
Novavax Inc is a biotechnology business with stocks listed in the US. Novavax shares (NVAX) are listed on the NASDAQ and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Its last market close was US$5.57 – an increase of 2.01% over the previous week. Here's how to invest if you're based in Australia.
How to buy shares in Novavax
- Compare share trading platforms. To buy shares in a company listed in the US from Australia you'll need to find a trading platform that offers access to US stock markets. Look for a platform with low brokerage and foreign exchange fees.
- Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, which will typically include your ID and tax file number. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
- Search for Novavax. Find the share by name or ticker symbol: NVAX. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment that matches your financial goals.
- Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Novavax reaches your desired price. To spread out your risk, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying using consistent intervals and amounts.
- Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of US$5.57, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimise risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Novavax, depending on your broker.
- Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Novavax. Optimise your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights.
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Novavax stock price (NASDAQ:NVAX)
Use our graph to track the performance of NVAX stocks over time.Have Novavax's shares ever split?
Novavax's shares were split on a 1:20 basis on 10 May 2019. So if you had owned 20 shares the day before the split, the next day you would own 1 share. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Novavax shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 1900% higher share price could have impacted the market appetite for Novavax shares which in turn could have impacted Novavax's share price.
Novavax shares at a glance
52-week range | US$5.3 - US$18.55 |
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50-day moving average | US$6.7004 |
200-day moving average | US$7.5833 |
Target price | US$19.6 |
PE ratio | N/A |
Dividend yield | US$0 (0.93%) |
Earnings per share (TTM) | US$-6.23 |
Use the fields above to explore the returns from a historical investment. Please refer to the charts further up this page to see performance over 5 years, or other periods. Past performance doesn't indicate future results. Capital is at risk.
Novavax price performance over time
Historical closes compared with the last close of $5.57
1 week (2023-11-27) | 2.01% |
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1 month (2023-11-03) | -21.10% |
3 months (2023-09-01) | -32.16% |
6 months (2023-06-02) | -26.90% |
1 year (2022-12-02) | -66.28% |
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2 years (2021-12-03) | -96.53% |
3 years (2020-12-04) | -95.59% |
5 years (2018-12-04) | -86.28% |
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Is it a good time to buy Novavax stock?
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Novavax share price volatility
Over the last 12 months, Novavax's shares have ranged in value from as little as US$5.3 up to US$18.55. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".
Beta measures a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NASDAQ average) beta is 1, while Novavax's is 1.725. This would suggest that Novavax's shares are more volatile than the average for this exchange and represent, relatively speaking, a higher risk (but potentially also market-beating returns).
Novavax financials
Revenue TTM | US$1 billion |
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Gross profit TTM | US$-156,045,000 |
Return on assets TTM | -19.51% |
Return on equity TTM | -898.2% |
Profit margin | -52.29% |
Book value | -5.713 |
Market capitalisation | US$648.6 million |
TTM: trailing 12 months
Novavax share dividends
We're not expecting Novavax to pay a dividend over the next 12 months.
Novavax overview
Novavax, Inc., a biotechnology company, that promotes improved health by discovering, developing, and commercializing vaccines to protect against serious infectious diseases. It offers vaccine platform that combines a recombinant protein approach, nanoparticle technology, and its patented Matrix-M adjuvant to enhance the immune response. It focuses on urgent health challenges, which is evaluating vaccines for COVID-19, influenza, and COVID-19 and influenza combined. The company is commercializing a COVID-19 vaccine, NVX-CoV2373 under the brand names of Nuvaxovid, Covovax, and Novavax COVID-19 Vaccine, Adjuvanted for adult and adolescent populations as a primary series and for both homologous and heterologous booster indications. It is also focusing on products candidates for respiratory syncytial virus and malaria. Novavax, Inc. was incorporated in 1987 and is headquartered in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
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