the last twelve months.

Valuation

Market cap
$14.97B
P/E ratio
16.1
Forward P/E
10.9
EPS, TTM
$14.70
Gekko Fair Value
$304.40

Trading

Volume
788,261
Avg volume, 20 days
768,641
52-week high
$266.38
52-week low
$125.79
Shares outstanding
64.92M

Financials

Revenue, TTM
$4.60B
Profit margin
20.4%
Return on equity
22.1%
Quarterly earnings growth, YoY
+3.2%

Risk and income

Beta
0.36
Typical daily move
±2.2%
Typical 20-day move
±4.7%

Jazz Pharmaceuticals peers

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s 6 largest industry peers by market value, with today’s move, GekkoIndex zone and gap to Gekko Fair Value.

StockTodayGekkoIndex zonevs Fair Value
LLYEli Lilly+0.4%Neutral17.9% above
JNJJohnson & Johnson+0.7%Neutral0.5% above
ABBVAbbVie+0.7%Neutral23.3% above
MRKMerck+0.7%Neutral4.2% below
AZNAstraZeneca+0.3%Neutral39.9% below
PFEPfizer+0.4%Neutral4.0% below

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Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock FAQ

What is Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s market cap?

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s market cap is $14.97B at the Sep 28, 2026 close of $238.28, with 64.92M shares outstanding. The shares trade on a P/E ratio of 16.1.

What is the Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock forecast?

The consensus analyst 12-month price target for Jazz Pharmaceuticals is $292.81, +22.9% from the last close. Of the 18 firms that rated the stock in the last 90 days, 17 rate it a buy, 1 a hold and 0 a sell. Gekko doesn’t publish price predictions of its own.

Is Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock overvalued or undervalued?

On Gekko’s estimate Jazz Pharmaceuticals is undervalued: the Sep 28, 2026 close of $238.28 is 21.7% below Gekko Fair Value of $304.40. Gekko Fair Value is recalculated every trading day, and a gap inside 5% either way counts as about fair value.

When does Jazz Pharmaceuticals report earnings next?

Jazz Pharmaceuticals is expected to report on Nov 4, 2026, after the market closes (36 days away). Analysts expect earnings of $6.44 per share on revenue of $1.21B. Jazz Pharmaceuticals beat the earnings estimate in 5 of its last 8 reports, moving 8.1% on average across the report.

What is Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s 52-week high and low?

Jazz Pharmaceuticals’s 52-week high is $266.38 and its 52-week low is $125.79; it closed at $238.28 on Sep 28, 2026, +86.4% over the past year.

Is Jazz Pharmaceuticals stock a buy right now?

Gekko describes the data; it does not make buy or sell recommendations. On the swing-trade checklist, 4 of the 5 items with data read as supportive (gekkoindex, fair value, earnings risk and seasonality), 1 as mixed (trend). The checklist is a description of current data, not a recommendation.

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