What Moderna (MRNA) Investors Need to Know

By Emilio Sanchez • Wednesday, September 13 13:53 • Permanent Link

Moderna marked a 3.5% change today, compared to 0.0% for the S&P 500. Is it a good value at today's price of $108.88? Only an in-depth analysis can answer that question, but here are some facts that can give you an idea:

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers, develops, and commercializes messenger RNA therapeutics and vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, autoimmune, and cardiovascular diseases in the United States, Europe, and internationally.
Moderna belongs to the Health Care sector, which has an average price to earnings (P/E) ratio of 24.45 and an average price to book (P/B) of 4.16
The company's P/B ratio is 2.45
Moderna has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of 38.6 based on its trailing 12 month price to earnings (EPS) of $2.82 per share
Its forward P/E ratio is -21.5, based on its forward earnings per share (EPS) of $-5.06
MRNA has a Price to Earnings Growth (PEG) ratio of 0.58, which shows the company is very undervalued compared to its earnings growth estimates.
Over the last four years, Moderna has averaged free cash flows of $4.15 Billion, which on average grew 0.0%
MRNA's gross profit margins have averaged 51.4 % over the last four years and during this time they had a growth rate of -0.0 % and a coefficient of variability of 26.3 %.
Moderna has moved -22.0% over the last year compared to 15.0% for the S&P 500 -- a difference of -37.0%
MRNA has an average analyst rating of buy and is -35.5% away from its mean target price of $168.8 per share

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