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$NMRA Opened a position at $0.49
Quick backstory for anyone not following this one. In Jun their lead depression drug, navacaprant, missed in its last two Phase 3 trials, making it 0-for-3, and was scrapped. The co cut about 35% of its staff, and the stock has been sold ever since... alongside the rest of small-cap biotech. It just printed a new low, and the MC sits below the $116.8M in cash it reported at Jun 30. What's left is three clinical-stage programs that the market is assigning very little value to.
Setup I'm looking at:
• Roughly $96M MC against $116.8M cash. Even after adding back ~$54M in term debt, EV is only about $33M.
• Interest-only on the debt runs through Apr 2029, so no principal comes due before the readouts.
• NMRA-511 Phase 2 moved up from Q1 2027 to year-end 2026.
Catalysts into year-end:
• NMRA-898 (M4 PAM, schizophrenia): Phase 1 MAD data in 2H 2026, covering safety, PK and CNS exposure.
• NMRA-511 (V1aR antagonist, AD agitation): higher-dose MAD cohort in healthy elderly in Q4, with Phase 2 start by year-end.
• NMRA-215 (brain-penetrant NLRP3, obesity): IND in Q4, Phase 1 by year-end.
To be clear... none of these are sure things. Early-stage programs disappoint all the time, and after Jun the market isn't giving this these guys the benefit of the doubt on any of them. That's the nature of biotech and exactly why the opportunity exists. At an EV around $33M, a lot of disappointment, IMO, is already in the price.
Just a healthy starter for now. Early-stage data rarely settles a debate on the first read, and sub-$1 puts a Nas notice on the calendar. I'd rather have room to add into the readouts than be heavy going in.
All told, this has been sold far past what the bal sheet implies. I think it starts working in anticipation of the readouts, and if they deliver, this re-rates. It lost the $1 handle in a matter of weeks on tape alone. Clean data takes it back through there quickly, and $1 is where a re-rate starts, not where it ends.
The full PL and cap structure breakdown comes once the forensic (and TA) DD wraps. Still working on it.
Anyway... just sharing my work. Check everything yourself. As always, DYOR. NFA.
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