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Our Buy recommendation is kept on PHO share at NOK 90/sh TP (80). We expect the stock to recover as good news keep coming in from new markets plus the existing business should continue turning a corner.
Seasonally slower 3Q, but good YoY improvement seen
Photocure will release its 3Q23 report on November 8th. We estimate revenues of NOK 115m, which is up 18% YoY and down marginally QoQ (-2%). We see in-market unit volume sales with a good growth YoY in Europe (7.5%) after rather sluggish same quarter last year. Volumes in the US were strong in 3Q22 and flexible cystoscope contributions are waning, thus we do not see major growth in this market for 3Q23. Our model points to EBITDA of around zero, but much depends on the extent of business development spending, which varies a lot from quarter to quarter. All in all, we expect 3Q to show a consistent improvement in financial performance of PHO.
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