Opthea Valuation

Is UKJ 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-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 UKJ when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: UKJ (€0.45) is trading below our estimate of fair value (€13.23)

Significantly Below Fair Value: UKJ is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Key Valuation Metric

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

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

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for UKJ. This is calculated by dividing UKJ's market cap by their current book value.
What is UKJ's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio-7.7x
Book-US$75.81m
Market CapUS$584.16m

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PB ratio for UKJ vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average2x
FYB Formycon
1.7x22.6%€965.8m
BIO3 Biotest
2x29.3%€1.4b
2INV 2invest
1.1xn/a€67.3m
HPHA Heidelberg Pharma
3.2x-33.0%€113.3m
UKJ Opthea
n/a63.4%€941.8m

Price-To-Book vs Peers: UKJ has negative equity and a Price-To-Book Ratio (-7.7x) compared to the peer average (2x).


Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does UKJ's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the DE Biotechs Industry?

3 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
V9Z Aceragen
0.1xn/aUS$3.12m
V9Z Aceragen
0.1xn/aUS$2.18m
O7P NeuBase Therapeutics
0.1xn/aUS$1.39m
No more companies available in this PB range
UKJ is unprofitableIndustry Avg. 2.5xNo. of Companies3PB00.61.21.82.43+
3 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: UKJ has negative equity and a Price-To-Book Ratio (-7.7x) compared to the European Biotechs industry average (2.4x).


Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is UKJ'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.

UKJ PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio-7.7x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate UKJ'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?

The above table shows the analyst UKJ forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Current€0.45
€0.59
+32.2%
53.3%€0.99€0.17n/a5
Dec ’25€0.43
€0.55
+28.8%
61.9%€0.99€0.17n/a4
Nov ’25€0.48
€0.56
+17.8%
61.9%€1.00€0.17n/a4
Oct ’25€0.50
€0.56
+12.0%
61.9%€0.99€0.17n/a4
Sep ’25€0.33
€0.48
+42.5%
64.4%€0.98€0.17n/a4
Aug ’25€0.25
€0.48
+93.5%
64.4%€0.98€0.17n/a4
Jul ’25€0.19
€0.54
+176.2%
64.9%€1.00€0.17n/a3
Jun ’25€0.28
€0.54
+92.2%
63.4%€1.00€0.19n/a3
May ’25€0.35
€0.54
+56.5%
65.0%€1.03€0.18n/a3
Apr ’25€0.42
€0.48
+12.4%
82.9%€1.03€0.18n/a3
Mar ’25€0.38
€0.51
+32.9%
86.8%€1.13€0.18n/a3
Feb ’25€0.27
€0.52
+88.0%
86.8%€1.15€0.18n/a3
Jan ’25€0.32
€0.69
+113.1%
71.7%€1.23€0.18€0.474
Dec ’24€0.28
€0.69
+146.8%
71.7%€1.23€0.18€0.434
Nov ’24€0.17
€0.69
+301.2%
71.7%€1.23€0.18€0.484
Oct ’24€0.17
€0.78
+362.7%
77.6%€1.60€0.18€0.504
Sep ’24€0.22
€0.66
+192.6%
99.4%€1.58€0.18€0.333
Aug ’24€0.33
€1.05
+217.0%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.253
Jul ’24€0.30
€1.05
+250.8%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.193
Jun ’24€0.34
€1.05
+213.2%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.283
May ’24€0.40
€1.05
+165.8%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.353
Apr ’24€0.41
€1.05
+157.9%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.423
Mar ’24€0.48
€1.05
+119.3%
53.6%€1.79€0.41€0.383
Feb ’24€0.59
€1.08
+83.1%
48.7%€1.78€0.51€0.273
Jan ’24€0.55
€1.08
+96.4%
48.7%€1.78€0.51€0.323

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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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/01/02 05:55
End of Day Share Price 2025/01/02 00:00
Earnings2024/06/30
Annual Earnings2024/06/30

Data Sources

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

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Analyst Sources

Opthea Limited is covered by 16 analysts. 10 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Thomas WakimBell Potter
Elyse ShapiroCanaccord Genuity
Yigal NochomovitzCitigroup Inc