Here is the valuation.22 Sep 2020 00:02
On the basis of £1400 revenue per patient, I have taken maximum profit level as 21% after all taxes and all costs (including marketing, debt interest etc) which give around £295 per patient. This has to be a minimal margin for a lot of companies. The health provider in western economies will know that if the patient stay is reduced by 3 days then half their cost is recovered if they are like an NHS provider.
I have then taken a figure of 20 patients in all of the UK either having COPD or Covid-19 requiring treatment every day in the NHS in a ratio of 1 COPD with 2 Covid-19 at the present time. I have multiplied this figure by 25 to give a global market (UK 4%). I have assumed low rate of market penetration for the product as other therapies and vaccines may be available and allows for swings during the year where it may be far higher and when it may be lower.
20 patients x 365 days x £295 = £2,153,500 UK net profit
£2.153M x 25 = £53.825M entire global market profit
53.825M/ 150M shares = 35.88p and at 10 PE rate gives a share value of 358.8p For treating a total of 500 patients per day.
As I mentioned before if 1/3 are COPD patients numbering 166 it gives a non-Covid value of 119p per share for the stock as on current market share price. So the current premium for Covid is about 61p a share if it were on the market. In future years the company would need to grow the COPD market to replace dwindling needs from Covid-19 patient numbers.
The key to the real valuation is the route to market. A large pharmaceutical company may take on more costs and have a deeper market penetration and get a better return on their costs. A smaller provider will have a lower margin and may offer a lower price to market the product for Synairgen. Overall it is interesting the broker arrived at a 360p price which equates to the 500 patients per year target.