RE: AVA600?21 Dec 2020 20:58
Thats only if they get the contracts though arnold. Novacyt, which is the only comparison I can make, on course for likely revenues of between £400m and £800m depending on phase 2 from Feb 2020 to Feb 2021 and other sales that have been made but figures not public, and thats with a current £642m mcap (won't know exact numbers until July). Granted SP would have been over £15 now before pfizer torpedoed covid stocks. So applying same logic to avacta, lets assume bams, lft news pushed SP to dizzying heights of £2.50, anything less than £600m in contracts could see it tumbling down imo, which is what happened to nova in May. I don't know what LFT manufacturing capacity is, but lets say 10m a month, lft £10 a test, its a minimum of 6 months from approval to create £600m worth of products. Other issue is nova designed, manufactured and distributed the majority themselves, few 3rd parties taking a cut and they've confirmed 60% profit margin. Avacta's could be half that, then that probably means £900m+ in contracts / sales from bams, lft etc required based on covid stock logic demonstrated with nova. Might seem pessimistic but then the numbers nova are making are astronomical compared to 12 months back and their SP went under £7 recently. Yes, avacta has fingers in other pies, but ava hasn't even been announced yet, and I'm not expecting revenues from that for years. So yeah, if price does shoot up when the RNS of our dreams lands, don't expect it to stay there for long