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Stealth BioTherapeutics CorpNasdaqGM:MITO Stock Report

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Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp

NasdaqGM:MITO Stock Report

Market Cap: US$23.5m

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Stealth BioTherapeutics (MITO) Stock Overview

Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction. More details

MITO fundamental analysis
Snowflake Score
Valuation2/6
Future Growth0/6
Past Performance0/6
Financial Health0/6
Dividends0/6

Rewards

Earnings have grown 14.4% per year over the past 5 years

Risk Analysis

Makes less than USD$1m in revenue ($0)

Negative shareholders equity

Does not have a meaningful market cap ($24M)

Shareholders have been diluted in the past year

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Price History & Performance

Summary of share price highs, lows and changes for Stealth BioTherapeutics
Historical stock prices
Current Share PriceUS$0.32
52 Week HighUS$1.03
52 Week LowUS$0.16
Beta1.46
1 Month Change1.75%
3 Month Change3.76%
1 Year Change-68.00%
3 Year Change-95.86%
5 Year Changen/a
Change since IPO-97.31%

Recent News & Updates

Seeking Alpha • Sep 30

Stealth Biotherapeutics chief financial officer Robert Weiskopf leaves company

Stealth BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:MITO) said on Friday Robert Weiskopf, its chief financial officer, is leaving the company effective September 30. Weiskopf joined Stealth in 2019 following the initial public offering.
Seeking Alpha • Aug 01

Stealth BioTherapeutics shares pop ~20% premarket after co agrees to go private

Stealth BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:MITO) on Monday said it had agreed to go private by being acquired by Morningside Venture (I) Investments, over a month after the clinical-stage biotech received the investment firm's preliminary proposal. MITO stock jumped 19.9% to $0.29 in premarket trading on the announcement. As per the terms of the deal, a consortium of investors led by Morningside for itself and on behalf of its affiliates and J. Wood Capital Advisors LLC will buy MITO for $0.03125 per share and $0.375 per ADS in an all-cash transaction. The per ADS consideration represents a 56.3% premium to Stealth's (MITO) last closing price of $0.24, and a 33.9% premium to the company's closing price of $0.28 on June 24, which was the last trading day before MITO said it had got the preliminary proposal. The Morningside led consortium intends to fund the merger through cash contributions from its members. MITO said its board had approved the deal and that the merger was expected to close during H2 this year.
Seeking Alpha • Jul 26

Stealth BioTherapeutics: A Net-Net Biopharma Going Private

This seems to be an interesting going private setup currently offering a 10% upside. Majority shareholder Morningside is acquiring the remaining 33% stake in a nanocap biopharmaceutical company Stealth BioTherapeutics. The buyer has indicated that it wants to complete the transaction swiftly and without broad due diligence. Offer cancellation risk seems to be low as the company is an advanced-stage biopharma that is currently trading below net cash while the buyer seems reputable and controls the company. On June 24, Morningside Venture Investments (MVIL) issued a non-binding proposal to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical Stealth BioTherapeutics (MITO). MVIL already has a 67% stake in the company. The offer is $0.313 per ADS or $0.263 after deducting ADS cancellation fees. At current prices, this offers a 10% upside (after ADS fees). Majority-of-minority shareholder approval will not be needed while the committee of independent directors is likely to accept the deal given MVIL's influence over the company. I do not expect any regulatory scrutiny from CFIUS given MITO's size. In my view, the risks here boil down to whether MVIL can walk away from the acquisition. There are several reasons why offer withdrawal seems unlikely: MITO's key phase 3 drug for Barth Syndrome seems to have a good chance of being approved by the FDA despite its rejection in October 2021. The buyer seems to be a reputable Chinese PE/VC firm and already has full control over MITO. According to the acquisition proposal, MVIL is willing complete the transaction with a "superior degree of speed" and without broad due diligence which could point to a quick buyout timeline. MITO's stock price is currently below its most recently reported net cash levels ($0.27/ADS). However, the company is burning cash at a rapid pace - the latest estimate is that the company has enough cash to fund operating expenses into Q4'22. Having said that, offer withdrawal from the Chinese company remains a risk, particularly given non-binding nature of the proposal. In my experience, non-binding takeover offers from Chinese companies generally have a noticeably lower closing rate than binding proposals. Investors should also be aware that there is a possibility that the Chinese government interrupts the payment of funds to foreign shareholders if the merger closes. MITO MITO is a ~$16m market cap clinical-stage biopharma that was founded in 2006 and IPO'ed in 2019. The company is involved in mitochondrial medicine discovery, development and commercialization. The share price has continued to decline since going public and now MITO trades close to an all-time low. This can be attributed to a couple of the company's operational failures: In 2019, MITO failed a phase 3 drug trial for a primary mitochondrial myopathy ((PNM)) drug. This was a key reason behind the 75%+ share price plunge in Dec'19. In May 2022, the company failed a phase 2 trial for elamipretide treatment for blind people. In July 2022 (already after the non-binding offer announcement) - shares sold off 15% on 5x heavier volume upon receipt of NASDAQ non-compliance warning - unlikely to be an issue while the current transaction is pending. Since the 2019 failure, the company's most advanced drug has been elamipretide for treatment of Barth Syndrome. It's currently in its Phase 3 trial. MITO has sought FDA approval for the drug since 2021. However, last fall, the FDA declined to review MITO's NDA (new drug application) as it lacked additional controlled data. The FDA recommended designing a new clinical trial instead of using historical medical records of patients as control group data. Recently, however, the drug was granted a pre-NDA meeting. Reportedly, MITO will present new clinical data collected over 3.5 years, however, it will come from the same open-label extension of the ongoing phase 2/3 study and not a new trial. The FDA has previously said that an open-label extension study would not provide enough evidence to support an NDA. However, there are several reasons to expect the FDA to eventually approve the drug: The original application showed that trial goals were met - the problem was that the data was compared to historical medical records. Nevertheless, this is encouraging and likely shows the drug's efficacy. The company has also emphasized that the trial results have been "durable" across all patients. Barth Syndrome is an ultra-rare disease - only around 130 individuals in the US have the condition. For this reason, a new clinical trial is inherently hard to design and carry out. MITO has also stated that the FDA itself did not identify a suitable trial design. BridgeBio Pharma's first FDA approval for a rare disease in early 2021 appears to be a similar case. The clinical trial relied on the same design as MITO's - historical medical records were used as control data. MITO has openly said that it did not expect the first NDA to be approved but was rather pushed by a community of Barth Syndrome advocates. The fact that now MITO has new data is encouraging. The drug for Barth Syndrome has already received orphan drug, rare pediatric and fast track designations from the FDA, showing its uniqueness and essentiality for some part of the population. There are no FDA-approved drugs for the disease and other treatments are potentially years away. The meeting is expected in Q3'22. Overall, FDA approval is far from guaranteed but it is clearly a high-potential phase 3 drug and probably explains why the controlling shareholder wants to cash out minority shareholders before the expected approval.

Recent updates

Seeking Alpha • Sep 30

Stealth Biotherapeutics chief financial officer Robert Weiskopf leaves company

Stealth BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:MITO) said on Friday Robert Weiskopf, its chief financial officer, is leaving the company effective September 30. Weiskopf joined Stealth in 2019 following the initial public offering.
Seeking Alpha • Aug 01

Stealth BioTherapeutics shares pop ~20% premarket after co agrees to go private

Stealth BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:MITO) on Monday said it had agreed to go private by being acquired by Morningside Venture (I) Investments, over a month after the clinical-stage biotech received the investment firm's preliminary proposal. MITO stock jumped 19.9% to $0.29 in premarket trading on the announcement. As per the terms of the deal, a consortium of investors led by Morningside for itself and on behalf of its affiliates and J. Wood Capital Advisors LLC will buy MITO for $0.03125 per share and $0.375 per ADS in an all-cash transaction. The per ADS consideration represents a 56.3% premium to Stealth's (MITO) last closing price of $0.24, and a 33.9% premium to the company's closing price of $0.28 on June 24, which was the last trading day before MITO said it had got the preliminary proposal. The Morningside led consortium intends to fund the merger through cash contributions from its members. MITO said its board had approved the deal and that the merger was expected to close during H2 this year.
Seeking Alpha • Jul 26

Stealth BioTherapeutics: A Net-Net Biopharma Going Private

This seems to be an interesting going private setup currently offering a 10% upside. Majority shareholder Morningside is acquiring the remaining 33% stake in a nanocap biopharmaceutical company Stealth BioTherapeutics. The buyer has indicated that it wants to complete the transaction swiftly and without broad due diligence. Offer cancellation risk seems to be low as the company is an advanced-stage biopharma that is currently trading below net cash while the buyer seems reputable and controls the company. On June 24, Morningside Venture Investments (MVIL) issued a non-binding proposal to acquire the remaining outstanding shares of a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical Stealth BioTherapeutics (MITO). MVIL already has a 67% stake in the company. The offer is $0.313 per ADS or $0.263 after deducting ADS cancellation fees. At current prices, this offers a 10% upside (after ADS fees). Majority-of-minority shareholder approval will not be needed while the committee of independent directors is likely to accept the deal given MVIL's influence over the company. I do not expect any regulatory scrutiny from CFIUS given MITO's size. In my view, the risks here boil down to whether MVIL can walk away from the acquisition. There are several reasons why offer withdrawal seems unlikely: MITO's key phase 3 drug for Barth Syndrome seems to have a good chance of being approved by the FDA despite its rejection in October 2021. The buyer seems to be a reputable Chinese PE/VC firm and already has full control over MITO. According to the acquisition proposal, MVIL is willing complete the transaction with a "superior degree of speed" and without broad due diligence which could point to a quick buyout timeline. MITO's stock price is currently below its most recently reported net cash levels ($0.27/ADS). However, the company is burning cash at a rapid pace - the latest estimate is that the company has enough cash to fund operating expenses into Q4'22. Having said that, offer withdrawal from the Chinese company remains a risk, particularly given non-binding nature of the proposal. In my experience, non-binding takeover offers from Chinese companies generally have a noticeably lower closing rate than binding proposals. Investors should also be aware that there is a possibility that the Chinese government interrupts the payment of funds to foreign shareholders if the merger closes. MITO MITO is a ~$16m market cap clinical-stage biopharma that was founded in 2006 and IPO'ed in 2019. The company is involved in mitochondrial medicine discovery, development and commercialization. The share price has continued to decline since going public and now MITO trades close to an all-time low. This can be attributed to a couple of the company's operational failures: In 2019, MITO failed a phase 3 drug trial for a primary mitochondrial myopathy ((PNM)) drug. This was a key reason behind the 75%+ share price plunge in Dec'19. In May 2022, the company failed a phase 2 trial for elamipretide treatment for blind people. In July 2022 (already after the non-binding offer announcement) - shares sold off 15% on 5x heavier volume upon receipt of NASDAQ non-compliance warning - unlikely to be an issue while the current transaction is pending. Since the 2019 failure, the company's most advanced drug has been elamipretide for treatment of Barth Syndrome. It's currently in its Phase 3 trial. MITO has sought FDA approval for the drug since 2021. However, last fall, the FDA declined to review MITO's NDA (new drug application) as it lacked additional controlled data. The FDA recommended designing a new clinical trial instead of using historical medical records of patients as control group data. Recently, however, the drug was granted a pre-NDA meeting. Reportedly, MITO will present new clinical data collected over 3.5 years, however, it will come from the same open-label extension of the ongoing phase 2/3 study and not a new trial. The FDA has previously said that an open-label extension study would not provide enough evidence to support an NDA. However, there are several reasons to expect the FDA to eventually approve the drug: The original application showed that trial goals were met - the problem was that the data was compared to historical medical records. Nevertheless, this is encouraging and likely shows the drug's efficacy. The company has also emphasized that the trial results have been "durable" across all patients. Barth Syndrome is an ultra-rare disease - only around 130 individuals in the US have the condition. For this reason, a new clinical trial is inherently hard to design and carry out. MITO has also stated that the FDA itself did not identify a suitable trial design. BridgeBio Pharma's first FDA approval for a rare disease in early 2021 appears to be a similar case. The clinical trial relied on the same design as MITO's - historical medical records were used as control data. MITO has openly said that it did not expect the first NDA to be approved but was rather pushed by a community of Barth Syndrome advocates. The fact that now MITO has new data is encouraging. The drug for Barth Syndrome has already received orphan drug, rare pediatric and fast track designations from the FDA, showing its uniqueness and essentiality for some part of the population. There are no FDA-approved drugs for the disease and other treatments are potentially years away. The meeting is expected in Q3'22. Overall, FDA approval is far from guaranteed but it is clearly a high-potential phase 3 drug and probably explains why the controlling shareholder wants to cash out minority shareholders before the expected approval.
Seeking Alpha • Jul 11

Stealth BioTherapeutics receives Nasdaq non-compliance receipt

A clinical-stage biotechnology company, Stealth BioTherapeutics (NASDAQ:MITO) received a letter from Nasdaq on July 7, 2022 for not meeting with minimum bid price and market value of listed securities requirements.  Company requests an appeal, trading of the company's ADS will be suspended at the opening of business on July 18, 2022. Shares +1.1% after hours
Analysis Article • Dec 31

Reflecting on Stealth BioTherapeutics' (NASDAQ:MITO) Share Price Returns Over The Last Year

Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp ( NASDAQ:MITO ) shareholders should be happy to see the share price up 15% in the last...

Shareholder Returns

MITOUS BiotechsUS Market
7D-0.1%-5.1%0.2%
1Y-68.0%34.4%19.6%

Return vs Industry: MITO underperformed the US Biotechs industry which returned -14.2% over the past year.

Return vs Market: MITO underperformed the US Market which returned -21.5% over the past year.

Price Volatility

Is MITO's price volatile compared to industry and market?
MITO volatility
MITO Average Weekly Movement1.5%
Biotechs Industry Average Movement10.3%
Market Average Movement7.2%
10% most volatile stocks in US Market16.6%
10% least volatile stocks in US Market3.2%

Stable Share Price: MITO has not had significant price volatility in the past 3 months.

Volatility Over Time: MITO's weekly volatility has decreased from 14% to 2% over the past year.

About the Company

FoundedEmployeesCEOWebsite
200638Reenie McCarthywww.stealthbt.com

Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp, a clinical-stage biotechnology company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of therapies for diseases involving mitochondrial dysfunction. Its lead product candidate is Elamipretide that is in phase 3 clinical trial to treat barth syndrome, phase 2/3 clinical trial for the treatment of duchenne cardiomyopathy, phase 2a clinical trial to treat friedreich’s ataxia, phase 2 clinical trial for the treatment of dry age-related macular degeneration, phase 2 clinical trial to treat leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy, and phase 3 clinical trial for the treatment of replisome myopathies. The company’s product candidates also include SBT-20 to treat complications of diabetes, renal diseases, ocular diseases, neurodegenerative, Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, Huntington’s, and ALS diseases; SBT-550 for rare neurological indications; and SBT-272, a peptidomimetic that targets the mitochondria and stabilizing mitochondrial function under conditions of oxidative stress, as well as SBT 550.

Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp Fundamentals Summary

How do Stealth BioTherapeutics's earnings and revenue compare to its market cap?
MITO fundamental statistics
Market capUS$23.54m
Earnings (TTM)-US$52.53m
Revenue (TTM)n/a
0.0x
P/S Ratio
-0.4x
P/E Ratio

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Earnings & Revenue

Key profitability statistics from the latest earnings report (TTM)
MITO income statement (TTM)
RevenueUS$0
Cost of RevenueUS$0
Gross ProfitUS$0
Other ExpensesUS$52.53m
Earnings-US$52.53m

Last Reported Earnings

Dec 31, 2021

Next Earnings Date

n/a

Earnings per share (EPS)-0.71
Gross Margin0.00%
Net Profit Margin0.00%
Debt/Equity Ratio-30.1%

How did MITO perform over the long term?

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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2022/11/16 14:15
End of Day Share Price 2022/11/15 00:00
Earnings2021/12/31
Annual Earnings2021/12/31

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  • Balance sheet
Analyst Consensus Estimates+3 years
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  • Analyst price targets
Market Prices30 years
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  • 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

Stealth BioTherapeutics Corp is covered by 9 analysts. 2 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
null nullBMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Charles DuncanCantor Fitzgerald & Co.
Joshua SchimmerEvercore ISI