American depositary receipts (ADRs) of BioNTech (BNTX) fell Monday after the COVID-19 vaccine maker's second-quarter loss quadrupled on falling demand for the shots, and as it ended an agreement with biotech firm Genmab to develop a lung cancer drug.
BioNTech SE's stock BNTX, +1.65% fell 4% early Monday, after the company's second-quarter earnings fell short of estimates amid a continued slide in sales of its COVID-19 vaccine. The company had a net loss of 807.8 million euros ($883.5 million), or $3.36 a share, for the quarter, wider than the los of EUR109.4 million, or 79 cents a share, posted in the year-earlier period.
Losses at Germany's BioNTech quadrupled year-on-year in the second quarter, the company said on Monday, as it banks on a strategy shift towards new cancer treatments following a sharp drop-off in sales of its COVID-19 vaccine.
COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech's cancer drug candidate BNT111 showed significant improvement in the response rate in patients with advanced melanoma during a Phase 2 trial, the German company said on Tuesday.
Germany's BioNTech SE said in a regulatory filing on Monday the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a partial clinical hold on an early-stage study of its experimental cancer drug.
COVID-19 vaccine maker BioNTech won up to $145 million in funding from a global coalition against infectious diseases to build a production network in African countries for messenger-RNA based shots.
H5N1 bird flu was detected this week in Michigan and Australia. It's the first detection in humans since March, when news of an outbreak in cattle emerged.