Affymetrix Shares Up 4.8% (AFFX)

Shares of Affymetrix, Inc. AFFX are trading up 4.8% at $5.24 per share during the Monday afternoon trading session. The day's trading range for shares of Affymetrix, Inc has been between $5.02 and $5.36 per share. Analysts covering Affymetrix, Inc. (AFFX) stock give it a consensus price target of $5.63 per share. Trading volume for Affymetrix, Inc has been light, with 353,000 shares having been traded today, still less than half the daily average volume of 963,000 shares. Affymetrix, Inc technology is used by the world's top pharmaceutical, diagnostic, and biotechnology companies, as well as leading academic, government, and nonprofit research institutes. More than 1,900 systems have been shipped around the world and more than 22,000 peer-reviewed papers have been published using the company's technology. Read more from Benzinga's Company news.