Moderna is a biotechnology company focusing on messenger RNA (mRNA) therapeutics and vaccines to create medicines. mRNA medicines are designed to direct the body's cells to produce intracellular, membrane, or secreted proteins that have a therapeutic or preventive benefit with the potential to address a range of diseases. Co. is developing therapeutics and vaccines for infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, autoimmune diseases and cardiovascular diseases. Co. has a collaboration agreement with the Institute of Life Changing Medicines to develop a mRNA therapeutic (mRNA-3351) for Crigler-Najjar Syndrome Type 1.
When researching a stock like Moderna, many investors are the most familiar with Fundamental Analysis — looking at a company's balance sheet, earnings, revenues, and what's happening in that company's underlying business. Investors who use Fundamental Analysis to identify good stocks to buy or sell can also benefit from MRNA Technical Analysis to help find a good entry or exit point. Technical Analysis is blind to the fundamentals and looks only at the trading data for MRNA stock — the real life supply and demand for the stock over time — and examines that data in different ways. One of those ways is to calculate a Simpe Moving Average ("SMA") by looking back a certain number of days. One of the most popular "longer look-backs" is the MRNA 200 day moving average ("MRNA 200 DMA"), while one of the most popular "shorter look-backs" is the MRNA 50 day moving average ("MRNA 50 DMA"). A chart showing both of these popular moving averages is shown on this page for Moderna. Comparing two moving averages against each other can be a useful visualization tool: by calculating the difference between the MRNA 200 DMA and the MRNA 50 DMA, we get a moving average convergence divergence indicator ("MRNA MACD"). The MRNA MACD chart, in conjunction with the chart of the moving averages, basically helps in visualizing how the moving averages are showing convergence (moving closer together), or divergence (moving farther apart). |