Umicore Valuation

Is UMI undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

2/6

Valuation Score 2/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Sales vs Peers

  • Price-To-Sales vs Industry

  • Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of UMI when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: UMI (€10.57) is trading above our estimate of fair value (€1.15)

Significantly Below Fair Value: UMI is trading above our estimate of fair value.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for UMI?

Key metric: As UMI is unprofitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for UMI. This is calculated by dividing UMI's market cap by their current revenue.
What is UMI's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio0.2x
Sales€15.72b
Market Cap€2.55b

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

How does UMI's PS Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PS ratio for UMI vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average0.4x
LNZ Lenzing
0.4x2.7%€1.2b
WIE Wienerberger
0.7x6.8%€3.0b
VOE Voestalpine
0.2x0.7%€3.2b
MMK Mayr-Melnhof Karton
0.4x3.5%€1.4b
UMI Umicore
0.2x-37.1%€2.5b

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: UMI is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.2x) compared to the peer average (0.4x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does UMI's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Chemicals Industry?

28 CompaniesPrice / SalesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.1.0x4.4%
UMI Umicore
0.2x-37.1%US$2.67b
UMI 0.2xIndustry Avg. 1.0xNo. of Companies29PS01.22.43.64.86+
28 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.1.0x21.9%
UMI Umicore
0.2x102.0%US$2.67b
No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: UMI is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.2x) compared to the European Chemicals industry average (1x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is UMI's PS Ratio compared to its Fair PS Ratio? This is the expected PS Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

UMI PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio0.2x
Fair PS Ratio0.08x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: UMI is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.2x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.1x).


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst UMI forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Current€10.57
€14.15
+33.8%
19.3%€20.00€10.00n/a17
Nov ’25€11.22
€14.79
+31.9%
17.3%€20.00€10.00n/a17
Oct ’25€11.81
€14.85
+25.8%
16.5%€20.00€11.00n/a17
Sep ’25€11.46
€15.16
+32.3%
17.3%€20.00€11.00n/a17
Aug ’25€12.74
€15.73
+23.5%
19.3%€22.00€11.00n/a17
Jul ’25€14.25
€17.46
+22.6%
24.9%€29.00€13.00n/a17
Jun ’25€18.09
€21.97
+21.5%
16.1%€29.00€16.50n/a17
May ’25€20.98
€24.39
+16.2%
22.0%€40.00€18.00n/a18
Apr ’25€20.17
€24.81
+23.0%
21.0%€40.00€18.00n/a18
Mar ’25€19.39
€26.18
+35.0%
25.6%€46.00€18.00n/a20
Feb ’25€21.06
€27.15
+28.9%
22.8%€46.00€20.00n/a20
Jan ’25€25.01
€29.54
+18.1%
22.2%€50.00€21.00n/a20
Dec ’24€24.80
€29.84
+20.3%
21.2%€50.00€22.00n/a20
Nov ’24€22.46
€30.44
+35.5%
21.2%€50.00€22.00€11.2220
Oct ’24€21.74
€30.89
+42.1%
19.0%€50.00€22.00€11.8120
Sep ’24€24.07
€31.04
+29.0%
19.2%€50.00€22.00€11.4619
Aug ’24€27.22
€30.78
+13.1%
19.9%€50.00€22.00€12.7418
Jul ’24€25.49
€32.63
+28.0%
21.9%€53.00€22.00€14.2516
Jun ’24€26.37
€33.25
+26.1%
21.8%€53.00€22.00€18.0916
May ’24€29.30
€34.13
+16.5%
20.7%€53.00€25.00€20.9815
Apr ’24n/a
€34.06
0%
20.2%€53.00€25.00€20.1716
Mar ’24n/a
€34.12
0%
19.5%€53.00€25.00€19.3917
Feb ’24€34.46
€34.65
+0.5%
19.4%€53.00€25.00€21.0617
Jan ’24€34.56
€35.78
+3.5%
21.8%€54.00€25.00€25.0118
Dec ’23€34.69
€35.83
+3.3%
21.8%€54.00€25.00€24.8018
Nov ’23€33.15
€35.78
+7.9%
21.8%€54.00€25.00€22.4618

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but analysts are not within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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