Re: Thoughts on ZCC
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Sep 06, 2021 02:29PM
Zenith's BET Inhibitor ZEN-3694 is Currently Being Evaluated in Multiple Oncology Clinical Trials
While I would agree that the PP's at current valuation are favourable to the current OTC price it still is seems to me a sizeable management failure that the price for arguably equal or superior IP plus a proportionate share of the RVX royalty preference shares is not worth something closer to the price of Constellation.
Sure, in hindsight, that's a reasonable argument. But I suspect DM thought, and probably still thinks, he can sell 3694 and get proper value for it. I think a significant part of the problem with the valuation is that ZCC is a Canadian (not American) biotech. (It's a similar situation with Bioasis vs Denali.) No respect.
And going back to the Nasdaq thing, from what I see, ZCC has never been close to qualifying for a Nasdaq listing. They would have to do a huge reverse split to get there IMO. I agree it's a frustrating situation we're in, but as I've said before, new management could be a disaster. We could easily get someone who wipes out current shareholders with a massive financing.
I think management needs to work on selling a position to one of their BP trial partners at a fair price and then using that as a bench mark for PP's. Not the same as, but similar to when quite awhile back Trillium sold 10 million shares to Pfizer at premium to market.
I don't see that as a possibility. With Eastern and NGN repeatedly buying at $1-$2, I don't think any pharma is going to pay more for what would be a relatively small position. Strikes me as way too generous of them. I think buying 3694 would be much more likely.
I don't spend a lot of time thinking about what should be. I look at what is probably a significantly undervalued ZCC and what I can do in response to that. That's all I have control over. That said, I'd certainly like to see DM asked some pointed questions at the AGM about where he sees us heading over the next few years.