A is making big moves today. Find out why the stock is trading 7% higher:

Agilent Technologies (A) is trading 7% higher at $142.18 today despite a minor, but broad, market selloff. While it's been a somewhat dispirited day for the Health Care sector in general, the stock is outrunning it's peers.

The company recently reported strong earnings. Beating analysts expectations for both EPS and Revenue. The embattled lifesciences company reported an EPS (Normalized Actual) of $1.34 (Beat by $0.13) and Revenue Actual of $1.72B (Beat by $82.05M).

Agilent Technologies has been trading between a 52-week high of $178.51 and a 52-week low of $112.32. The stock has a market cap of $42.5 Billion.

Agilent Technologies Inc. is a global leader in life sciences, diagnostics, and applied chemical markets, delivering insight and innovation toward improving the quality of life. Agilent instruments, software, services, solutions, and people provide trusted answers to customers' most challenging questions.