Investors who owned Inovio Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ: INO) and held the stock through the year have been well rewarded for taking a position in the high-risk, high-reward biotech.
A $1,000 investment in Inovio at the beginning of January is currently worth $5,133, over a 400% increase in less than 10 months.
As the pandemic started, Inovio moved fairly quickly to design a vaccine , INO-4800, that could potentially protect people against the novel coronavirus. The company received some outside funding from the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations , the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation , and the Department of Defense .
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If You Invested $1,000 in Inovio Pharmaceuticals in January, This Is How Much You'd Have Now