Unlocking the Essentials of Moderna Stock (MRNA)

By Scott Lee • Thursday, March 27 09:57 • 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 $31.31? Only time will tell. The information below will give you a basic idea of what this investment may entail:

Moderna has moved -70.5% over the last year, and the S&P 500 logged a change of 8.7%
MRNA has an average analyst rating of hold and is -42.26% away from its mean target price of $54.22 per share
Its trailing earnings per share (EPS) is $-9.28
Moderna has a trailing 12 month Price to Earnings (P/E) ratio of -3.4 while the S&P 500 average is 29.3
Its forward earnings per share (EPS) is $-8.7 and its forward P/E ratio is -3.6
The company has a Price to Book (P/B) ratio of 1.11 in contrast to the S&P 500's average ratio of 4.74
Moderna is part of the Health Care sector, which has an average P/E ratio of 26.07 and an average P/B of 3.53
The company has a free cash flow of $-3087624960, which refers to the total sum of all its inflows and outflows of cash over the last quarter
Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, provides messenger RNA medicines in the United States, Europe, and internationally. The company's respiratory vaccines include spikevax, mRESVIA, COVID, RSV, seasonal influenza, combination, and pandemic influenza vaccine; latent vaccines comprise cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster virus, and human immunodeficiency virus vaccines; enteric viruses include norovirus; public health vaccines consist of Zika, Nipah, and Mpox vaccines; and bacterial diseases vaccines, such as lyme vaccines. It also provides oncology therapeutics, such as individualized neoantigen and checkpoint adaptive immune modulation therapy; and rare disease products, including propionic and methylmalonic acidemia, glycogen storage disease type 1a, ornithine transcarbamylase deficiency, phenylketonuria, crigler-najjar syndrome type 1, and cystic fibrosis. It has strategic alliances and collaborations with AstraZeneca; Merck & Co., Inc; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited; Generation Bio Co.; immatics N.V.; Life Edit Therapeutics; Carisma Therapeutics, Inc.; CytomX Therapeutics; Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; Institute for Life Changing Medicines; The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and OpenAI. 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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