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Shares of Moderna Inc. advanced 4.8% to $196.48 on what proved to be an all-around rough trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index falling 0.2% to 27,538.69 and Dow Jones Industrial Average falling 0.7% to 51,179.87.
Moderna Inc. closed 7.4% short of its 52-week high of $212.22, which the company achieved on October 6th.
The stock outperformed some of its peers, as Johnson & Johnson rose 1.4% to $258.45, Pfizer Inc. rose 1.8% to $28.00, and Gilead Sciences Inc. rose 1.82% to $146.85.
Trading volume totaled 14.6 million, compared to the 50-day average of 20.7 million.
Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet