VERTEX PHARMACEUTICALS INC MA

The information presented below supplements the risk factors set forth in Part I, Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on February 13, 2025. There have been no material changes from the risk factors previously disclosed in the Annual Report on Form 10-K.

SPECIAL NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and, in particular, our Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations set forth in Part I, Item 2, contain a number of forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements are not purely historical and may be accompanied by words such as “anticipates,” “may,” “forecasts,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “potentially,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” and other words and terms of similar meaning. Such statements may relate to:

•our expectations regarding the amount of, timing of, and trends with respect to our financial performance, including revenues, costs and expenses, taxes, and other gains and losses;

•our expectations regarding our clinical trials and pipeline programs, including expectations for patient enrollment, development timelines, the expected timing of data from our ongoing and planned clinical trials, regulatory authority filings and other submissions for our therapies, communications with regulatory authorities and anticipated regulatory approvals;

•our ability to maintain and obtain adequate reimbursement for our products, our ability to launch, commercialize and market our products or any of our other therapies for which we obtain regulatory approval and our ability to obtain label expansions for existing therapies;

•our expectations regarding our ability to continue to grow our CF business by increasing the number of people with CF eligible and able to receive our medicines, providing improved treatment options for people who are already eligible for one of our medicines, and pursuing genetic therapies for people with CF who cannot currently benefit from our medicines;

•the data that will be generated by ongoing and planned clinical trials and the ability to use that data to advance compounds, continue development or support regulatory filings;

•our beliefs regarding the support provided by clinical trials and preclinical and nonclinical studies of our therapies for further investigation, clinical trials or potential use as a treatment;

•our plans to continue investing in our research and development programs, including anticipated timelines for our programs, and our strategy to develop our pipeline programs, alone or with third party-collaborators;

•our beliefs regarding the approximate patient populations for the disease areas on which we focus;

•plans for and prospects of our business development activities, including the potential benefits and therapeutic scope of our collaborations, our ability to integrate and continue operations of acquired businesses, and our ability to successfully capitalize on these opportunities;

•the establishment, development and maintenance of collaborative relationships, including potential milestone payments or other obligations;

•potential business development activities, including the identification of potential collaborative partners or acquisition targets;

•our ability to expand and protect our intellectual property portfolio and otherwise maintain exclusive rights to products;

•potential fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates and the effectiveness of our foreign currency management program;

•our expectations regarding cash generated by operations, our cash balance and expected generation and interest income;

•our expectations regarding our provision for or benefit from income taxes and the utilization of our deferred tax assets;

•our ability to use our research programs to identify and develop new product candidates to address serious diseases and significant unmet medical needs;

•our plans to build and maintain our global supply chains and manufacturing infrastructure and capabilities, including for cell and gene therapies; and

•our liquidity and our expectations regarding the possibility of raising additional capital.

Forward-looking statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties, or other factors that are difficult to predict and could cause actual events or results to differ materially from those indicated in any such statements. These risks, uncertainties, and other factors include, but are not limited to, those described in our “Risk Factors”in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December 31, 2024, which was filed with the SEC on February 13, 2025, and those described from time to time in our future reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Any such forward-looking statements are made on the basis of our views and assumptions as of the date of the filing and are not estimates of future performance. Except as required by law, we undertake no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statements. The reader is cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such statements.