Mereo BioPharma Group plc

NasdaqCM:MREO Stock Report

Market Cap: US$584.0m

Mereo BioPharma Group Valuation

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

Valuation Score

0/6

Valuation Score 0/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Book vs Peers

  • Price-To-Book vs Industry

  • Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

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

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

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

Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As MREO barely has revenue we use its Price-To-Book Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for MREO. This is calculated by dividing MREO's market cap by their current book value.
What is MREO's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio8x
BookUS$72.54m
Market CapUS$583.97m

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

How does MREO's PB Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PB ratio for MREO vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average8.9x
ALT Altimmune
4.1x18.6%US$569.0m
FREQ Frequency Therapeutics
14.9x-4.7%US$547.3m
KROS Keros Therapeutics
1.2x-6.3%US$680.9m
QURE uniQure
15.3x25.6%US$864.2m
MREO Mereo BioPharma Group
8x61.8%US$584.0m

Price-To-Book vs Peers: MREO is expensive based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (8x) compared to the peer average (6.9x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does MREO's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Biotechs Industry?

66 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
GRAL GRAIL
0.3x35.7%US$652.19m
AMRN Amarin
0.3x-7.9%US$184.57m
LYEL Lyell Immunopharma
0.3x-14.9%US$181.41m
NKTX Nkarta
0.4x-11.5%US$170.78m
MREO 8.0xIndustry Avg. 1.8xNo. of Companies80PB01.63.24.86.48+
66 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: MREO is expensive based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (8x) compared to the US Biotechs industry average (1.8x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is MREO's PB Ratio compared to its Fair PB Ratio? This is the expected PB Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

MREO PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio8x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate MREO's Price-To-Book 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?

The above table shows the analyst MREO forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$3.73
US$7.46
+100.1%
16.3%US$10.02US$5.91n/a7
Dec ’25US$3.61
US$7.16
+98.7%
10.4%US$7.97US$5.99n/a5
Nov ’25US$4.28
US$7.40
+72.8%
10.2%US$8.34US$6.26n/a5
Oct ’25US$4.17
US$7.40
+77.4%
10.2%US$8.34US$6.26n/a5
Sep ’25US$4.69
US$7.22
+54.0%
10.4%US$8.03US$6.02n/a5
Aug ’25US$3.98
US$7.14
+79.4%
10.2%US$7.95US$5.96n/a5
Jul ’25US$3.63
US$7.14
+96.7%
10.2%US$7.95US$5.96n/a5
Jun ’25US$3.45
US$6.28
+82.1%
6.5%US$6.99US$6.04n/a4
May ’25US$3.15
US$6.22
+97.4%
7.5%US$7.02US$5.93n/a4
Apr ’25US$3.41
US$5.74
+68.3%
19.0%US$6.99US$3.99n/a4
Mar ’25US$3.97
US$4.97
+25.2%
24.9%US$7.01US$3.96n/a4
Feb ’25US$3.98
US$4.25
+6.7%
9.9%US$4.98US$3.99n/a4
Jan ’25US$2.31
US$4.36
+88.6%
10.9%US$5.18US$4.00n/a4
Dec ’24US$2.22
US$4.24
+90.9%
10.4%US$5.00US$3.97US$3.614
Nov ’24US$2.00
US$4.24
+111.9%
10.4%US$5.00US$3.97US$4.284
Oct ’24US$1.29
US$4.28
+231.5%
10.5%US$4.91US$3.93US$4.173
Sep ’24US$1.44
US$4.36
+203.1%
10.5%US$5.01US$3.96US$4.693
Aug ’24US$1.35
US$4.45
+230.0%
11.7%US$5.18US$4.01US$3.983
Jul ’24US$1.32
US$4.34
+229.1%
10.8%US$5.01US$3.99US$3.633
Jun ’24US$1.01
US$4.31
+326.9%
11.5%US$5.01US$3.92US$3.453
May ’24US$1.23
US$4.36
+254.1%
10.8%US$5.02US$4.00US$3.153
Apr ’24US$0.71
US$4.28
+505.3%
9.8%US$5.01US$4.02US$3.414
Mar ’24US$0.87
US$4.30
+394.7%
12.9%US$5.27US$3.95US$3.974
Feb ’24US$0.97
US$4.48
+361.7%
11.5%US$5.35US$4.01US$3.984
Jan ’24US$0.75
US$4.43
+491.1%
11.3%US$5.29US$4.00US$2.314
Dec ’23US$0.79
US$4.34
+448.5%
10.6%US$5.13US$4.02US$2.224

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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Company Analysis and Financial Data Status

DataLast Updated (UTC time)
Company Analysis2024/12/27 13:58
End of Day Share Price 2024/12/27 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

* example for US securities, for non-US equivalent regulatory forms and sources are used.

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Analyst Sources

Mereo BioPharma Group plc is covered by 10 analysts. 7 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Jack AllenBaird
Yun ZhongBTIG
Julian HarrisonBTIG