IP Group Plc

BATS-CHIXE:IPOL Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£513.4m

IP Group Valuation

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

Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate IPOL's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate IPOL's fair value for valuation analysis.

Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As IPOL is unprofitable and pre-revenue we use its Price-To-Book Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for IPOL. This is calculated by dividing IPOL's market cap by their current book value.
What is IPOL's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio0.5x
BookUK£1.09b
Market CapUK£513.37m

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PB ratio for IPOL vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average0.6x
GROW Molten Ventures
0.5x95.6%UK£547.1m
FGEN Foresight Environmental Infrastructure
0.7xn/aUK£472.5m
ARIX Arix Bioscience
0.7xn/aUK£176.5m
OCI Oakley Capital Investments
0.7xn/aUK£882.1m
IPOL IP Group
0.5x139.0%UK£513.4m

Price-To-Book vs Peers: IPOL is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (0.5x) compared to the peer average (0.6x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does IPOL's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the GB Capital Markets Industry?

6 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
IX. i(x) Net Zero
0.07xn/aUS$8.94m
TI1 Trian Investors 1
0.006xn/aUS$3.21m
MIL Myanmar Investments International
0.1xn/aUS$1.14m
BLU Blue Star Capital
0.1xn/aUS$954.62k
No. of Companies33PB00.81.62.43.24+
6 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: IPOL is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (0.5x) compared to the UK Capital Markets industry average (0.9x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is IPOL'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.

IPOL PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio0.5x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate IPOL'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 IPOL forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUK£0.52
UK£1.13
+116.5%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Jan ’26UK£0.54
UK£1.13
+109.3%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Dec ’25UK£0.44
UK£1.13
+157.4%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Nov ’25UK£0.46
UK£1.13
+146.7%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Oct ’25UK£0.50
UK£1.13
+127.1%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Sep ’25UK£0.42
UK£1.13
+168.7%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Aug ’25UK£0.43
UK£1.13
+164.0%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Jul ’25UK£0.43
UK£1.13
+164.3%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
Jun ’25UK£0.54
UK£1.13
+107.7%
11.5%UK£1.26UK£1.00n/a2
May ’25UK£0.47
UK£1.28
+170.6%
1.6%UK£1.30UK£1.26n/a2
Apr ’25UK£0.48
UK£1.28
+168.2%
1.6%UK£1.30UK£1.26n/a2
Mar ’25UK£0.49
UK£1.32
+168.4%
1.1%UK£1.33UK£1.30n/a2
Feb ’25UK£0.53
UK£1.32
+148.6%
1.1%UK£1.33UK£1.30n/a2
Jan ’25UK£0.58
UK£1.32
+126.7%
1.1%UK£1.33UK£1.30UK£0.542
Dec ’24UK£0.51
UK£1.32
+160.4%
1.1%UK£1.33UK£1.30UK£0.442
Nov ’24UK£0.44
UK£1.32
+195.8%
1.1%UK£1.33UK£1.30UK£0.462
Oct ’24UK£0.53
UK£1.18
+122.9%
16.7%UK£1.33UK£0.90UK£0.503
Sep ’24UK£0.58
UK£1.18
+102.2%
16.7%UK£1.33UK£0.90UK£0.423
Aug ’24UK£0.60
UK£1.18
+95.8%
16.7%UK£1.33UK£0.90UK£0.433
Jul ’24UK£0.57
UK£1.18
+106.8%
16.7%UK£1.33UK£0.90UK£0.433
Jun ’24UK£0.56
UK£1.22
+120.0%
19.5%UK£1.47UK£0.90UK£0.543
May ’24UK£0.56
UK£1.22
+118.1%
19.5%UK£1.47UK£0.90UK£0.473
Apr ’24UK£0.55
UK£1.22
+121.0%
19.5%UK£1.47UK£0.90UK£0.483
Mar ’24UK£0.66
UK£1.29
+96.0%
11.7%UK£1.47UK£1.10UK£0.493
Feb ’24UK£0.61
UK£1.29
+110.4%
11.7%UK£1.47UK£1.10UK£0.533
Jan ’24UK£0.56
UK£1.29
+130.4%
11.7%UK£1.47UK£1.10UK£0.583

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but there are not enough analysts covering the stock to determine statistical confidence in agreement.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2025/01/07 00:55
End of Day Share Price 2025/01/07 00:00
Earnings2024/06/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

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.

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Analyst Sources

IP Group Plc is covered by 6 analysts. 1 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Samuel EnglandBerenberg
Odysseas ManesiotisBerenberg
Julian RobertsJefferies LLC