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BEAM vs MRNA

Side-by-side comparison of Beam Therapeutics Inc. (BEAM) and Moderna Inc. (MRNA): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both BEAM and MRNA operate in Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances) (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • MRNA is the larger of the two at $18.82B, about 6.2x BEAM ($3.02B).
  • Over the past year, BEAM is up 62.6% and MRNA is up 71.7% - MRNA leads by 9.1 points.
  • MRNA has been more active in the news (12 items in the past 4 weeks vs 8 for BEAM).
  • Both have 25 recent analyst ratings on file.
PerformanceBEAM+62.59%MRNA+71.67%
2025-06-09+0.00%2026-06-08
MetricBEAMMRNA
Company
Beam Therapeutics Inc.
Moderna Inc.
Price
$29.51+0.56%
$48.24+1.75%
Market cap
$3.02B
$18.82B
1M return
-6.14%
-0.58%
1Y return
+62.59%
+71.67%
Industry
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Exchange
NASDAQ
NASDAQ
IPO
2020
2018
News (4w)
8
12
Recent ratings
25
25
BEAM

Beam Therapeutics Inc.

Beam Therapeutics Inc., a biotechnology company, develops precision genetic medicines for patients suffering from serious diseases in the United States. The company is developing BEAM-101 for the treatment of sickle cell disease and beta thalassemia; BEAM-102 for the treatment of sickle cell disease; and BEAM-201, an allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor T cell for the treatment of relapsed/refractory T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia. It also develops therapies for alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and glycogen storage disorder 1a; and therapies for ocular and central nervous system disorders. The company has a strategic alliance with Boston Children's Hospital; a research and clinical collaboration agreement with Magenta Therapeutics, Inc.; and a research collaboration with the Institute of Molecular and Clinical Ophthalmology Basel. It also has a research collaboration with Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to apply base editing technology for discovering new treatments for complement-driven diseases. Beam Therapeutics Inc. was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

MRNA

Moderna Inc.

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, develops therapeutics and vaccines based on messenger RNA for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and auto-immune diseases. As of March 9, 2021, the company had 13 programs in clinical trials and a total of 24 development programs in six modalities comprising prophylactic vaccines, cancer vaccines, intratumoral immuno-oncology, localized regenerative therapeutics, systemic secreted and cell surface therapeutics, and systemic intracellular therapeutics. The company has strategic alliances with AstraZeneca PLC, Merck & Co., Inc., Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated, Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited, the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, the National Institutes of Health, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Moderna, Inc. also has collaborations with Lonza Ltd. for the manufacture of COVID-19 vaccine; and Catalent Inc., Laboratorios Farmacéuticos Rovi, S.A., Recipharm, and Lonza Group for fill-finish manufacturing of its COVID-19 vaccine candidate, as well as Aldevron, LLC for supporting COVID-19 vaccine and additional programs in company's clinical development pipeline. The company was formerly known as Moderna Therapeutics, Inc. and changed its name to Moderna, Inc. in August 2018. Moderna, Inc. was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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