Viking Therapeutics, Inc.

LSE:0VQA Stock Report

Market Cap: US$5.9b

Viking Therapeutics Valuation

Is 0VQA 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 0VQA when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate 0VQA's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Fair Value: Insufficient data to calculate 0VQA's fair value for valuation analysis.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for 0VQA?

Key metric: As 0VQA 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 0VQA. This is calculated by dividing 0VQA's market cap by their current book value.
What is 0VQA's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio6.4x
BookUS$911.45m
Market CapUS$5.86b

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

How does 0VQA's PB Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PB ratio for 0VQA vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average6.7x
GNS Genus
2.1x37.7%UK£1.1b
OXB Oxford Biomedica
6.7x93.2%UK£442.5m
PRTC PureTech Health
1.6x-13.0%UK£409.9m
BVXP Bioventix
16.3xn/aUK£195.7m
0VQA Viking Therapeutics
6.4x-1.8%US$5.9b

Price-To-Book vs Peers: 0VQA is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (6.4x) compared to the peer average (6.7x).


Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does 0VQA's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the GB Biotechs Industry?

4 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
DEST Destiny Pharma
0.3x-15.5%US$5.85m
BDRX Biodexa Pharmaceuticals
0.5xn/aUS$4.42m
LLAI LungLife AI
0.4x101.0%US$3.46m
VAL ValiRx
0.6xn/aUS$2.78m
No more companies available in this PB range
0VQA 6.4xIndustry Avg. 2.9xNo. of Companies7PB02.44.87.29.612+
4 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: 0VQA is expensive based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (6.4x) compared to the UK Biotechs industry average (2.9x).


Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is 0VQA'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.

0VQA PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio6.4x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate 0VQA'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 0VQA forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$52.81
US$112.57
+113.2%
16.6%US$164.00US$80.00n/a14
Nov ’25US$73.21
US$109.92
+50.2%
14.2%US$138.00US$80.00n/a13
Oct ’25US$62.19
US$109.70
+76.4%
14.0%US$138.00US$80.00n/a13
Sep ’25US$62.45
US$112.17
+79.6%
11.8%US$138.00US$90.00n/a12
Aug ’25US$54.98
US$112.17
+104.0%
11.8%US$138.00US$90.00n/a12
Jul ’25US$55.98
US$112.08
+100.2%
11.7%US$138.00US$90.00n/a12
Jun ’25US$62.05
US$112.45
+81.2%
11.9%US$138.00US$90.00n/a11
May ’25US$77.42
US$108.44
+40.1%
19.5%US$138.00US$54.86n/a11
Apr ’25US$81.58
US$108.44
+32.9%
19.5%US$138.00US$54.86n/a11
Mar ’25US$84.12
US$99.69
+18.5%
20.4%US$120.00US$54.86n/a10
Feb ’25US$23.87
US$34.00
+42.4%
10.2%US$40.00US$28.00n/a9
Jan ’25US$18.67
US$34.00
+82.1%
10.2%US$40.00US$28.00n/a9
Dec ’24US$13.08
US$34.00
+160.0%
10.2%US$40.00US$28.00n/a9
Nov ’24US$9.42
US$34.00
+261.1%
10.2%US$40.00US$28.00US$73.219
Oct ’24US$11.31
US$33.80
+198.9%
9.9%US$40.00US$28.00US$62.1910
Sep ’24US$14.75
US$33.80
+129.2%
9.9%US$40.00US$28.00US$62.4510
Aug ’24US$13.86
US$33.80
+143.9%
9.9%US$40.00US$28.00US$54.9810
Jul ’24US$16.60
US$33.30
+100.6%
12.5%US$40.00US$25.00US$55.9810
Jun ’24US$21.98
US$33.30
+51.5%
12.5%US$40.00US$25.00US$62.0510
May ’24US$20.96
US$28.80
+37.4%
18.0%US$35.00US$19.00US$77.4210
Apr ’24US$16.67
US$27.10
+62.6%
18.3%US$35.00US$19.00US$81.5810
Mar ’24US$11.44
US$19.22
+68.1%
31.9%US$30.00US$12.00US$84.129
Feb ’24US$8.86
US$18.56
+109.5%
34.4%US$30.00US$11.00US$23.879
Jan ’24US$9.04
US$18.33
+102.8%
35.6%US$30.00US$11.00US$18.679
Dec ’23US$3.97
US$17.44
+339.4%
41.7%US$30.00US$10.00US$13.089
Nov ’23US$4.38
US$17.44
+298.7%
41.7%US$30.00US$10.00US$9.429

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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