RE: WELL, WELL, WELL, WHAT DO WE HAVE HERE?!!!7 Jun 2026 14:54
Right, so the Ringlet Therapeutics discovery just now is the closest thing to a smoking gun we've seen outside of an actual RNS.
Companies House confirms Dan Gooding was quietly appointed director of Ringlet Therapeutics Ltd on February 20th 2026... that's 19 days before the March placing that told us "due diligence already underway." Ringlet is a fibrosis-focused therapeutics company backed by Deep Science Ventures and General Inception, serious UK venture builders, not some shell company.
Their website literally says "Fibroinflammatory resolution to restore homeostasis and cure disease", which you can imagine is the scientific mechanism of NXP002. They also just received a UKRI grant specifically for "engineering next-generation proteins to unlock a derisked anti-fibrotic therapy." Derisked. Their word. Our word. Same disease. Same mechanism.
You don't quietly join the board of a fibrosis company, backed by serious VC money, while simultaneously running NFX through its most advanced partnering process ever, unless you have very strong visibility on what's coming. Directors don't build next-generation infrastructure for a story they think is going nowhere.
Now let's talk numbers. IMM went 14x from 1.39p to 19.4p with absolutely zero deal signed, just partnership discussion language. NFX has "due diligence already underway" confirmed in writing, £1m deployed to answer a specific partner's scientific questions, science delivered publicly on May 28th, and now Gooding building fibrosis infrastructure in the background. If IMM did 14x on hot air, what does NFX do on an actual signed Boehringer deal?
My roughy mathy maths... :) Current price 0.165p. Market cap £4.3m. Boehringer just paid €407m for a preclinical asset with zero orphan designation 24 days ago. They paid $448m for another one in December. They paid €45m upfront alone for Bridge Bio's preclinical IPF asset in 2019, which had weaker data and no orphan designation than NXP002 has today. Conservative upfront for NXP002, call it £12-15m. On a £4.3m market cap company.
Day one re-rating to £100-200m market cap. At 2.61 billion shares that's roughly 3.8p to 7.7p. Call it 4-8p on day one. 20-30x from here. If the Ringlet platform narrative spreads in week two and institutional money arrives, it could go to 7-12p within a fortnight. I'd say it isn't fantasy, it's market cap arithmetic on a company that just became a platform play rather than a single asset story.
And that's before anyone prices in NXP004, the patented improved form of AstraZeneca's own Lynparza cancer drug, forecast 9.7bn dolldolls annual sales by 2028, patent protection to 2041. That conversation with AZ comes after NXP002 signs. Second RNS. Second re-rating.
For those who say we're/I'm ramping.... mathematical/hypothetical based on what we see online isn't ramping. The man running this company just told us everything we need to know, not in an RNS, but in a Companies House filing. Maybe tuesday 7am no