What Should Investors Know About Moderna (MRNA) Stock?

By Scott Lee • Friday, February 23 09:46 • Permanent Link

More and more people are talking about Moderna over the last few weeks. Is it worth buying the Biotechnology stock at a price of $99.16? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Moderna has moved -28.6% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 28.1%
MRNA has an average analyst rating of buy and is -16.36% away from its mean target price of $118.56 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-12.33
Moderna has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -8.0 while the S&P 500 average is 15.97
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-4.47 and its forward P/E ratio is -22.2
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 2.73 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 2.95
Moderna is part of the Health Care sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 30.21 and an average P/B of 4.08
MRNA has reported YOY quarterly earnings growth of -84.9% and gross profit margins of -0.4%
The company has a free cash flow of $-2334374912, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
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. Its respiratory vaccines include COVID-19, influenza, respiratory syncytial virus, spikevax, and hMPV/PIV3 vaccines; latent vaccines comprise cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex virus, varicella-zoster virus, and human immunodeficiency virus vaccines; and public health vaccines consists of Zika and Nipah vaccines. The company also offers systemic secreted and cell surface therapeutics; cancer vaccines, such as personalized cancer, KRAS, and checkpoint vaccines; intratumoral immuno-oncology products; localized regenerative, systemic intracellular, and inhaled pulmonary therapeutics. It has strategic alliances and collaborations with AstraZeneca; Merck; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited; Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A.; Metagenomi, Inc.; Carisma Therapeutics, Inc.; CytomX Therapeutics; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; Institute for Life Changing Medicines; and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as a strategic partnership with Caris Life Sciences to advance mRNA-Based oncology therapeutics. The company was formerly known as Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Moderna, Inc. in August 2018. Moderna, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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