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MRNA vs PLX

Side-by-side comparison of Moderna Inc. (MRNA) and Protalix BioTherapeutics Inc. (DE) (PLX): market cap, price performance, sector, and recent activity on the wire.

Summary

  • Both MRNA and PLX operate in Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances) (Health Care), so they compete in similar markets.
  • MRNA is the larger of the two at $18.72B, about 110.1x PLX ($170.0M).
  • Over the past year, MRNA is up 77.4% and PLX is up 35.4% - MRNA leads by 42.1 points.
  • MRNA has been more active in the news (25 items in the past 4 weeks vs 5 for PLX).
  • MRNA has more recent analyst coverage (25 ratings vs 0 for PLX).
PerformanceMRNA+77.44%PLX+35.37%
2025-05-30+0.00%2026-05-29
MetricMRNAPLX
Company
Moderna Inc.
Protalix BioTherapeutics Inc. (DE)
Price
$47.18-0.82%
$2.10-0.24%
Market cap
$18.72B
$170.0M
1M return
+3.20%
-0.71%
1Y return
+77.44%
+35.37%
Industry
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Biotechnology: Biological Products (No Diagnostic Substances)
Exchange
NASDAQ
AMEX
IPO
2018
News (4w)
25
5
Recent ratings
25
0
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.

PLX

Protalix BioTherapeutics Inc. (DE)

Protalix BioTherapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development and commercialization of recombinant therapeutic proteins based on its proprietary ProCellEx plant cell-based protein expression system in Israel, Brazil, rest of Latin America, and internationally. The company offers Elelyso for the treatment of Gaucher disease. Its product pipeline comprises PRX-102, a therapeutic protein candidate, which is in phase III clinical trials for the treatment of Fabry diseases; PRX-110, a proprietary plant cell recombinant form of human deoxyribonuclease I that has completed phase IIa clinical trials for the treatment of cystic fibrosis; PRX-115, a plant cell-expressed recombinant PEGylated Uricase for the treatment of gout; and PRX-119, a plant cell-expressed PEGylated recombinant human DNase I product candidate for the treatment of NETs-related diseases. The company has agreements and partnerships with Pfizer; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz (Fiocruz); and Chiesi Farmaceutici S.p.A. The company was founded in 1993 and is headquartered in Karmiel, Israel.

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