RE: Great to see8 May 2020 12:40
I don't think £8 x 8m of sales for 9 months has been priced in here. I think that it is not enough to say that they are scaling up to 8 million+ tests a month, there needs to be evidence that the orders will be fulfilled. The contract with the UK government/DHSC was significant and IMO it is probably the reason the share price has finally stabilised around the £4.20 mark. I actually think many investors will have been disappointed with the last RNS, especially as it left it somewhat open to interpretation as to how much of the £90mn sales/contracts to date were from DHSC and therefore how much from elsewhere. I also picked up what the french co founder said - something along the lines of 'we have the test and we're ready to go'. In other words we have not sold all our supply right now/booked up for the foreseeable. We need to hope a major contract there is struck soon.
There's also the question of OEM agreements. For now it's pure speculation and until clarification from management it will remain that way.
Of course the value of the company is pretty speculative right now but it's difficult to argue it's wildly overvalued unless you think i) Demand won't meet our supply, ii) the direct to PCR tests will make no difference to profit margins/won't be needed, iii) there are no OEM agreements in place behind the scenes, iv) this pandemic will be behind us by christmas time. All four things could turn out to be true but I think the odds are in our favour. That's the risk that comes with investing. I think we'll see £6 a share before we see £3 and so for me it's a BUY.