
To own Damora Therapeutics, you have to buy into a pure development story. The business has no revenue, is running sizeable losses and is expected to stay unprofitable over the next few years. That puts the spotlight on execution around its mutCALR and leukemia pipeline, access to funding and the ability to manage dilution. The latest quarterly loss and the nine month cash burn figure reinforce that this is a capital hungry model rather than a self funding one.
The fresh option grants sit neatly with that reality. Management is still hiring and using equity to pull in specialist talent, which points to a focus on getting trials run and data generated. In the near term, the earnings release mainly confirms the existing risk profile, including reliance on higher risk funding sources and the absence of near term revenue catalysts. Analyst targets that sit well above the current US$23.70 price indicate there is still appetite for the Damora Therapeutics story, but the operational bar remains high.
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