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Moderna, Inc.Opportunity Rank #321(MRNA) Intrinsic Value & DCF Analysis (2026)

Sector: Healthcare

Current Price

$51.28

Last updated: Mar 24, 2026

Price vs Intrinsic Value

$51.28
Price
$3.97
Intrinsic Value
Overvalued by 92%MOS: $3.18

Fundamental Score

4/100
Bearish

Weighted across 6 signals

Narrative Score

57/100
Improving

No change vs previous

The intrinsic value of Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) is estimated at $3.97 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $51.28, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a -31.76% long-term growth rate and a 9.54% discount rate, reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

The intrinsic value of Moderna, Inc. (MRNA) is estimated at $3.97 per share based on a 10-year discounted cash flow (DCF) analysis. At the current price of $51.28, the stock appears overvalued relative to its projected cash flow fundamentals. This estimate assumes a -31.76% long-term growth rate and a 9.54% discount rate, reflecting expected future free cash flow and cost of capital.

Valuation Details

$3.97
-92.26% downside
20% margin of safety: $3.18
Years: 10Growth Rate: -31.76%
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Capital Efficiency

Average Quarterly ROIC
-12.95%
Cost of Capital (estimated)7%
Value StatusUnderperforming Capital

The company is earning below its required return. This may indicate inefficient use of capital or excess cash that isn't being reinvested.

Complete historical ROIC is available with
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Fundamental Details

4/100
BearishWeighted across 6 signals
DCF Discount
92.3% premium to price
0
FCF Yield
-8.1% trailing FCF yield
0
ROIC vs WACC
ROIC -12.9% vs WACC 7.0% (-1.8x)
0
Net Debt / FCF
2.8x net debt to FCF
7
Buybacks
Share count growing
30
FCF CAGR (5Y)
-80.7% 5Y FCF CAGR (adjusted)
0
Pressure from: DCF Discount, FCF Yield.

Narrative Details

57/100
Improving
Vs 6-Month Baseline:Low (6th pct)Weighted across 6 recent drivers
Trend: Deteriorating downConfidence: 85%Updated: 2h ago
Sources: 147 (143 News · 4 Analyst)
Drivers(last 30 days)
23 regulatory scrutiny+0.3
105 news sentiment+0.3
10 legal risk+0.1
4 earnings beat+0.0
Upgrade headlines+0.0
4 analyst reiterations0.0

Investment Coach

Updated 18h ago
AVOIDConfidence: 89%
Thesis
Moderna, Inc. is significantly overvalued with an estimated fair value 150.7% below its current price, supported by weak fundamentals and negative free cash flow yield. The company's returns are trailing its cost of capital, indicating poor capital efficiency and financial health.
Key Risk
Continued deterioration in operational performance and failure to improve return on invested capital relative to the weighted average cost of capital could further depress valuation and investor confidence.
Signals To Watch
  • Price moves to at least a mid-teens discount to fair value
  • Sustained improvement in ROIC versus WACC spread
  • Meaningful shifts in narrative trend and score direction
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Historical Growth Rates
Free Cash Flow- - -Trend CAGR: -31.76%5 Year CAGR (Adjusted): -85.49%

Free Cash Flow (in millions)

TTM2025202420232022202120202019201820172016
-$1,650-$1,681-$1,953-$2,411$5,381$13,904$2,094-$427-$225-$273$100

How Intrinziq Estimates Fair Value

Intrinziq estimates Moderna, Inc.'s intrinsic value using a discounted cash flow (DCF) model based on free cash flow trends and a market-based discount rate. The model projects future cash flows over ten years and discounts them using a market return assumption to estimate fair value.

Moderna, Inc.Healthcare

Moderna, Inc., a biotechnology company, discovers, develops, and commercializes messenger RNA therapeutics and vaccines for the treatment of infectious diseases, immuno-oncology, rare diseases, cardiovascular diseases, and auto-immune diseases in the United States, Europe, and internationally. Its respiratory vaccines include COVID-19, flu, respiratory syncytial virus, Endemic HCoV, and hMPV+PIV3 vaccines; latent vaccines comprise cytomegalovirus, epstein-barr virus, human immunodeficiency virus, herpes simplex virus, and varicella-zoster virus vaccines; and public health vaccines consists of Zika and Nipah vaccines. The company also offers systemic secreted and cell surface therapeutics; cancer vaccines, such as personalized cancer, KRAS, and checkpoint vaccines; intratumoral immuno-oncology products; localized regenerative, systemic intracellular, and inhaled pulmonary therapeutics. It has strategic alliances with AstraZeneca PLC; Merck & Co., Inc.; Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated; Vertex Pharmaceuticals (Europe) Limited; Carisma Therapeutics, Inc.; Metagenomi, Inc.; the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority; Institute for Life Changing Medicines; and The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, as well as a collaboration and license agreement with Chiesi Farmaceutici S.P.A. 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.