AstraZeneca, Oxford start work on Omicron-specific COVID vaccine

  • Researchers at AstraZeneca (AZN) and Oxford University have begun work on developing a COVID-19 vaccine that would specifically target the Omicron variant, the Financial Times reports.
  • An Oxford official told the newspaper that the university and company have taken preliminary steps on development.
  • Although AstraZeneca's vaccine is approved in the European Union for the primary series, the company has not applied for use as a booster.
  • In the U.S., Pfizer (NYSE:PFE), Moderna (NASDAQ:MRNA), and Johnson & Johnson (NYSE:JNJ) are all researching Omicron-specific vaccines.

    For this year the company, located in Cambridge revenue will be around 35.82 billion GBp. This is according to the average of the analysts' estimates. This is hugely more than 2021's revenue of 26.62 billion GBp.

    Historical revenues and results Astrazeneca plus estimates 2021

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    The analysts expect for 2021 a net profit of 7.04 billion GBp. According to most of the analysts the company will have a profit per share for this book year of 515 GBp. The price-earnings-ratio equals 16.72.

    Huge dividend Astrazeneca

    Analysts expect a dividend of 282 GBp per share. Thus the dividend yield equals 3.27 percent. The average dividend yield of the pharmaceutical companies is a limited 1.37 percent.

    Based on the current number of shares Astrazeneca 's market capitalization equals 11298.82 billion GBp. 23

    At 10.23 the stock trades 0.95 percent higher at 8611 GBp.

    Historical stock prices Astrazeneca2007-2021

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