Cara Therapeutics, Inc.

NasdaqCM:CARA Stock Report

Market Cap: US$16.7m

Cara Therapeutics Valuation

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

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

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


Key Valuation Metric

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

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

The above table shows the Price to Sales ratio for CARA. This is calculated by dividing CARA's market cap by their current revenue.
What is CARA's PS Ratio?
PS Ratio2x
SalesUS$8.69m
Market CapUS$16.73m

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PS ratio for CARA vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average2.1x
SLGL Sol-Gel Technologies
1.1x27.7%US$12.3m
PRPH ProPhase Labs
1.5x86.3%US$18.3m
RDHL RedHill Biopharma
2.3xn/aUS$8.2m
LPCN Lipocine
3.4x16.3%US$25.2m
CARA Cara Therapeutics
2x46.4%US$16.7m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: CARA is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2x) compared to the peer average (2.1x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

How does CARA's PS Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry?

70 CompaniesPrice / SalesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
OGN Organon
0.6x-0.06%US$3.79b
PRGO Perrigo
0.8x3.4%US$3.70b
BHC Bausch Health Companies
0.3x1.5%US$3.01b
SNDL SNDL
0.8x7.2%US$520.38m
CARA 2.0xIndustry Avg. 2.5xNo. of Companies70PS03.67.210.814.418+
70 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: CARA is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2x) compared to the US Pharmaceuticals industry average (2.5x).


Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is CARA'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.

CARA PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio2x
Fair PS Ratio0.8x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: CARA is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.8x).


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 CARA forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$0.31
US$1.66
+433.9%
67.9%US$3.60US$1.00n/a4
Nov ’25US$0.30
US$1.66
+457.2%
67.9%US$3.60US$1.00n/a4
Oct ’25US$0.29
US$1.52
+431.0%
68.1%US$3.60US$1.00n/a5
Sep ’25US$0.36
US$1.52
+323.3%
68.1%US$3.60US$1.00n/a5
Aug ’25US$0.35
US$1.52
+329.5%
68.1%US$3.60US$1.00n/a5
Jul ’25US$0.26
US$1.65
+527.4%
68.2%US$3.60US$1.00n/a4
Jun ’25US$0.65
US$5.12
+688.4%
57.9%US$10.00US$1.00n/a5
May ’25US$0.76
US$5.12
+574.9%
57.9%US$10.00US$1.00n/a5
Apr ’25US$0.91
US$4.90
+438.5%
63.4%US$10.00US$1.00n/a5
Mar ’25US$0.95
US$5.58
+487.7%
59.5%US$11.00US$1.00n/a6
Feb ’25US$0.56
US$7.07
+1,160.7%
67.4%US$16.00US$1.00n/a7
Jan ’25US$0.74
US$7.79
+947.9%
61.4%US$16.00US$1.00n/a7
Dec ’24US$1.06
US$12.14
+1,045.6%
57.6%US$22.00US$1.00n/a7
Nov ’24US$1.21
US$16.14
+1,234.1%
42.3%US$25.00US$7.00US$0.307
Oct ’24US$1.68
US$17.29
+928.9%
33.6%US$25.00US$8.00US$0.297
Sep ’24US$2.40
US$18.71
+679.8%
23.5%US$25.00US$12.00US$0.367
Aug ’24US$3.14
US$17.63
+461.3%
40.0%US$28.00US$4.00US$0.358
Jul ’24US$2.83
US$17.63
+522.8%
40.0%US$28.00US$4.00US$0.268
Jun ’24US$3.09
US$17.63
+470.4%
40.0%US$28.00US$4.00US$0.658
May ’24US$4.23
US$18.50
+337.4%
35.2%US$28.00US$6.00US$0.768
Apr ’24US$4.91
US$18.50
+276.8%
35.2%US$28.00US$6.00US$0.918
Mar ’24US$10.06
US$23.13
+129.9%
21.8%US$29.00US$13.00US$0.958
Feb ’24US$11.86
US$23.63
+99.2%
23.8%US$30.00US$13.00US$0.568
Jan ’24US$10.74
US$23.63
+120.0%
23.8%US$30.00US$13.00US$0.748
Dec ’23US$11.96
US$23.63
+97.5%
23.8%US$30.00US$13.00US$1.068
Nov ’23US$9.65
US$24.38
+152.6%
24.2%US$30.00US$13.00US$1.218

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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