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PEPG (PepGen) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) : $-40.87 (As of Jul. 15, 2025)


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What is PepGen Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)?

As of today (2025-07-15), PepGen's intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Earnings model is $-40.87.

Note: Discounted Earnings model is only suitable for predictable companies (Business Predictability Rank higher than 1-Star). If the company's predictability rank is 1-Star or Not Rated, result may not be accurate due to the low predictability of business and the data will not be stored into our database.

PepGen's Predictability Rank is Not Rated. Thus, this page is only used for demonstration purposes and the DCF related results in the screener and portfolio will appear as zero.

Margin of Safety (Earnings Based) using Discounted Earnings model for PepGen is N/A.

The historical rank and industry rank for PepGen's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) or its related term are showing as below:

PEPG's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) is not ranked *
in the Biotechnology industry.
Industry Median: 1.21
* Ranked among companies with meaningful Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) only.

PepGen Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Historical Data

The historical data trend for PepGen's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) can be seen below:

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.

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PepGen Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Chart

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Competitive Comparison of PepGen's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)

For the Biotechnology subindustry, PepGen's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based), along with its competitors' market caps and Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


PepGen's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, PepGen's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where PepGen's Price-to-DCF (Earnings Based) falls into.


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PepGen Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Calculation

This is the intrinsic value calculated from the Discounted Earnings model with default parameters. The calculation method is the same as Discounted Cash Flow model except earnings are used in the calculation instead of free cash flow. This is the default method of calculation with GuruFocus DCF calculator.

Usually a two-stage model is used in calculating the intrinsic value with discounted cash flow model. The first stage is called growth stage; the second is called the terminal stage. In the growth stage the company grows at a faster rate. Because it cannot grow at that rate forever, a lower rate is used for the terminal stage.

GuruFocus DCF calculator is a two-stage model. The default values are defined as:

1. Discount Rate: d = 11%
A reasonable discount rate assumption should be at least the long term average return of the stock market, which can be estimated from risk free rate plus risk premium of stock market. GuruFocus uses 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate as the risk-free rate and rounded up to the nearest integer. It is updated daily. The current risk-free rate is 4.49%. Please go to Economic Indicators page for more information. Please note that we use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the country/region where the company is headquartered. If the data for that country/region is not available, then we will use the 10-Year Treasury Constant Maturity Rate of the United States as default. Then we added a risk premium of 6% to get the estimated discount rate. Some investors use their expected rate of return, which is also reasonable. A typical discount rate can be anywhere between 6% - 20%.

2. Growth Rate in the growth stage: g1 = 6.90%
The Growth Rate in the growth stage is initially set as the default 10-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. In cases where the 10-year growth rate is unavailable, it defaults to using the 5-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate. If both the 10-year and 5-year growth rates are unavailable, the system defaults to the 3-Year EPS without NRI Growth Rate.
However, it's important to note that there is a growth rate range. If the calculated growth rate exceeds 20%, it will be capped at 20%. Conversely, if the calculated growth rate falls below 5%, it will be adjusted to 5% to maintain a reasonable range.
=> PepGen's average EPS without NRI Growth Rate in the past 3 years was 6.90%, which is between 5% and 20%. => GuruFocus defaults => Growth Rate: 6.90%

3. Years of Growth Stage: y1 = 10

4. Terminal Growth Rate: g2 = 4%

5. Years of Terminal Growth: y2 = 10

6. EPS without NRI: eps without nri = $-3.130.
GuruFocus DCF calculator is actually a Discounted Earnings calculator, EPS without NRI is used as the default. The reason we are doing this is we found that historically stock prices are more correlated with earnings than free cash flow.

All of the default settings can be changed and the results are calculated automatically.

PepGen's Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) for today is calculated as:

Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)=EPS without NRI*{[(1+g1)/(1+d)+(1+g1)^2/(1+d)^2+...+(1+g1)^10/(1+d)^10]
+(1+g1)^10/(1+d)^10*[(1+g2)/(1+d)+(1+g2)^2/(1+d)^2+...+(1+g2)^10/(1+d)^10]}

set x = (1+g1)/(1+d) = (1+0.069)/(1+0.11) = 0.96306306306306
and y = (1+g2)/(1+d) = (1+0.04)/(1+0.11) = 0.93693693693694

Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)=EPS without NRI*{[x+x^2+...+x^10]+x^10*[y+y^2+...+y^10]}
=EPS without NRI*[x*(1-x^10)/(1-x)+x^10*y*(1-y^10)/(1-y)]
=-3.130*13.059
=-40.87

Margin of Safety % (DCF Earnings Based)=(Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)-Current Price)/Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based)
=(-40.87-1.24)/-40.87
=N/A

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


PepGen  (NAS:PEPG) Intrinsic Value: DCF (Earnings Based) Explanation

Unlike valuation methods such as Net Current Asset Value, Tangible Book Value per Share, Graham Number, Median Ratio etc, discounted Cash Flow model evaluates the companies based on their future earnings power instead of their assets.


Be Aware

What you need to know about Discounted Earnings model:

1. The Discounted Earnings model evaluates a company based on its future earnings power
2. Growth is taken into account; therefore a faster growth company is worth more if everything else is the same.
3. Since we are projecting future growth, it is assumed that the company will grow at the same rate as it did during the past 10 years. Therefore this model works better for the companies that are relatively consistent performers.
4. The Discounted Earnings model works poorly for inconsistent performers like cyclicals.
5. Your expected return from the investment is a reasonable discount rate assumption.
6. A larger margin of safety should be required for companies with less predictable businesses.

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PepGen Business Description

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Address
321 Harrison Avenue, 8th Floor, Boston, MA, USA, 02118
PepGen Inc is a clinical-stage biotechnology company advancing the next generation of oligonucleotide therapeutics to transform the treatment of severe neuromuscular and neurologic diseases. The company has developed its Enhanced Delivery Oligonucleotide platform to improve the uptake and activity of conjugated oligonucleotide therapeutics. Its EDO peptides are engineered to optimize tissue penetration, cellular uptake, and nuclear delivery, and in preclinical studies, it is observed their ability to transport oligonucleotides into a broad range of target tissues, including smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle and the central nervous system. Its pipeline products are; PGN-EDO51, PGN-EDODM1, and others including PGN-EDO53 and PGN-EDO45.
Executives
James G Mcarthur director, officer: President and CEO NIGHTSTAR THERAPEUTICS PLC, 203 CRESCENT STREET, SUITE 303, WALTHAM MA 02453
Noel Donnelly officer: Chief Financial Officer PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Michelle L Mellion officer: See Remarks PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Niels Svenstrup officer: See Remarks PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Ra Capital Healthcare Fund Lp director, 10 percent owner 200 BERKELEY STREET, 18TH FLOOR, BOSTON MA 02116
Jaya Goyal officer: See Remarks PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Habib J Dable director C/O ACCELERON PHARMA INC., 128 SIDNEY STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02139
James E Flynn 10 percent owner, other: *Possible Member of 10% Group 780 THIRD AVENUE, 37TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10017
Oxford Science Enterprises Plc 10 percent owner 46 WOODSTOCK ROAD, OXFORD X0 OX2 6HT
Laurie Keating director 300 THIRD STREET, CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Christopher Ashton director PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Deerfield Management Company, L.p. (series C) 10 percent owner, other: *Possible Member of 10% Group 345 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Sonia Bracegirdle officer: See Remarks PEPGEN INC., 245 MAIN ST., CAMBRIDGE MA 02142
Deerfield Mgmt V, L.p. 10 percent owner, other: *Possible Member of 10% Group 345 PARK AVENUE SOUTH, 12TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10010
Deerfield Private Design Fund V, L.p. 10 percent owner, other: *Possible Member of 10% Group 780 THIRD AVENUE, 37TH FLOOR, NEW YORK NY 10017