Success or Failure of NFX6 Apr 2019 21:54
Jay, I thought you’d ‘topped up ‘ enough already?!
Some good posts...enjoyed reading everyone.
Aim, just a couple of comments about statements like “this should never have been under 3p”...and “This won’t fail!”
I agree with Jay (and probably a few more) that this should not have been floated circa £18M and that was on the high side, especially with lengthy timeframes (already the company has been going over 10 years)..
But Market valuation is an unruly beast, based on a mixture of prospects, potential, expertise, time frames and those intangibles such as “sexiness” of product and sentiment.
Personally, I think this has been very well valued over the last year or so..It hasn’t proven any human prospects as of yet, has had a few small delays, is certainly not ‘sexy’ (yet!), and sentiment is hard to maintain on potential alone.
We’ve certainly got the expertise, we’ve got the potential...but the next few months will see whether it does actually deliver..
So....getting on to the phrase “It can’t fail”..
Well, it certainly can “fail”..
Failure will be if it doesn’t reach a certain relativity of success compared to the parent drug. So, I agree, that absolute failure is low risk - notwithstanding the possibility that a massive boost in patient absorption may cause as of yet unknown detrimental effects ..
But, failure can occur by the product not reaching the multiple absorption effect that the Market expects, and therefore other potential products are killed-off. And the Market, as Aim stated, expects us to get to 80% maybe..
So, let’s say we achieve 10 to 50% extra absorption, will this lead Mr Market to believe that licenses , based on future sales, will be signed? Will it believe that extra drug costs to patients and health bodies are worth the relatively minimal (compared to expected) absorption and longevity. Will drug companies then want this over existing drugs? Will the cost/patient experience profile endorse that?
That’s failure :
That the Market expects a certain efficacy and success, and trials don’t come up to expectation.
That’s why there is risk, and that’s why we’re at where we’re at.