RE: Could @RAH0084’s valuations be >10x overstated..?7 Dec 2022 10:50
Rah, aren't these take over values as a multiple of future peak sales? Indicating that if you have future peak sales of 1bn (to keep the sums simple) then a future owner is willing to pay a range for 3 to 15bn for that revenue, with a middle ground of c9bn. And that's priced for a drug, not a platform.
Starbright, to me that's quite reasonable, as a take over is a very likely end game. And it's important to note and reiterate that it's agreed future sales, in some instances they haven't been due to appear for many years so are estimates. For a future owner that would be 100% of revenue, and as others have pointed out if we don't get brought out then it'll be a pe ratio exercise based on a high profit margin and whatever percentage of the market we can grab. Not being brought out however means we need a lot of infrastructure to manage the production, distribution, support etc. Even with this a high pe can be justified if the market is growing, which given a choice between side effects and no side effects, as clinician you'd opt for no side effects so it would grow. Again this is for one drug not a platform, put platform revenue and profits into the sums and the result is reasonable.
Yes pricing action isn't supporting it at present, but its based on what solid information and fundamentals are visible now.