Liquid Biopsy And Precision Medicine Will Reshape Cancer Care

Published
15 Aug 25
Updated
15 Aug 25
AnalystHighTarget's Fair Value
UK£0.37
84.5% undervalued intrinsic discount
15 Aug
UK£0.058
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Author's Valuation

UK£0.4

84.5% undervalued intrinsic discount

AnalystHighTarget Fair Value

Key Takeaways

  • ANGLE's proprietary technology and expanding diagnostic menu position it as a foundational platform in oncology, enabling superior pricing and major industry adoption.
  • Global expansion, recurring patient monitoring, and new data-driven partnerships are set to drive sustained, high-margin revenue growth well above current expectations.
  • Heavy reliance on landing major pharma deals and a single technology creates vulnerability to industry shifts, innovation risk, ongoing losses, and delayed or suppressed commercial adoption.

Catalysts

About ANGLE
    A medical diagnostic company, engages in developing cancer diagnostics products in the United Kingdom, Europe, North America, and internationally.
What are the underlying business or industry changes driving this perspective?
  • Analyst consensus expects growing pharma/medtech contracts to drive revenue as the pipeline matures, but this likely severely understates the total opportunity-ANGLE's technology sits at the inflection point of regulatory mandates and industry demands for stratification and real-time monitoring, making it highly probable that companion diagnostic revenues will far exceed the £20 million per indication cited, especially as adoption accelerates globally and multi-indication contracts scale.
  • Analysts broadly agree ANGLE's unique Parsortix DNA dual analysis can command premium pricing; however, they overlook the probability that this exclusive platform could become the foundation for next-generation oncology standards, enabling ANGLE to extract even higher average revenue per test and achieve category-leading gross margins as it becomes an essential, non-replaceable tool across all major pharma pipelines.
  • The intensifying focus on repeat testing and longitudinal patient monitoring from both medtech and pharma-driven by the aging population and mounting cancer incidence-unlocks exponential revenue per patient, as Parsortix transforms one-time tests into lifelong, recurring service streams, underpinning sustainable and accelerating revenue growth far beyond current run-rate assumptions.
  • ANGLE's fast-growing IP-backed assay menu, nearly all customer-funded, positions the company at the center of the convergence between advanced diagnostics and AI-driven drug discovery-potentially opening up lucrative data licensing and digital biomarker partnerships, which could create high-margin, non-dilutive income streams materially boosting net earnings.
  • Increasingly, global expansion and rising healthcare budgets in developed and emerging markets are smoothing reimbursement paths and speeding validation for ground-breaking diagnostics, suggesting that ANGLE is likely to unlock large, underappreciated international revenue pools at higher margins than currently modeled, supporting net income outperformance over the long run.

ANGLE Earnings and Revenue Growth

ANGLE Future Earnings and Revenue Growth

Assumptions

How have these above catalysts been quantified?
  • This narrative explores a more optimistic perspective on ANGLE compared to the consensus, based on a Fair Value that aligns with the bullish cohort of analysts.
  • The bullish analysts are assuming ANGLE's revenue will grow by 220.0% annually over the next 3 years.
  • The bullish analysts assume that profit margins will increase from -497.0% today to 0.7% in 3 years time.
  • The bullish analysts expect earnings to reach £682.3 thousand (and earnings per share of £0.0) by about August 2028, up from £-14.2 million today. The analysts are largely in agreement about this estimate.
  • In order for the above numbers to justify the price target of the more bullish analyst cohort, the company would need to trade at a PE ratio of 218.6x on those 2028 earnings, up from -1.2x today. This future PE is greater than the current PE for the GB Medical Equipment industry at 40.2x.
  • Analysts expect the number of shares outstanding to decline by 0.31% per year for the next 3 years.
  • To value all of this in today's terms, we will use a discount rate of 8.23%, as per the Simply Wall St company report.

ANGLE Future Earnings Per Share Growth

ANGLE Future Earnings Per Share Growth

Risks

What could happen that would invalidate this narrative?
  • The company's growth is heavily dependent on securing large, binary outcome contracts with big pharma or medtech companies, and management has acknowledged uncertainty and significant delays in securing or progressing these deals, which poses a high risk to near
  • and long-term revenue predictability and could cause stock price underperformance if major wins do not materialize.
  • ANGLE's entire business relies on clinical adoption and commercial success of a single flagship technology, Parsortix, making the company vulnerable to technological disruption as new genomic and proteomic platforms rapidly evolve or better liquid biopsy competitors enter the market, threatening both future revenue streams and earnings stability.
  • Ongoing cost pressures around research and development, regulatory requirements, quality assurance for pharma clients, and commercialization have resulted in persistent operating losses; continued high expenses without breakout sales growth may erode cash reserves and threaten financial sustainability, negatively impacting net margins and long-term profitability.
  • Growing global cost containment in healthcare, combined with tightening funding for research and increased regulatory scrutiny in both the US and Europe, has already caused delays and could further suppress adoption, price levels, and the addressable market for advanced diagnostics, limiting both revenue growth and market valuation.
  • The long-term trend toward decentralized, digitized, and at-home diagnostics could reduce demand for specialized, laboratory-based platforms like Parsortix, especially if at-home or digital-first technologies outpace clinical adoption of circulating tumor cell diagnostics, eventually putting downward pressure on growth and revenue potential.

Valuation

How have all the factors above been brought together to estimate a fair value?

  • The assumed bullish price target for ANGLE is £0.37, which is the highest price target estimate amongst analysts. This valuation is based on what can be assumed as the expectations of ANGLE's future earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors from analysts on the bullish end of the spectrum.
  • However, there is a degree of disagreement amongst analysts, with the most bullish reporting a price target of £0.37, and the most bearish reporting a price target of just £0.17.
  • In order for you to agree with the bullish analysts, you'd need to believe that by 2028, revenues will be £93.7 million, earnings will come to £682.3 thousand, and it would be trading on a PE ratio of 218.6x, assuming you use a discount rate of 8.2%.
  • Given the current share price of £0.06, the bullish analyst price target of £0.37 is 85.1% higher.
  • We always encourage you to reach your own conclusions though. So sense check these analyst numbers against your own assumptions and expectations based on your understanding of the business and what you believe is probable.

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