Trinity Delta Lighthouse: Avacta
Trinity Delta view: The acquisition of Launch Diagnostics, at an undemanding 1.35x sales multiple (based on an 80% discount to COVID revenues), is the first step in Avacta’s M&A-led growth strategy for its Diagnostics Division. Launch Diagnostics will provide Avacta with a commercial infrastructure in the UK and some EU markets, to which complementary products could be added either organically through in-house development or sought externally. The latter potentially provides the opportunity for Avacta to leverage its internal expertise and platform technologies to optimise performance and economics. The proposed up to £64m gross financing would provide the balance sheet flexibility to explore such opportunities. As usual, we suspend our valuation and forecasts until deal completion.Avacta Group is a biotechnology company that is developing biotherapeutics and reagents based on its proprietary Affimer technology, an engineered alternative to antibodies. Affimer® reagents and therapeutics are a class of non-antibody binding proteins that have been engineered for a range of applications where antibodies and aptamers have limitations. Co. has two operating segments: Life Sciences, which provides custom Affimers for reagents and diagnostics, drug and biomarker discovery in biotech research and development; and Animal Health, which provides tools and contract services to assist diagnosis of conditions in animals to enable treatment for veterinarians.
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