Gubra (One pager): Obesity Market Upgrade Enhances DCF Estimates
Gubra’s share price has risen by nearly 300% year-to-date, driven by growing investor interest in the obesity sector and increasing awareness of Gubra’s obesity focus within its Discovery & Preclinical (D&P) business.
From an investment perspective, Gubra offers investors a unique risk and return profile by combining 1) A high growing and positive cash flow- generating CRO business benefitting from the trend of pharma companies increasingly outsourcing CRO services, with CRO market spending forecast to grow at 11% CAGR 2026[1]), and 2) A high-reward traditional drug discovery activity in its D&P business. The CRO segment’s positive cash flows support its D&P activities with additional synergies from knowledge and resource exchange. Gubra’s D&P segment are developing pipeline candidates with partners with significant future milestones and royalty potential, as well as its own two (non-partnered) obesity product candidates Amylin-analog based GUBamy and UCN2 (targeting ‘healthy weight loss’). They can both act as stand-alone products or products used in combination with other obesity products – or even be combined with each other.
Following its Q2 2024 report, Gubra upgraded its full-year guidance, raising expectations for 2024 organic revenue growth to 23-28% (up from 15-20%) and its EBIT margin to 29-32% (from 28-31%).
We have revised our DCF-model, guided by the company, to reflect new estimates for the total obesity market in 2030. With the current share price in line with our latest one-pager from June 2024, the model indicates a lower probability og success (PoS) in the base case.
Strong growth in Gubra’s CRO business, primarily fueled by obesity-related projects, reinforces the belief that Gubra’s early-stage pipeline may have a competitive edge from a medical innovation perspective. This advantage could allow the company to capture a larger market share than previously assumed in the DCF model, even as Gubra and its partners are set to enter what is anticipated to be a highly competitive and crowded obesity marketplace.
Disclaimer: HC Andersen Capital receives payment from Gubra for a Digital IR/Corporate Visibility subscription agreement. /Claus Thestrup 3:45 PM 09-09-2024.
Gubra
Gubra is a pharmaceutical company. The company's operations are focused on the early stages of drug development. They mainly conduct research and development in the field of metabolic and fibrotic diseases. The company's product portfolio includes several brands and pharmaceuticals, and operations are conducted on a global level, with the largest presence in North America and the Nordics. The head office is located in Hørsholm, Denmark.
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