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Molten Ventures (GROW) Share Price & Analysis
GROW Stock Chart & Stats
- Day’s Range
- GBX 662.11 - GBX 689.50
- 52-Week Range
- GBX 391.20 - GBX 722.50
- Previous Close
- GBX 685.00
- Volume
- 793.09K
- Average Volume (3M)
- 752.85K
- Market Cap
- GBP 1.14B
- Enterprise Value
- GBP 866.34M
- Total Cash (Recent Filing)
- GBP 51.70M
- Total Debt (Recent Filing)
- GBP 130.80M
- Price to Earnings (P/E)
- 9.8
- Beta
- 1.47
- Next Earnings
- Nov 24, 2026 (Est.)
- EPS Estimate
- N/A
- Next Dividend Ex-Date
- N/A
- Dividend Yield
- N/A
Bulls Say, Bears Say
Bulls Say
Portfolio Fair-value Growth
Positive fair-value progression indicates that underlying portfolio companies are generating measurable investment gains across the cycle. The predominance of write-ups over reductions supports NAV growth, strengthens the firm’s investment track record, and can improve future realization potential.
Strong Core Portfolio Performance
A concentrated group of high-performing core holdings provides the main engine for durable returns. Strong expected growth, high gross margins, and increasing profitability indicate scalable businesses that can support portfolio appreciation and future cash proceeds.
Balance Sheet And Operating Discipline
Cash reserves, available borrowing capacity, and lower operating costs give Molten flexibility to support successful portfolio companies without excessive financial leverage. This combination also improves resilience through uneven exit markets and supports continued investment and capital management.
Bears Say
Volatile Cash Generation
The history of negative operating and free cash flow makes cash conversion less dependable than the latest profit rebound suggests. Sharp year-to-year swings can constrain predictable reinvestment, distributions, and debt-management capacity when portfolio exits are delayed.
Early-stage Portfolio Write-down Risk
Material losses across earlier-stage holdings demonstrate the downside risk embedded in Molten’s venture portfolio. Such write-downs can reduce NAV, offset gains from successful investments, and create continued earnings volatility as company outcomes diverge.
Uncertain Exit Timing
Dependence on secondary transactions and uncertain trade-sale or IPO windows makes realization proceeds difficult to forecast. Delayed exits can extend holding periods, postpone cash inflows, and leave reported returns exposed to changing conditions for venture-backed companies.
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Company Description
Molten Ventures
Molten Ventures Plc, formerly known as Draper Esprit plc, is a private equity and venture capital firm that deploys capital across the entire business lifecycle. This includes early-stage investments such as seed and Series A funding, growth capital, pre-initial public offering (IPO) rounds, late-stage opportunities, cross-stage deals, buyouts, and private investments in public equity (PIPEs). Beyond direct investments, the firm also makes secondary acquisitions of stakes in existing portfolio companies and purchases entire funds from other technology investors. Their investment focus is on technology-driven enterprises, typically backing companies from their pre-revenue phase onward. A significant portion, 30%, of their investment corpus is allocated to very early-stage businesses generating less than $5 million in annual revenue. Molten Ventures targets a wide array of tech sectors, including digital technology, consumer and enterprise solutions, e-commerce, data and analytics, systems and semiconductors, financial technology (fintech), internet and mobile applications, media, telecommunications, SaaS, deeptech, digital health & wellness, healthcare, software, hardware, medical technology, and life sciences. Geographically, the firm concentrates its investment activities within Europe, with a particular emphasis on Ireland and the United Kingdom. Investment sizes generally fall between $0.02 million and €10 million (or approximately $10.88 million), participating in funding rounds that can range up to €1 million (around $1.09 million) and €30 million (roughly $32.63 million). Molten Ventures is prepared to take both minority and majority ownership positions. Established in 1984, Molten Ventures Plc has its headquarters in London, UK, and operates an additional office in Dublin, Ireland.
- Sector
- Financial
- Industry
- Asset Management
- CEO
- Benjamin David Wilkinson
- Employees
- 58
- Website
- www.moltenventures.com
- Address
- 20 Garrick Street, London, GL, WC2E 9BT, GB
Molten Ventures (GROW) Earnings & Revenues
GROW Earnings Call
Earnings Call SentimentPositive
The call highlighted clear momentum: accelerating fair value growth (13%), NAV per share uplift to 760p with a significant ICEYE-driven post-period uplift, strong core performance (3.3x MOIC), disciplined realizations (>GBP 250m since March 2024) and active initiatives to scale third‑party capital. Offsetting items include emerging‑portfolio write‑downs (~GBP 50m), isolated core weaknesses (CoachHub), ongoing valuation reductions (~GBP 120m) and a persistent share price discount to NAV. Overall the positive operational and portfolio developments — notably the ICEYE re‑rating, cash generation, buybacks and cost reduction — outweigh the contained negatives, suggesting constructive momentum but continued execution risk in earlier-stage holdings and exit timing.
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Average Price Target
Technical Analysis
Overall Consensus
| Indicator | Bullish | Neutral | Bearish |
|---|---|---|---|
| Overall Consensus | 6 | 5 | 11 |
| Technical Analysis | 2 | 5 | 3 |
| Moving Averages | 4 | 0 | 8 |