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BELLUS Health Valuation

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

Valuation Score

1/6

Valuation Score 1/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Book vs Peers

  • Price-To-Book vs Industry

  • Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

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

Below Fair Value: BLU (CA$19.5) is trading above our estimate of fair value (CA$16.16)

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


Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As BLU barely has revenue we use its Price-To-Book Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for BLU. This is calculated by dividing BLU's market cap by their current book value.
What is BLU's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio5.1x
BookUS$368.90m
Market CapUS$1.87b

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

How does BLU's PB Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PB ratio for BLU vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average9.5x
EPRX Eupraxia Pharmaceuticals
11.5xn/aCA$154.2m
SVA Sernova
n/a59.0%CA$74.8m
ONC Oncolytics Biotech
11x37.5%CA$91.7m
BCT BriaCell Therapeutics
5.9x28.2%CA$36.7m
BLU BELLUS Health
5.1x46.1%CA$2.5b

Price-To-Book vs Peers: BLU is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (5.1x) compared to the peer average (32.2x).


Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does BLU's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the CA Biotechs Industry?

3 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
CSCI COSCIENS Biopharma
0.4xn/aUS$8.52m
MPH Medicure
0.5xn/aUS$6.46m
QPT Quest PharmaTech
0.2xn/aUS$3.53m
No more companies available in this PB range
BLU 5.1xIndustry Avg. 4.1xNo. of Companies3PB0246810+
3 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: BLU is expensive based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (5.1x) compared to the Canadian Biotechs industry average (1.7x)


Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

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

BLU PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio5.1x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate BLU's Price-To-Book Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

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

Analyst Forecast: Insufficient data to show price forecast.


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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2023/06/28 14:50
End of Day Share Price 2023/06/28 00:00
Earnings2023/03/31
Annual Earnings2022/12/31

Data Sources

The data used in our company analysis is from S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC. The following data is used in our analysis model to generate this report. Data is normalised which can introduce a delay from the source being available.

PackageDataTimeframeExample US Source *
Company Financials10 years
  • Income statement
  • Cash flow statement
  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
  • Forecast financials
  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
  • Stock prices
  • Dividends, Splits and Actions
Ownership10 years
  • Top shareholders
  • Insider trading
Management10 years
  • Leadership team
  • Board of directors
Key Developments10 years
  • Company announcements

* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

Unless specified all financial data is based on a yearly period but updated quarterly. This is known as Trailing Twelve Month (TTM) or Last Twelve Month (LTM) Data. Learn more here.

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Analyst Sources

BELLUS Health Inc. is covered by 12 analysts. 3 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Brian SkorneyBaird
Justin ZelinBTIG
Pooya HemamiEdison Investment Research