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Dutton Associates Announces Investment Opinion: MorphoSys AG Speculative Buy Rating And Higher Target Price In Update Coverage By Dutton Associates
18:19 30.04.07
EL DORADO HILLS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dutton Associates continues its coverage of MorphoSys AG (ADR OTC:MPSYY) (XETRA:MOR) maintaining its Speculative Buy rating and raising its ADR price target to $90 (€66.2). The 10-page report by Dutton senior analyst Steve Handley is available at www.jmdutton.com as well as from First Call, Bloomberg, Zacks, Reuters, Knobias, and other leading financial portals.
MorphoSys AG, headquartered in Munich, Germany, is a leader in the development of human antibodies. It exceeded management’s financial targets in 2006, with a sales gain of 58%, to €53 million (organic growth was 22%), and a profit of €6.0 million. Importantly, there was a continuation of strategic steps aimed at establishing multiple sources of future earnings, by capitalizing on the accelerating demand for new antibody-based therapeutics and research tools. Management’s long-term objective is to grow revenues at least 15%-20% per year until such time as its proprietary HuCAL® drugs reach the market in 5-6 years, when it expects growth to accelerate sharply. As we have emphasized previously, the pattern of quarterly EPS is likely to remain uneven and difficult to predict near term, as illustrated by the recently reported results for the first quarter of 2007, in which revenues declined 4.9%, and profit from operations fell 71%. (There was an unnecessarily high level of success-based payments in 1Q 2006.) Management nevertheless believes the Company remains on track to reach this year’s financial targets. We continue to believe that investors should focus primarily on the Company’s fundamental underlying momentum, which is positioning it to become, in time, a highly profitable company. In short, we judge that MorphoSys’ revenue growth and earnings prospects are excellent. We have raised our 12-month price target to $90 per share, or about €66. |