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Track IMDX free→NASDAQHealth CareDiagnostics & ResearchSnapshot 2026-06-16
Recent financial performance sits below its industry cohort — worth keeping an eye on, though it has not freshly broken.
Recent financial performance is neutral. Earnings quality is fragile, meaning profits lack cash support. Management's recent track record has been steady. Risk is elevated, and the sector backdrop is a headwind. Compared with sector peers, IMDX is below typical. Peer multiples imply a price about 246% below where it trades (it looks expensive on this basis); the read is expensive, growth-justified. This assessment is provisional.
Daily closes. Earnings/event dots are placed inline.
A consensus fair price across 2 valuation methods, at three horizons. Current price $5.32. Estimates are diagnostics, not price targets. Short-horizon estimates are close to coin-flips, so confidence is a method-agreement read, not a prediction.
No-growth: today's peer multiple on trailing earnings. The headline read.
Embeds projected growth. Leans optimistic by design. Upside context.
We take the 12-month fair value above and grade our own number — how the market prices this name versus what we'd justify, and where the two diverge.
At $5.70, IMDX's earnings are too small for P/E to mean much; on sales it trades at 41× p/s (10.3× the 4× p/s peer median). At a normal multiple the price implies ~128% near-term growth vs our ~-60% forecast. That gap is an optionality premium a financial-multiple model can't price — our $2.50 fair value covers only the as-is business, low confidence. Not investment advice.
One valuation read at a 12-month horizon, plus how price compares to peers and the company's own history.
The market is pricing in roughly 246% near-term growth, well above our forecast of about -60%. This describes what's priced in, not a forecast of the move.
TTM earnings are negative, so the read leans on sales- and cash-flow-based methods rather than P/E. This is a data condition, not a forward call.
Flags: expensive valuation, weak execution quality. Capped at elevated by the Mania regime.
Each factor is a parallel diagnostic with a clear read of what it shows and how names like it have historically fared. Never aggregated into a single score.
Operating income rose in 1 of the last 3 quarter-over-quarter moves. Historically, Health Care names rated neutral grew net income 50% of the time over the next year (vs 57% for the rest of the cohort, n=3115).
Over the trailing year it converted -10.29x of net income into operating cash flow. Historically, Health Care names rated fragile grew net income 40% of the time over the next year (vs 56% for the rest of the cohort, n=1703).
Not enough signal yet.
Not enough signal to read sensitivity to the broad stock market, the US dollar, real (inflation-adjusted) rates, long-term interest rates, Fed net liquidity.
6 material management or governance events in the past 24 months, led by M&A activity. Historically, Health Care names rated neutral grew net income 58% of the time over the next year (vs 50% for the rest of the cohort, n=842).
The next print and the backdrop around it (sector regime and the AI cycle). Context for the path, not a forecast of returns.
EPS estimate $0.00 → $-0.23. 0 raised, 0 cut, 1 covering analysts.
0 upgrades, 0 downgrades / 30d. 50% of analysts rate Buy.
How management runs the business: capital, margins, balance sheet, and how reliably they guide and deliver.
A guidance track record builds as the company issues and delivers on guidance.
What a normal day, a bad day, and the worst of the last year would mean for a $10,000 position.
On a typical day, $10k can swing ±$383.
How much price usually moves either way.
On a bad day, this stock has moved -$875.
A rough but not unusual down day (about the 95th percentile).
In the worst 12 months, $10k could have lost $6,993.
Deepest peak-to-trough drop in the last year.
Past results, not a forecast. Not investment advice.
The most important moves since the prior daily snapshot.
No material changes since the prior snapshot.
as of 2026-06-16
Specific, dated things to watch for, each with what would confirm it and what would prove it wrong.
Why it matters: If healthcare revenue growth speeds up, it may mean a better time for IMDX.
Confirms one read:Healthcare sector revenue growth speeds up to 10% or more.
Confirms the other:Healthcare revenue growth keeps slowing down below 10%.
Recent news graded against this company's own objectives — whether it reinforces or challenges the thesis, and how confirmed it is.
Threatens: Reduce cash burn to $6M per quarter
Cash burn above $9M threatens cost reduction objective.
Conditional scenarios: if X happens, the view would shift in this direction. These are not predictions.
Recent SEC 8-K filings ranked by likely impact, confidence, and recency.
of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Such information shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless…
Whether the overall read has been drifting up or down lately, and how it's changed since last week.
Not investment advice. Scores describe historical and current data; they are not forecasts of future returns. Consult a licensed advisor before making investment decisions.
Long-thesis check; widest uncertainty.
TTM earnings are negative. P/E-based methods drop out and the estimate leans on sales- and cash-flow-based methods. A data condition, not a forward call.
For similar setups historically (n=2,301): about 43% saw a 20%+ drawdown, and roughly 77% of those did not recover within the year. These are historical base rates for the cohort, not a forecast of this stock.
Looks more expensive than peers.
Self-history needs ~20 months of data.
Trailing four: 2025-Q1, 2025-Q2, 2025-Q3, 2026-Q1
A side-by-side read on sector standing, valuation, and risk versus Life Sciences Tools & Services.
| Stock | Sector standing | Valuation | Risk |
|---|---|---|---|
IMDX Insight Molecular Diagnostics Inc | Below typical Show detailsSector percentile: 13 of 100 | expensive | elevated |
TMO Thermo Fisher Scientific | Above typical Show detailsSector percentile: 95 of 100 | fair | moderate |
DHR Danaher Corporation | Above typical Show detailsSector percentile: 97 of 100 | fair | moderate |
A Agilent Technologies | Above typical Show detailsSector percentile: 94 of 100 | full | moderate |
WAT Waters Corporation | Above typical Show detailsSector percentile: 89 of 100 | fair | moderate |
Not investment advice. As of 2026-06-16.
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Tailwind = sector leading the S&P 500; headwind = trailing. Both can be constructive. Historically, headwind regimes have averaged stronger forward returns than tailwind.
Context label only: describes the market state (e.g. real bear vs narrative panic, healthy uptrend vs late-stage froth). It is not a per-ticker buy/sell signal and does not predict factor performance.
Not investment advice. As of 2026-06-16.
Priorities management has stated in recent disclosures, with status and evidence drawn from earnings calls, filings, and press releases.
Management aims to achieve regulatory marketing authorization to begin product sales.
Entered into a Specimen Collection Agreement with Quest Diagnostics for specimen collection services.
Management aims to reduce cash burn to historical levels of $6 million per quarter by the second half of 2026.
announcing that it had entered into a Specimen Collection Agreement with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (“Quest Diagnostics”). This information was inadvertently filed under
of this Current Report on Form 8-K, including Exhibit 99.1 hereto, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. Such information shall not be deemed incorporated by reference into any filing of the Company under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, whether made before or after the date hereof, regardless…
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. On February 20, 2026, Insight Molecular Diagnostics Inc. (the “Company”) entered into a Specimen Collection Agreement (the “Agreement”) with Quest Diagnostics Incorporated (“Quest Diagnostics”). Pursuant to the Agreement, Quest Diagnostics will provide certain specimen collection-related services related to specimens upon which Provider will perform a GraftAssureCore™ test, a blood test designed to measure donor-derived cell free DNA (dd-cfDNA) usin…
Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement. On February 10, 2026, Insight Molecular Diagnostics Inc. (the “ Company ”) entered into securities purchase agreements (the “ Purchase Agreements ”) with certain institutional investors, pursuant to which the Company agreed to issue and sell (i) 3,482,498 shares (the “ Shares ”) of the Company’s common stock, no par value per share (the “ Common Stock ”), and (ii) Pre-Funded Warrants (the “ Pre-Funded Warrants ”) to purchase up to 1,043,478 shares o…