Having a Larf!6 Jul 2023 10:35
Because for £80m they will not have to pay $70m plus royalties up 17% of revenues on US sales, plus would get RTW revenues and CIDP revenues, plus the rest of the pipeline. IMM say that the revenue to them from the US agreement for Lupus could amount to $10m a year. Always assuming that the drugs work-they have spent a lot of management time and effort already and are to spend $25m on the trials-so there must be a reasonable that they think they probably will do.
If new flow is positive eg:
Trial participants recruited.
Dosage commenced
RTW deal struck with significant up front payment
CIDP orphan status agreed
CIDP deal struck with significant up front payment
Other drugs move forward in regulatory process
Then the share price will move up-WTFK to what-but a market cap for that lot could be in excess of £100m and if Lupus was a success several multiples of that. Apple and Amazon started life in people's sheds!
Loads will dismiss this-of course-but there are a number of board participants whose views I respect and would be interested to hear their thoughts.