Vaxart: Investment Case For An Oral COVID Vaccine Not So Hard To Swallow

Dec. 09, 2021 2:41 PM ETVaxart, Inc. (VXRT) StockVXRT9 Comments

Summary

  • Vaxart is the oral vaccine developer with COVID, RSV, HPV, influenza and Norovirus candidates in its pipeline.
  • The company faces litigation after allegedly misinforming the market about being selected for Operation Warp Speed last year.
  • A COVID vaccine success is not out of the question, however - if the company can prove in a large scale Phase 2 trial, it can generate neutralising antibodies.
  • Norovirus looks a possibility also, as does influenza. Results have been positive, but Vaxart needs to find a more mainstream audience.
  • The novelty of an oral vaccine is surprising given the obvious benefits. Vaxart is about the only way to place a bet on its success.
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Investment Thesis

It has been several months since I last posted on Vaxart (NASDAQ:VXRT), so I wanted to provide an update for those interested in this most enigmatic of companies. The oral vaccine developer is still an outlying company, with

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