Sarepta Therapeutics (SRPT) just cleared two important clinical hurdles, with the FDA greenlighting dosing for Cohort 8 in its ENDEAVOR gene therapy study and fresh progress in its SRP 1003 RNA program for myotonic dystrophy.
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Those twin updates land at a tense moment for Sarepta, with the stock showing a 19.23% 1 month share price return but a steep 82.63% 1 year total shareholder return decline. This suggests sentiment is stabilising from a very depressed base.
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With sales under pressure, mounting losses and a deep pipeline that could transform its fortunes, is Sarepta now trading below its long term potential, or are markets already pricing in every ounce of future growth?
With Sarepta shares last closing at $22.26 against a narrative fair value of $19.91, the storyline leans cautious on upside from here.
The analysts have a consensus price target of $23.96 for Sarepta Therapeutics based on their expectations of its future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors. However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of $80.0, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just $5.0.
Want to see what justifies that wide spread between best and worst case outcomes? The narrative leans on shrinking losses, margin expansion and a richer future earnings multiple. Curious how those moving parts combine into a single fair value line, and what has to go right along the way? Dive in to unpack the full playbook behind this call.
Result: Fair Value of $19.91 (OVERVALUED)
Have a read of the narrative in full and understand what's behind the forecasts.
However, safety concerns around Elevidys and lingering administrative bottlenecks in gene therapy access could easily derail even cautiously optimistic growth assumptions.
Find out about the key risks to this Sarepta Therapeutics narrative.
While the narrative fair value suggests Sarepta is 11.8% overvalued, our cash flow work tells a different story. The SWS DCF model pegs fair value closer to $59.65, implying the current $22.26 price is deeply discounted. Is the market overreacting to near term risk?
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