Cara Therapeutics, Inc.

NasdaqCM:CARA Stock Report

Market Cap: US$23.2m

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 Ratio2.7x
SalesUS$8.69m
Market CapUS$23.18m

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 Average8.3x
LPCN Lipocine
3.3x16.3%US$26.0m
SLGL Sol-Gel Technologies
1x27.7%US$12.0m
PRPH ProPhase Labs
1.1x86.3%US$14.6m
IGXT IntelGenx Technologies
27.8xn/aUS$29.2m
CARA Cara Therapeutics
2.7x66.3%US$23.2m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: CARA is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2.7x) compared to the peer average (8.3x).

Price to Sales Ratio vs Industry

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

69 CompaniesPrice / SalesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
OGN Organon
0.6x0.02%US$3.75b
PRGO Perrigo
0.8x3.4%US$3.51b
BHC Bausch Health Companies
0.3x1.5%US$2.75b
AMRX Amneal Pharmaceuticals
0.9x5.6%US$2.41b
CARA 2.7xIndustry Avg. 3.0xNo. of Companies69PS03.67.210.814.418+
69 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Sales vs Industry: CARA is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2.7x) compared to the US Pharmaceuticals industry average (3x).

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 Ratio2.7x
Fair PS Ratio0.005x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: CARA is expensive based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (2.7x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (0x).

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$0.42
US$1.01
+139.0%
1.0%US$1.02US$1.00n/a2
Dec ’25US$0.30
US$1.01
+231.1%
0.9%US$1.02US$1.00n/a3
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$1.00US$0.307
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

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price, but there are not enough analysts covering the stock to determine statistical confidence in agreement.

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/22 10:49
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/20 00:00
Earnings2024/09/30
Annual Earnings2023/12/31

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.

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

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Analyst Sources

Cara Therapeutics, Inc. is covered by 15 analysts. 1 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Jason Matthew GerberryBofA Global Research
Corey DavisCanaccord Genuity
Charles DuncanCantor Fitzgerald & Co.