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Zymergen Valuation

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

Valuation Score

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Significantly Below Future Cash Flow Value
Price-To-Sales vs Peers
Price-To-Sales vs Industry
Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio
Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Future Cash Flow Value

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

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Below Future Cash Flow Value: Insufficient data to calculate ZY's fair value for valuation analysis.

Significantly Below Future Cash Flow Value: Insufficient data to calculate ZY's fair value for valuation analysis.

Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As ZY is unprofitable we use its Price-To-Sales Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for ZY. This is calculated by dividing ZY's market cap by their current revenue.
What is ZY's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio	17.4x
Sales	US$14.58m
Market Cap	US$253.58m

ZY key valuation metrics and ratios. From Price to Earnings, Price to Sales and Price to Book to Price to Earnings Growth Ratio, Enterprise Value and EBITDA.
Key Statistics
Enterprise Value/Revenue	15.5x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA	-0.9x
PEG Ratio	n/a

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PS ratio for ZY vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
Company	Forward PS	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
Peer Average	0.5x
TSEO.F Trinseo	0.001x	n/a	US$4.0m
CMT Core Molding Technologies	0.8x	4.70%	US$204.1m
SIRE Sisecam Resources	0.7x	n/a	US$511.9m
ORGN Origin Materials	0.6x	n/a	US$11.6m
ZY Zymergen	17.4x	n/a	US$253.6m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: ZY is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (17.4x) compared to the peer average (0.4x).

Historical Price to Sales Ratio

Historical Price to Sales Ratio compares a stock's price to its sales over time. Higher ratios indicate that investors are willing to pay more for the stock.

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Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does ZY's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Chemicals Industry?

16 Companies	Price / Sales	Estimated Growth	Market Cap
MATV Mativ Holdings	0.2x	1.32%	US$461.45m
VHI Valhi	0.2x	n/a	US$399.06m
OEC Orion	0.2x	1.93%	US$359.03m
AVD American Vanguard	0.1x	n/a	US$70.49m

16 Companies		Estimated Growth	Market Cap

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Price-To-Sales vs Industry: ZY is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (17.4x) compared to the US Chemicals industry average (1.2x)

Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is ZY'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.

ZY PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio	17.4x
Fair PS Ratio	n/a

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate ZY's Price-To-Sales 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

Data	Last Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis	2022/10/23 18:31
End of Day Share Price	2022/10/18 00:00
Earnings	2022/06/30
Annual Earnings	2021/12/31

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.

Package	Data	Timeframe	Example US Source ^*
Company Financials	10 years	Income statement Cash flow statement Balance sheet	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form 10-Q
Analyst Consensus Estimates	+3 years	Forecast financials Analyst price targets	Analyst Research Reports Blue Matrix
Market Prices	30 years	Stock prices Dividends, Splits and Actions	ICE Market Data SEC Form S-1
Ownership	10 years	Top shareholders Insider trading	SEC Form 4 SEC Form 13D
Management	10 years	Leadership team Board of directors	SEC Form 10-K SEC Form DEF 14A
Key Developments	10 years	Company announcements	SEC Form 8-K

^* 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.

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Industry and Sector Metrics

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Analyst Sources

Zymergen Inc. is covered by 5 analysts. of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

Analyst	Institution
Derik de Bruin	BofA Global Research
Matthew Sykes	Goldman Sachs
Sriharsha Pappu	HSBC