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Summit Therapeutics IncSMMTCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Health Care›Biotechnology

Biotech developing ivonescimab, a bispecific antibody cancer drug licensed from China's Akeso, targeting lung and other solid tumors.

Momentum neutral 54
Mkt cap
$13.1B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
19%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$75.5M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
n/a
WACC 6.4%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
132 days
18 Mar 2027
Close · USD$16.33
1D+15.1%
1W+1.9%
1M-4.9%
3M+9.8%
6M-9.7%
YTD-6.6%
1Y-9.6%
ATR %7.1%
Beta1.79
52w lowhigh44.1% off high

What Summit Therapeutics does

Biotech developing ivonescimab, a bispecific antibody cancer drug licensed from China's Akeso, targeting lung and other solid tumors.

Has no approved product and no sales; it pays for clinical trials with money raised from investors, and owes Akeso milestone payments and royalties if ivonescimab is approved and sells. Its rights cover markets outside China, where Akeso keeps the drug.

Products and services

  • Ivonescimab (bispecific antibody, oncology pipeline)

Customers

  • Oncologists treating lung and other solid-tumor ca

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Healthcare
  • Biotechnology
  • Oncology drug in-licensing and clinical…

What could go right

  • Positive head-to-head trial data versus Keytruda
  • Potential blockbuster oncology approval

What could go wrong

  • Single-asset concentration risk
  • Binary clinical trial/regulatory outcome risk

Moat: narrow (IP / patents). Exclusive ex-China rights to a promising bispecific antibody showing competitive trial data versus Merck's Keytruda.

Headquarters: Menlo Park, California, US · Founded: 2003 · Employees: 265

Named competitors

Summit Therapeutics at a glance

Size Summit Therapeutics (SMMT) is a United States Health Care company (Biotechnology) with a market value of $13.1B, the 661st largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $16.33 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 9.7%, against +9.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 4th lowest of 21 in its peer set.

Short interest Short interest is 5.1% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 18 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

8010012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 117SMMT 88
Six months, rebased to 100: Summit Therapeutics against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Summit Therapeutics financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$0$0$0$0$705,000
Revenue growth———-100%—
Gross profit-$174,000-$146,000-$89,000-$2.05M-$1.81M
EBITDA-$875M-$1.09B-$211M-$87.7M-$76.8M
Net income-$856M-$1.08B-$221M-$615M-$78.8M
Free cash flow-$458M-$324M-$142M-$76.9M-$42.2M
Capital expenditure$1.38M$657,000$139,000$128,000$624,000
Total debt$20.4M$20.9M$7.22M$106M$519M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Summit Therapeutics competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%+100%-20%0%ELAN1093BBIOHALOTECHKYMRBMRN002422196170NBIXPCVXKRYS1548ARWRTWSTTXGCAIUTHRAXSMSMMT6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Summit Therapeutics is the large dot.

Summit Therapeutics competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (SMMT vs MRK vs 9926.HK vs BMY)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
Summit Therapeutics SMMT$13.1B-10%n/an/an/an/a
Merck & MRK$362B+33%+5%18%5.4×4.1%
Akeso 9926.HK$10.2B-38%+42%-25%19.5×n/a
Bristol Myers Squibb BMY$127B+12%+4%33%3.2×-12.9%

How Summit Therapeutics compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Summit Therapeutics against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureSMMTPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-4.9%-4.6%11th highest of 21
6-month return-9.7%+9.5%4th lowest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-44.1%-22.0%4th lowest of 21

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Summit Therapeutics SMMTUnited States$13.1B-10%n/an/an/an/an/a
Elanco Animal Health ELANUnited States$12.9B+9%+12%7%3.2×34.8%+7.6%
Cspc Pharma 1093.HKHong Kong$12.4B+5%+25%28%2.2×-10.3%+0.1%
BridgeBio Pharma BBIOUnited States$14.5B+10%+167%-37%18.3×n/an/a
Halozyme Therapeutics HALOUnited States$11.8B+62%+41%57%8.2×2.5%+39.2%
Bio-Techne TECHUnited States$11.4B+51%0%22%9.4×31.3%+5.5%
Kymera Therapeutics KYMRUnited States$11.2B+53%+134%-396%101.2×n/an/a
BioMarin Pharmaceutical BMRNUnited States$10.9B+4%+20%19%3.9×6.5%+12.0%
Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical 002422.SZChina$10.8B+30%0%9%3.9×7.2%+2.3%
ALTEOGEN 196170.KSSouth Korea$10.3B-46%+61%53%43.0×29.8%+38.5%
Neurocrine Biosciences NBIXUnited States$16.7B+8%+38%25%4.4×-1.7%+22.3%
Vaxcyte PCVXUnited States$10.1B+21%n/an/an/an/an/a
Krystal Biotech KRYSUnited States$8.92B-2%+26%48%17.1×11.9%+26.0%
Genscript Biotech 1548.HKHong Kong$8.81B+96%+53%12%9.9×36.5%+19.8%
Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals ARWRUnited States$8.22B-20%+17%-34%11.9×n/an/a
Twist Bioscience TWSTUnited States$7.95B+112%+19%-32%18.2×n/an/a
10x Genomics TXGUnited States$7.72B+174%-4%-14%11.8×41.8%+16.6%
BioNTech SE Sponsored ADR BNTXUnited States$22.8B-7%-1%-38%2.0×5.7%+42.6%
Caris Life Sciences CAIUnited States$7.13B+56%+85%15%6.9×18.7%+85.4%
United Therapeutics UTHRUnited States$24.1B-1%+2%44%6.9×-0.4%+16.5%
Axsome Therapeutics AXSMUnited States$6.96B-39%+54%-19%7.9×n/an/a

Questions

Who are Summit Therapeutics's main competitors?
Named competitors: Merck & Co. (Keytruda) (MRK), Akeso Inc. (9926.HK), Bristol Myers Squibb (BMY). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Elanco Animal Health (ELAN), Cspc Pharma (1093.HK), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO), Halozyme Therapeutics (HALO), Bio-Techne (TECH), Kymera Therapeutics (KYMR).
How has Summit Therapeutics stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -9.7% against +9.5% for the median peer; over one year -9.6%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.