Ideagen plc

AIM:IDEA Stock Report

Market Cap: UK£1.0b

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Ideagen Valuation

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

Valuation Score

0/6

Valuation Score 0/6

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

Below Fair Value: IDEA (£3.49) is trading above our estimate of fair value (£2.44)

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

Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As IDEA is barely profitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for IDEA. This is calculated by dividing IDEA's market cap by their current revenue.
What is IDEA's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio13.9x
SalesUK£75.28m
Market CapUK£1.05b

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PS ratio for IDEA vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average4.7x
DARK Darktrace
8x18.4%UK£3.7b
BLTG Blancco Technology Group
3.9x9.7%UK£173.0m
KBT K3 Business Technology Group
0.9xn/aUK£35.3m
CRTA Cirata
5.8x51.3%UK£33.0m
IDEA Ideagen
13.9x18.9%UK£1.0b

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: IDEA is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (13.9x) compared to the peer average (5.8x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does IDEA's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the GB Software Industry?

10 CompaniesPrice / SalesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
RM. RM
0.5xn/aUS$107.83m
SWG Shearwater Group
0.4xn/aUS$11.68m
MBO MobilityOne
0.01xn/aUS$2.87m
CCS Crossword Cybersecurity
0.5xn/aUS$2.46m
IDEA 13.9xIndustry Avg. 2.3xNo. of Companies11PS0246810+
10 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: IDEA is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (13.9x) compared to the UK Software industry average (3.5x)

Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is IDEA'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.

IDEA PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio13.9x
Fair PS Ratio10.6x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: IDEA is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (13.9x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (10.6x).

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 IDEA forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Currentn/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Dec ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Nov ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Oct ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Sep ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Aug ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jul ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jun ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
May ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Apr ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Mar ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Feb ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jan ’25n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Dec ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Nov ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Oct ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Sep ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Aug ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jul ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jun ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
May ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Apr ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Mar ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Feb ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Jan ’24n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2
Dec ’23n/a
UK£3.68
0%
0.7%UK£3.70UK£3.65n/a2

Analyst Forecast: Price is less than 20% discount to the current share price.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2022/07/07 06:30
End of Day Share Price 2022/07/07 00:00
Earnings2021/10/31
Annual Earnings2021/04/30

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

Ideagen plc is covered by 5 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
Kai KorscheltCanaccord Genuity
Andrew Murray DarleyCavendish
Paul MorlandPanmure Liberum Historic (Panmure Gordon)