Alector Valuation

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

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

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


Key Valuation Metric

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

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

ALEC 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/Revenuen/a
Enterprise Value/EBITDAn/a
PEG Ration/a

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PS ratio for ALEC vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average6.8x
RNAC Cartesian Therapeutics
15.7x4.3%US$405.8m
EDIT Editas Medicine
6.1x36.6%US$420.2m
TVTX Travere Therapeutics
3.6x25.1%US$556.5m
VNDA Vanda Pharmaceuticals
2x-2.7%US$356.2m
ALEC Alector
4.6x50.1%US$440.5m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: ALEC is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (4.6x) compared to the peer average (6.8x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does ALEC's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Biotechs Industry?

0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.n/a24.7%
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No. of CompaniesPS048121620

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Price-To-Sales vs Industry: ALEC is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (4.6x) compared to the US Biotechs industry average (10.9x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is ALEC'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.

ALEC PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio4.6x
Fair PS Ratio1.2x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: ALEC is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (4.6x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (1.2x).


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 ALEC forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$4.57
US$15.44
+238.0%
61.9%US$35.00US$4.00n/a9
Jun ’25US$4.92
US$15.44
+213.9%
61.9%US$35.00US$4.00n/a9
May ’25US$5.28
US$16.22
+207.2%
68.6%US$41.00US$4.00n/a9
Apr ’25US$6.16
US$15.80
+156.5%
67.3%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Mar ’25US$7.41
US$15.80
+113.2%
67.3%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Feb ’25US$6.11
US$15.80
+158.6%
67.3%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Jan ’25US$7.98
US$15.80
+98.0%
67.3%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Dec ’24US$5.56
US$15.20
+173.4%
71.5%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Nov ’24US$5.46
US$15.30
+180.2%
70.7%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Oct ’24US$6.48
US$15.40
+137.7%
69.9%US$41.00US$4.00n/a10
Sep ’24US$5.57
US$17.13
+207.5%
65.2%US$41.00US$8.00n/a8
Aug ’24US$6.91
US$17.50
+153.3%
61.1%US$41.00US$10.00n/a8
Jul ’24US$6.01
US$15.38
+155.8%
64.1%US$41.00US$10.00n/a8
Jun ’24US$6.83
US$14.33
+109.9%
68.0%US$41.00US$6.00US$4.929
May ’24US$6.68
US$16.60
+148.5%
67.5%US$41.00US$6.00US$5.289
Apr ’24US$6.19
US$16.82
+171.8%
66.0%US$41.00US$6.00US$6.169
Mar ’24US$8.80
US$17.44
+98.2%
58.9%US$41.00US$6.00US$7.4110
Feb ’24US$9.16
US$21.24
+131.9%
70.6%US$54.00US$6.00US$6.1110
Jan ’24US$9.23
US$22.64
+145.3%
64.2%US$54.00US$6.00US$7.9810
Dec ’23US$8.44
US$22.64
+168.3%
64.2%US$54.00US$6.00US$5.5610
Nov ’23US$9.29
US$23.56
+153.6%
59.0%US$54.00US$6.00US$5.4610
Oct ’23US$9.46
US$23.56
+149.0%
59.0%US$54.00US$6.00US$6.4810
Sep ’23US$10.77
US$24.96
+131.7%
53.9%US$54.00US$6.00US$5.5710
Aug ’23US$10.17
US$25.63
+152.0%
53.8%US$54.00US$6.00US$6.9110
Jul ’23US$11.02
US$28.59
+159.4%
48.6%US$54.00US$6.00US$6.019
Jun ’23US$8.68
US$30.92
+256.3%
47.9%US$54.00US$6.00US$6.839

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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