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The novel coronavirus has wrecked the economy and caused unbelievable chaos for many Americans. While the government is doing its best to mitigate the negative impacts of stay-at-home orders, it’s clear that a bigger solution is needed. Preventative measures such as mask wearing and contact tracing are helpful, but they’re not a solution. To get back to normal, we need a treatment or vaccine. Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA) stock offers investors one such possibility, as the company is the leading vaccine developer targeting the virus.
The company’s efforts recently earned a high form of validation. The company scored a massive contract with the government to develop the vaccine. In fact, the $483 million the U.S. government gave to Moderna earlier this month may be the most fruitful “bailout” of them all.
After all, the government just wrote a $50 billion check to the U.S. airline industry, and we already know where that money will be going: dollar-bill heaven. Moderna, by contrast, has the potential to spin its handout into gold.
MRNA Stock: A Wise Half-Billion-Dollar Investment
The $483 billion will help Moderna develop and test its promising Covid-19 vaccine. While plenty of biotech companies are racing to formulate a vaccine, most are unproven companies with tiny market capitalizations and little track record of commercial success. It would be great if a smaller player, like Inovio (NASDAQ:INO) or Novavax (NASDAQ:NVAX), comes up with a working vaccine quickly, but they are longer shots at success.
Moderna, by contrast, has a market cap of nearly $20 billion. It’s a well-respected leader in the field. So it’s no accident that the U.S. government chose them as the key partner for a $483 million Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) grant to expedite the company’s Covid-19 vaccine development.
Editor's Note: Click here for the full story and to see why Moderna is going to continue to prosper.
#1 5G Stock To Buy Now
There’s a lot of hype surrounding 5G these days…
And for good reason. It’s a breakthrough technology that’s going to change the world and make early investors a fortune.
But investing legend Louis Navellier says there’s only one 5G stock you should be paying attention to right now.
This is coming from the analyst who…
- Found Microsoft when it was trading for 39 cents.
- Cisco at 50 cents.
- Qualcomm at $2.45.
- Adobe at $1.91.
- Apple when the legendary software company was trading for $1.38.
- Amazon when it was just a $46 stock (today it’s over $1,885).
And MarketWatch said he was “the advisor who recommended Google before anyone else.”
Now Louis’s pounding the table on a 5G stock he recently uncovered.
He’s put together a presentation with the full details which you can view right here.
