Pinned straw:
For what a brokers view is worth - Neuren has been listed as a buy with a price target of $18.55.
Explains the movement today. Clearly analysts waiting for Daybue numbers and dollars to land in bank accounts before adjusting models. I bought more at $12.00 yesterday on release of Neuren’s results. An immediate price drop - absolutely no reason for this. Another opportunity to get in before the market digested it and up to $13.00 today. I really appreciate everyone’s modeling it really helps when you have solid targets in your own mind to hit the buy button on small dips.
The intelligent investor article is a reasonable one however the author is late to the NEU story. And a both improbable and unbelievable one it is!
If the FDA approved drug Daybue sells like it possibly will, then the milestone payments from this might get to nearly the market cap of $1.6b in the next 2 - 3 years. If it gets to sales of say $500 US/year, then from the royalties alone it will be selling on a PE of less than 20.
Further:
i) There are another four conditions under investigation have the potential for something like four times the expected revenue of Rhetts Syndrome. All are in Phase 2 and about 2 -3 years away from earning.
ii) NEU has $226m of cash right now to help them do it.
iii) The CEO John Pilcher is a persistent, clever and honest executive. And he has now done all this once before with Daybue. In relation to John Pilcher's persistence, he has been hammering away at this in anonymous financial purgatory for 10 years now. Quite a guy.
CSL sells on a PE of about 35 and COH about 50 and here is little old unloved NEU selling for likely less than 20. By the time everyone works it out it in the next few months (when the sales become less opaque) it will be a $25 share.