Compugen Ltd. Ordinary Shares (CGEN)

FairStock Score: 95/100 — HIGH CONVICTION

Key Financials

Current Price$1.94
Market Cap$280M
P/E Ratio5.11
ROE50.64%
Dividend Yield—%
SectorHealthcare

AI Analysis

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

I look for durable competitive advantages, honest earnings, and a margin of safety. Compugen does not fit that mold neatly. It is a clinical-stage biotech with 75 employees, developing immuno-oncology antibodies COM701 and COM902, both still in Phase 1. The moat, if any, is pipeline intellectual property and trial data, not a proven commercial franchise. The only filed operating period supplied is fiscal Q2 2026, when revenue was $2.6 million and net loss was $7.0 million, a negative margin of 269.25%. That is not a self-funding enterprise. The balance sheet looks low-leverage: D/E 0.03, while FairStock's ROE is 50.64% and ROCE is 15.46%. But FairStock's Piotroski F-Score is only 2/9 and Altman Z-Score is -0.62, warning of weak financial quality. At the 2026-10-13 close of $1.98, FairStock's P/E is 5.21, P/B is 2.11, Graham Number is $2.83, and margin of safety is 30.04%. EV/EBITDA is 9.00 and PEG is 1.14. Those are not obviously expensive, but a low P/E in a clinical-stage biotech can be fragile if losses recur. Beta is 2.79, and the 52-week range is $1.43-$3.24, which speaks to speculation. The computed Lynch category is none because there are only 0 years of filed results versus the 3 needed. I would treat this as a speculative pipeline bet, not a classic value compounder, and demand far more evidence of durable cash generation before calling it a bargain.

In plain English: Compugen is a small healthcare company that researches and develops cancer treatments. It is not yet consistently profitable: in fiscal Q2 2026 it had $2.6 million in revenue and lost $7.0 million. The share price looks lower than one conservative estimate of value, but the business is early-stage and financially fragile, so it is not clearly cheap or safe.

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

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