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Novavax Valuation

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

Valuation Score

5/6

Valuation Score 5/6

  • Price-To-Sales vs Peers

  • Price-To-Sales vs Industry

  • Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Analyst Forecast

Key Valuation Metric

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

Other financial metrics that can be useful for relative valuation.

NVAX 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/Revenue0.2x
Enterprise Value/EBITDA-0.2x
PEG Ration/a

Price to Sales Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PS ratio for NVAX vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyPSEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average5.5x
ALEC Alector
4.9x30.4%US$611.8m
IMTX Immatics
8.7x16.6%US$748.3m
FATE Fate Therapeutics
3.6x-7.0%US$488.0m
ADMA ADMA Biologics
4.9x13.1%US$898.0m
NVAX Novavax
0.5x1.0%US$641.2m

Price-To-Sales vs Peers: NVAX is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the peer average (5.5x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

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

0 CompaniesPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Industry Avg.n/a22.3%
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No. of CompaniesPS048121620

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Price-To-Sales vs Industry: NVAX is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the US Biotechs industry average (12.8x)


Price to Sales Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is NVAX'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.

NVAX PS Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PS Ratio0.5x
Fair PS Ratio1x

Price-To-Sales vs Fair Ratio: NVAX is good value based on its Price-To-Sales Ratio (0.5x) compared to the estimated Fair Price-To-Sales Ratio (1x).


Share Price vs Fair Value

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

Below Fair Value: NVAX ($7.43) is trading below our estimate of fair value ($63.87)

Significantly Below Fair Value: NVAX is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


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 NVAX forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$7.43
US$22.83
+207.3%
54.0%US$41.00US$9.00n/a6
May ’24US$7.72
US$39.33
+409.5%
95.6%US$110.00US$10.00n/a6
Apr ’24US$6.93
US$46.83
+575.8%
75.7%US$110.00US$10.00n/a6
Mar ’24US$6.86
US$46.83
+582.7%
75.7%US$110.00US$10.00n/a6
Feb ’24US$11.23
US$55.33
+392.7%
62.3%US$110.00US$13.00n/a6
Jan ’24US$10.28
US$61.50
+498.2%
55.2%US$110.00US$13.00n/a6
Dec ’23US$16.85
US$78.17
+363.9%
80.5%US$207.00US$16.00n/a6
Nov ’23US$22.00
US$81.33
+269.7%
77.9%US$207.00US$16.00n/a6
Oct ’23US$18.20
US$105.83
+481.5%
61.9%US$207.00US$20.00n/a6
Sep ’23US$31.95
US$144.00
+350.7%
23.2%US$207.00US$110.00n/a5
Aug ’23US$53.92
US$170.00
+215.3%
15.8%US$207.00US$132.00n/a5
Jul ’23US$57.15
US$172.00
+201.0%
15.8%US$207.00US$132.00n/a5
Jun ’23US$53.64
US$174.83
+225.9%
14.7%US$207.00US$132.00n/a6
May ’23US$45.07
US$186.83
+314.5%
9.9%US$207.00US$150.00US$7.726
Apr ’23US$74.32
US$196.00
+163.7%
15.3%US$250.00US$150.00US$6.936
Mar ’23US$83.74
US$210.50
+151.4%
22.6%US$294.00US$150.00US$6.866
Feb ’23US$95.18
US$250.00
+162.7%
22.4%US$315.00US$150.00US$11.236
Jan ’23US$143.07
US$268.00
+87.3%
13.0%US$305.00US$209.00US$10.285
Dec ’22US$192.65
US$260.60
+35.3%
18.4%US$305.00US$172.00US$16.855
Nov ’22US$172.45
US$264.20
+53.2%
14.1%US$305.00US$200.00US$22.005
Oct ’22US$181.60
US$264.20
+45.5%
14.1%US$305.00US$200.00US$18.205
Sep ’22US$252.06
US$264.20
+4.8%
14.1%US$305.00US$200.00US$31.955
Aug ’22US$179.33
US$249.60
+39.2%
19.5%US$294.00US$161.00US$53.925
Jul ’22US$215.76
US$249.60
+15.7%
19.5%US$294.00US$161.00US$57.155
Jun ’22US$145.40
US$238.60
+64.1%
20.4%US$294.00US$161.00US$53.645
May ’22US$236.93
US$323.00
+36.3%
8.4%US$365.00US$285.00US$45.075

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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