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Shares of Moderna Inc. slid 5.4% to $54.82 on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the NASDAQ Composite Index rising 1.0% to 25,373.85 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average rising 0.5% to 52,485.03.

Moderna Inc. closed 36.0% below its 52-week high of $85.60, which the company reached on July 6th.

The stock underperformed when compared to some of its peers, as Johnson & Johnson rose 0.2% to $256.35, Pfizer Inc. rose 0.4% to $25.01, and Gilead Sciences Inc. fell 0.82% to $130.21.

Trading volume totaled 7.8 million, compared to the 50-day average of 7.1 million.

Data source: Dow Jones Market Data, FactSet