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What is AstraZeneca PLC?

AstraZeneca plc is a company that operates in the healthcare, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The global company headquarters were moved to Cambridge in the United Kingdom in 2016 while some of the research and development centres are located in Cambridge, Gaithersburg (United States) and Gothenburg in Sweden. The company has established a network of production facilities in more than a dozen countries with multiple research sites and sales activities in many countries. AstraZeneca plc was formed after the merger in 1999 between Astra AB of Sweden and Zeneca plc from the United Kingdom.

The company's business involves the design, research, production and sale of pharmaceutical and medical products in eight primary areas such as oncology, respiratory, central nervous system, cardiovascular, pain control and anaesthesia, gastrointestinal and infection. AstraZeneca is considered to be among the leading companies in the pharmaceutical industry. Some of the well-known drugs produced by AstraZeneca are Symbicort, Crestor, Tagrisso, Nexium, Pulmicort, Farxiga, Brilinta, Faslodex, Zoladex and Seloken.

AstraZeneca plc is among the top pharmaceutical companies that took the challenge to develop a vaccine to tackle the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic. The vaccine was developed in a partnership with the Oxford University and it is referred to as the “Oxford vaccine”. The interim analysis of the clinical trials exhibited average vaccine effectiveness of slightly above 70 per cent while there was also a result that showed 90 per cent protection. It is stated that the AstraZeneca vaccine is cheaper and has simpler storage requirements. This vaccine comes with an acceptable safety record while serious side effects were not reported. It was also announced that the UK government made a pre-order of 100 million doses whereas AstraZeneca announced the possibility to make a couple of billion doses.

AstraZeneca plc is a publicly-traded company listed on the London, Stockholm and New York stock exchanges with a ticker symbol “AZN”. AZN is also a constituent company in multiple indices such as NASDAQ, FTSE 100 Component and NASDAQ Stockholm.

Performance of the AstraZeneca stock price

The merger of two companies which resulted in the creation of the new AstraZeneca plc, was widely accepted by investors and had a positive effect on the share price of both companies. Since then, the AstraZeneca share price went through a multi-year upward movement followed by occasional downward movements. The trendy movements were interrupted by numerous price pullbacks which bounced towards the original trend. Since its inception the highest price was achieved during the first half of July 2020 when the AstraZeneca stock price fluctuated up to $64 (£48). Looking at the fluctuations in the past couple of years, the AstraZeneca share price shows a clearly defined upward movement. During the last half the decade the AstraZeneca stock price was at its lowest level during the same period in January 2017 reaching a value of slightly below $25 (£18.80).

With certain exceptions, the AstraZeneca share price moves in a defined trend with regular pullbacks followed by higher highs or lower lows in the direction of the trend. Also, relevant factors may even cause short-term range-bound movements.

Gaps up or gaps down a couple of per cents may be noticed on the daily price chart. The AstraZeneca share price may be subject to infrequent price gaps of more than 10 per cent. Although price gaps may also be noticed on the weekly price chart, they might not appear as frequent as the number of gaps evident on the daily chart.

Traders may commonly expect a movement of up to 5 per cent in AstraZeneca share price, with occasional movements of more than 5 per cent during the day. The price may go through slightly higher fluctuations during the week.

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