Moderna stock crashed Monday after the firm slashed its outlooks for 2024 and 2025, and announced an expanded cost-cutting initiative. The post Moderna Stock Crashes 21% After Covid Vaccine Maker Slashes 2024-25 Guidance appeared first on Investor's Business Daily.
Moderna Inc. MRNA stock plunged on Monday after the company announced business updates and progress across its pipeline. Moderna says it enters 2025 with a focus on a prioritized portfolio addressing respiratory viruses, rare diseases, oncology, and latent and other viruses.
Moderna lowered its 2025 sales guidance by roughly $1 billion, as it continues to cut costs. The biotech company now expects 2025 revenue to come in between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion, most of which will come in the second half of the year.
Moderna's stock tumbles after a disappointing outlook for revenue and the need to accelerate its cost-cutting plan.
The company said Monday that it expects 2025 revenue of between $1.5 billion and $2.5 billion.
Moderna cut its 2025 sales forecast by $1 billion on Monday, hurt by a slow launch of its respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) shot and weak demand for COVID-19 vaccines.
Achieved 2024 product sales of $3.0 to 3.1 billion (unaudited) and an ending cash balance of approximately $9.5 billion (unaudited) Updates 2025 expected revenue range to $1.5 to 2.5 billion Expects to reduce 2025 cash cost expenses by $1.0 billion with a plan for additional 2026 cost reductions of $0.5 billion Updates 2025 expected ending cash balance to approximately $6.0 billion Anticipates milestones across 10 prioritized programs, including up to three potential 2025 approvals and six registrational data readouts CAMBRIDGE, MA / ACCESSWIRE / January 13, 2025 / Moderna, Inc. (NASDAQ:MRNA) today announced business updates and progress across its pipeline of mRNA medicines. Moderna enters 2025 with a focus on a prioritized portfolio addressing respiratory viruses, rare diseases, oncology, and latent and other viruses where there is unmet need.
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The stock price of Moderna saw a 12% jump on Tuesday, January 7, amid rising cases of Covid-19 and flu in the U.S. Along with Moderna, stocks of other vaccine makers also saw an uptick. Novavax was up 11%, while BioNTech ADR was up 5%.
After undergoing years of stock market decline as reporting and awareness about the COVID-19 pandemic subsided, major vaccine stocks received a major, if grim, boost in early 2025.
Moderna (MRNA) witnessed a jump in share price last session on above-average trading volume. The latest trend in earnings estimate revisions for the stock doesn't suggest further strength down the road.
Moderna (MRNA) shares soared Tuesday as investors placed bets that the pharmaceutical giant's development of an H5N1 bird flu vaccine could boost sales after the first death linked to the disease was reported in the U.S this week.