RE: Modelling profits from the rapid LFT23 May 2020 13:27
Here we go! These are the inputs we need:
- Probability rapid covid-19 test is successfully released to mass demand: Agree binary, so model on 100% - if it doesn’t work then there will be a lot of hopes dashed!
- Average price per test sold (bearing in mind bulk orders may be heavily discounted): £12.... if the UK government ordered 68million if these tests and devised a testing strategy to have all residents test within a given window then we could potentially get close to eradicating Covid in this country for in the region of £800 million... given the covid borrowing is 2bn a day at the moment, this is a bargain for a 100% accurate test. At this volume, I would suspect they would want a discount of 50%!
- Cost of manufacturing per test: £1-£2
- Other costs per test e.g. distribution, admin: £2
- Avacta % of profit share with Medusa19: 60%
- Number of months of mass demand: globally, 12
- Average # sold per month of mass demand: Globally 50 million / month