Celebrations may be in order for Roivant Sciences Ltd. (NASDAQ:ROIV) shareholders, with the analysts delivering a significant upgrade to their statutory estimates for the company. The revenue forecast for next year has experienced a facelift, with the analysts now much more optimistic on its sales pipeline.

Following the latest upgrade, the five analysts covering Roivant Sciences provided consensus estimates of US$43m revenue in 2026, which would reflect a painful 65% decline on its sales over the past 12 months. Per-share losses are expected to see a sharp uptick, reaching US$1.17. However, before this estimates update, the consensus had been expecting revenues of US$36m and US$1.19 per share in losses. We can see there's definitely been a change in sentiment in this update, with the analysts administering a sizeable upgrade to next year's revenue estimates, while at the same time reducing their loss estimates.

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Despite these upgrades, the analysts have not made any major changes to their price target of US$16.00, implying that their latest estimates don't have a long term impact on what they think the stock is worth.

These estimates are interesting, but it can be useful to paint some more broad strokes when seeing how forecasts compare, both to the Roivant Sciences' past performance and to peers in the same industry. These estimates imply that sales are expected to slow, with a forecast annualised revenue decline of 57% by the end of 2026. This indicates a significant reduction from annual growth of 24% over the last five years. By contrast, our data suggests that other companies (with analyst coverage) in the same industry are forecast to see their revenue grow 21% annually for the foreseeable future. It's pretty clear that Roivant Sciences' revenues are expected to perform substantially worse than the wider industry.

The Bottom Line

The highlight for us was that the consensus reduced its estimated losses next year, perhaps suggesting Roivant Sciences is moving incrementally towards profitability. Pleasantly, analysts also upgraded their revenue estimates, and their forecasts suggest the business is expected to grow slower than the wider market. Given that analysts appear to be expecting substantial improvement in the sales pipeline, now could be the right time to take another look at Roivant Sciences.

Even so, the longer term trajectory of the business is much more important for the value creation of shareholders. At Simply Wall St, we have a full range of analyst estimates for Roivant Sciences going out to 2027, and you can see them free on our platform here..

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