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AZN vs MRNA
Side-by-side comparison of AstraZeneca PLC (AZN) and Moderna Inc. (MRNA): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.
Summary
- Both companies sit in the Health Care sector. AZN focuses on Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations, while MRNA focuses on Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances).
- AZN is the larger of the two at $257.54B, about 4.2x MRNA ($61.50B).
- Over the past year, AZN is down 11.7% and MRNA is up 480.0% - MRNA leads by 491.7 points.
- AZN has been more active in the news (25 items in the past 4 weeks vs 14 for MRNA).
- Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
- Company
- AstraZeneca PLC
- Moderna Inc.
- Price
- $166.29+0.10%
- $153.99-2.55%
- Market cap
- $257.54B
- $61.50B
- 1M return
- +0.82%
- -11.64%
- 1Y return
- -11.68%
- +480.00%
- Industry
- Biotechnology: Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
- Exchange
- NYSE
- NASDAQ
- IPO
- 2026
- 2018
- News (4w)
- 25
- 14
- Recent ratings
- 25
- 25
AstraZeneca PLC
AstraZeneca PLC discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes prescription medicines in the areas of oncology, cardiovascular, renal and metabolism, respiratory, infection, neuroscience, and gastroenterology worldwide. The company's marketed products include Tagrisso, Lynparza, Imfinzi, Enhertu, Koselugo, Lumoxiti, Equidacent, Zoladex, Faslodex, Iressa, Arimidex, Casodex/Cosudex, and others for oncology diseases; Onglyza, Bydureon, Lokelma, Byetta, Qtern, Symlin, and others for cardiovascular, renal, and metabolism diseases; and Symbicort, Pulmicort, Fasenra, Daliresp/Daxas, Duaklir, Tudorza/Eklira, Bevespi, Breztri, Anifrolumab, and others for respiratory and immunology diseases. It also offers other medicines and COVID-19 products, including Synagis, Fluenz Tetra/FluMist Quadrivalent, Seroquel IR/Seroquel XR, Vimovo, Movantik/Moventig, Nexium, Losec/Prilosec, and COVID-19 Vaccine AstraZeneca. The company serves primary care and specialty care physicians through distributors and local representative offices. It has a collaboration agreement with Daiichi Sankyo to develop and commercialize DS-1062 for the treatment of trophoblast cell-surface antigen 2 (TROP2) tumor; AliveCor, Inc. to develop non-invasive potassium monitoring solutions; Massachusetts General Hospital to accelerate digital health solutions; Sanguina on smartphone application study for hemoglobin management in patients with anemia of chronic kidney disease; Alchemab to enhance prostate cancer research; and Proteros biostructures GmbH to discover and develop novel small molecules for the treatment of various types of cancer. The company was formerly known as Zeneca Group PLC and changed its name to AstraZeneca PLC in April 1999. It has a collaboration agreement with Regeneron Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to research, develop, and commercialize small molecule medicines for obesity. AstraZeneca PLC was incorporated in 1992 and is headquartered in Cambridge, the United Kingdom.
Moderna Inc.
Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapeutics and vaccines based on messenger RNA for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and auto-immune diseases. As of March 9, 2021, the company had 13 programs in clinical trials and a total of 24 development programs in six modalities comprising prophylactic vaccines, cancer vaccines, intratumoral immuno-oncology, localized regenerative therapeutics, systemic secreted and cell surface therapeutics, and systemic intracellular therapeutics. The company has strategic alliances with AstraZeneca PLC, Merck & Co., Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Moderna, Inc. also has collaborations with Lonza Ltd. for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccine; and Catalent Inc., Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi, S.A., Recipharm, and Lonza Group for fill-finish manufacturing of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, as well as Aldevron, LLC for supporting COVID-19 vaccine and additional programs in company's clinical development pipeline. 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.
Latest AZN
- Enhertu® Recommended for Approval in the EU by CHMP as Adjuvant Treatment for Patients with Residual Disease After Neoadjuvant Treatment for HER2 Positive Early Breast Cancer
- SEC Form 6-K filed by AstraZeneca PLC
- SEC Form 6-K filed by AstraZeneca PLC
- SEC Form 6-K filed by AstraZeneca PLC
- AstraZeneca upgraded by Deutsche Bank
- SEC Form 6-K filed by AstraZeneca PLC
- ENHERTU® (fam-trastuzumab deruxtecan-nxki) demonstrated a median progression-free survival of 14.3 months as 1st-line therapy in patients with HER2-mutant advanced non-small cell lung cancer in DESTINY-Lung04 Phase III trial
- TAGRISSO® (osimertinib) demonstrated unprecedented eight-year landmark survival in early-stage EGFR-mutated lung cancer in ADAURA Phase III trial
- Enhertu® Demonstrated a Median Progression-Free Survival of 14.3 Months as First-Line Therapy in Patients with HER2 Mutant Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer in DESTINY-Lung04 Phase 3 Trial
- Officer Sharma Mani bought $3,249 worth of Ordinary Shares (20 units at $160.57) and was granted 1 units of Ordinary Shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.11% to 19,289 units (SEC Form 4)
Latest MRNA
- President Hoge Stephen exercised 152,905 shares at a strike of $12.21 and sold $11,691,420 worth of shares (80,575 units at $145.10) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, increasing direct ownership by 5% to 1,562,029 units (SEC Form 4)
- A $57 Billion Antiviral Market Is Taking Shape As The World Prepares For The Next Viral Threat
- Chief Financial Officer Mock James M exercised 19,836 shares at a strike of $30.96 and sold $4,685,094 worth of shares (34,836 units at $134.49) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, decreasing direct ownership by 20% to 59,375 units (SEC Form 4)
- Chief Financial Officer Mock James M converted options into 11,797 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 5,704 shares, increasing direct ownership by 9% to 74,375 units (SEC Form 4) (for tax liability)
- Chief Legal Officer Klinger Shannon Thyme covered exercise/tax liability with 5,704 shares and converted options into 11,797 shares, increasing direct ownership by 8% to 81,340 units (SEC Form 4) (withholding obligation)
- Chief Legal Officer Klinger Shannon Thyme sold $485,766 worth of shares (3,471 units at $139.95) as part of a pre-agreed trading plan, covered exercise/tax liability with 1,048 shares and exercised 5,637 shares at a strike of $19.06, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 75,247 units (SEC Form 4) to cover withholding tax
- Chief Financial Officer Mock James M covered exercise/tax liability with 1,197 shares and converted options into 2,475 shares, increasing direct ownership by 2% to 68,282 units (SEC Form 4) (for withholding tax)
- President Hoge Stephen converted options into 9,283 shares and covered exercise/tax liability with 4,489 shares, increasing direct ownership by 0.32% to 1,489,699 units (SEC Form 4) (tax liability)
- Moderna downgraded by Rothschild & Co Redburn with a new price target
- Moderna Inc. filed SEC Form 8-K: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement