ADC Therapeutics SA Common Shares (ADCT)

FairStock Score: 34/100 — RISKY

Key Financials

Current Price$1.44
Market Cap$184M
P/E Ratio-2.4
ROE—%
Dividend Yield0%
SectorHealthcare

AI Analysis

AI-generated, general educational analysis — not personal investment advice.

Looking at ADC Therapeutics at $1.70 as of 2026-10-13, with a $217.0M market cap, I see a commercial biotech whose flagship ZYNLONTA has approvals in the U.S., EU, and China, but whose financials show a business still searching for durability. In the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, revenue was $81.4M and net loss was $142.6M, or EPS -$1.12. That improved from the fiscal year ended 2024-12-31, when revenue was $70.8M and net loss was $157.8M, or EPS -$1.62, but the company still burned a great deal of money. In fiscal Q2 2026, the quarter ended 2026-06-30, revenue was $18.6M and net loss was $16.6M, or EPS -$0.11; that loss is much smaller than fiscal Q2 2025, the quarter ended 2025-06-30, when net loss was $56.6M, or EPS -$0.50. Still, trailing free cash flow is -$102.3M, a -47.1% FCF yield against the market cap, per FairStock. The Piotroski F-Score is 3/9 and Altman Z-Score is -7.64, so the fundamental and balance-sheet signals are distressed. FairStock calculations put the P/E at -2.83 and ROCE at -19.57%; P/B is N/A, so I cannot lean on book value as a backstop from this data. A wide moat is not evident; the company depends heavily on one flagship approved product with limited revenue scale and a high beta of 1.86. The stock may be a lottery ticket on clinical or commercial success, but Graham-style value requires a margin of safety from earnings, assets, or cash flow, and I do not see that here. Growth is modest and profitability remains the key hurdle.

In plain English: ADC Therapeutics is a small healthcare company that makes a targeted cancer medicine called ZYNLONTA for a type of lymphoma. The business is not yet profitable, has lost money for years, and spends more cash than it brings in, so its finances look weak. At $1.70 a share, the price may look low, but because there are no real profits to value it against, it does not look clearly cheap based on the numbers.

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Data as of 2026-10-13 close · note generated 2026-10-15 · model deepseek-flash

Sources (SEC EDGAR): fiscal Q2 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-06-30) · fiscal Q1 2026 10-Q (period ended 2026-03-31) · fiscal Q3 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-09-30) · fiscal Q2 2025 10-Q (period ended 2025-06-30) · FY2025 10-K (period ended 2025-12-31) · FY2024 10-K (period ended 2024-12-31) · FY2023 10-K (period ended 2023-12-31)

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