Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

NasdaqGS:TERN Stock Report

Market Cap: US$497.7m

Terns Pharmaceuticals Valuation

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

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

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

Key Valuation Metric

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

Key metric: As TERN is unprofitable and pre-revenue we use its Price-To-Book Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Book ratio for TERN. This is calculated by dividing TERN's market cap by their current book value.
What is TERN's PB Ratio?
PB Ratio1.4x
BookUS$364.47m
Market CapUS$497.74m

Price to Book Ratio vs Peers

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

The above table shows the PB ratio for TERN vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PBEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average2.3x
AVIR Atea Pharmaceuticals
0.6x3.2%US$269.4m
PLRX Pliant Therapeutics
2.3x-0.6%US$803.9m
MIST Milestone Pharmaceuticals
5x63.6%US$119.2m
ATAI Atai Life Sciences
1.4x34.6%US$199.7m
TERN Terns Pharmaceuticals
1.4x-14.2%US$497.7m

Price-To-Book vs Peers: TERN is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (1.4x) compared to the peer average (2.3x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Industry

How does TERN's PB Ratio compare vs other companies in the US Pharmaceuticals Industry?

27 CompaniesPrice / BookEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
CTXR Citius Pharmaceuticals
0.2x55.3%US$20.09m
RLMD Relmada Therapeutics
0.2x12.5%US$10.95m
TNFA TNF Pharmaceuticals
0.2xn/aUS$3.75m
SHWZ Medicine Man Technologies
0.04xn/aUS$3.21m
TERN 1.4xIndustry Avg. 1.6xNo. of Companies27PB012345+
27 CompaniesEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Book vs Industry: TERN is good value based on its Price-To-Book Ratio (1.4x) compared to the US Pharmaceuticals industry average (1.6x).

Price to Book Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is TERN'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.

TERN PB Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PB Ratio1.4x
Fair PB Ration/a

Price-To-Book vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate TERN'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 TERN forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
CurrentUS$5.86
US$19.06
+225.3%
40.2%US$34.00US$7.50n/a8
Dec ’25US$6.24
US$18.19
+191.5%
37.1%US$30.00US$7.50n/a8
Nov ’25US$6.94
US$17.94
+158.5%
39.9%US$30.00US$5.50n/a8
Oct ’25US$8.10
US$18.07
+123.1%
42.3%US$30.00US$5.50n/a7
Sep ’25US$7.62
US$14.21
+86.5%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Aug ’25US$7.77
US$14.21
+82.9%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Jul ’25US$6.85
US$14.21
+107.5%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Jun ’25US$6.01
US$14.21
+136.5%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
May ’25US$5.08
US$14.21
+179.8%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Apr ’25US$7.10
US$14.21
+100.2%
38.5%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Mar ’25US$7.31
US$14.50
+98.4%
38.4%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Feb ’25US$5.26
US$14.50
+175.7%
38.4%US$22.00US$5.50n/a7
Jan ’25US$6.49
US$14.29
+120.1%
30.6%US$19.00US$8.00n/a7
Dec ’24US$5.22
US$14.29
+173.7%
30.6%US$19.00US$8.00US$6.247
Nov ’24US$5.25
US$15.43
+193.9%
25.2%US$19.00US$8.00US$6.947
Oct ’24US$5.03
US$16.63
+230.5%
29.0%US$25.00US$8.00US$8.108
Sep ’24US$5.37
US$16.44
+206.2%
27.8%US$25.00US$8.00US$7.629
Aug ’24US$7.18
US$16.33
+127.5%
23.1%US$23.00US$10.00US$7.779
Jul ’24US$8.75
US$16.33
+86.7%
23.1%US$23.00US$10.00US$6.859
Jun ’24US$11.30
US$16.14
+42.9%
26.2%US$23.00US$10.00US$6.017
May ’24US$12.93
US$13.80
+6.7%
26.9%US$19.00US$9.00US$5.085
Apr ’24US$11.84
US$13.80
+16.6%
26.9%US$19.00US$9.00US$7.105
Mar ’24US$10.43
US$12.60
+20.8%
41.6%US$19.00US$6.00US$7.315
Feb ’24US$8.94
US$9.00
+0.7%
39.5%US$14.00US$6.00US$5.263
Jan ’24US$10.18
US$9.00
-11.6%
39.5%US$14.00US$6.00US$6.493
Dec ’23US$6.97
US$7.00
+0.4%
20.2%US$9.00US$6.00US$5.223

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 Analysis2024/12/22 13:00
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

Terns Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is covered by 11 analysts. 8 of those analysts submitted the estimates of revenue or earnings used as inputs to our report. Analysts submissions are updated throughout the day.

AnalystInstitution
Etzer DaroutBMO Capital Markets Equity Research
Corinne JohnsonGoldman Sachs
Corinne JohnsonGoldman Sachs