Evotec models a strongly favorable risk/reward asymmetry and an early technical recovery, but a quality-floor breach, sharply declining revenue, and a still-confirmed downtrend keep the setup on exit watch.
Thesis pillars
- Quality Floor Breach↓Deteriorating
- Large Favorable Asymmetry→Stable
- Declining Revenue→Stable
- +2 more pillars — see the Why tab for full reasoning
Evotec SE (EVO) Stock Analysis
Recovery setup · Inst Constrain edge
Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - Specialty & Generic
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $1.96: Quality below floor (1.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.4/10 and A.R:R 8.4:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend.
Evotec SE operates as a drug discovery and development company in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Shared R&D and Just Evotec Biologics. The company is developing pharmaceutical products in... Read more
Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $1.96: Quality below floor (1.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.4/10 and A.R:R 8.4:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 53. Score 4.4/10, moderate confidence.
Passes 8/10 gates (positive momentum, favorable risk/reward ratio, clean insider activity, no SEC red flags, news events none recent, earnings proximity no date, semi cycle peak clear, materials cycle peak clear). Fails on death cross (50MA < 200MA). Suitability: speculative.
Recent developments
updated 2026-08-16Recent Developments — Evotec SE
Latest news
- NEWS Evotec Q2 EPS $(0.15) Misses $(0.06) Estimate, Sales $166.802M Miss $212.370M Estimate — benzinga Aug 13, 2026 negative
- NEWS Evotec Affirms FY2026 Sales Guidance of $667.470M-$714.310M vs $673.750M Est — benzinga Aug 13, 2026 positive
- NEWS Odyssey Taps Evotec's AI-Driven Discovery Platform To Advance Autoimmune, Inflammatory Disease Programs — benzinga Aug 6, 2026 positive
- NEWS Niagen Bioscience Announces Selection Of Evotec As Contract Research Organization For IND-Enabling Studies Of NB4168 In — benzinga Aug 3, 2026 positive
- NEWS Evotec Partners With Navan To Replace Fragmented Travel And Expense Tools With One Automated Global Platform — benzinga Jul 23, 2026 positive
Generated 2026-08-16T21:32:08Z.
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Rating Breakdown
4 floor-breakers·1 ceiling hit
Revenue shrinking — -16.2% YoY. Growth thesis broken unless recovery story develops.static
Unprofitable operations — net margin -27.5%. Quality floor flags this regardless of sector context.static
No near-term catalyst priced in. Thesis progression will come from fundamentals grinding, not event reaction.static
Ranks in the bottom of its industry peers on the composite signal. Better names in the same sector exist.static
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Sell if holding. Engine safety override at $1.96: Quality below floor (1.6 < 4.0) triggers a hard block regardless of the otherwise-positive setup — overall score 4.4/10 and A.R:R 8.4:1 is above the 1.5:1 BUY gate. Specifically: Below-average business quality; Below long-term trend. Chart setup: Death cross but MACD improving, RSI 53. Prior stop was $1.84. Score 4.4/10, moderate confidence.
Take-profit target: $3.26 (+66.1% upside). Prior stop was $1.84. Stop-loss: $1.84.
Quality below floor (1.6 < 4.0).
Evotec SE trades at a P/E of N/A (forward -10.3). TrendMatrix value score: 9.3/10. Verdict: Sell.
12 analysts cover EVO with a consensus score of 3.6/5. Average price target: $4.
What does Evotec SE do?Evotec SE operates as a drug discovery and development company in the United States, Germany, France, the United...
Evotec SE operates as a drug discovery and development company in the United States, Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and internationally. It operates in two segments, Shared R&D and Just Evotec Biologics. The company is developing pharmaceutical products in various therapeutic areas, such as oncology, autoimmune, cancer, diabetes, heart failure, immunology, pain and inflammation, infectious, kidney, liver, respiratory, fibrotic and metabolic diseases, and rare diseases. It is also developingcentral nervous system (CNS) and cardiometabolic diseases; and animal and women health. The company has collaboration agreements with Mass General Brigham and Joslin Diabetes Center focusing on cardiometabolic diseases; BMS antiviral; Novo Nordisk cell therapy; University of Oxford; German Cancer Research Center; University Hospital in Hamburg; University of Toronto, Harvard, and Yale; Johns Hopkins University; Ospedale San Raffaele (OSR); and National University of Singapore. In addition, it has a partnership with LAB282, LAB150, beLAB2122, beLAB1407, LAB eN², Danube Labs, VC Amplitude Ventures, LaB eN2, and 65LAB. Further, the company serves pharma and biotechnology companies, academic institutions, patient advocacy groups, and venture capital. Evotec SE has strategic collaboration with Almirall, S.A. for the development of novel therapeutics for severe skin diseases, including a range of immune-mediated inflammatory conditions. The company collaborate with Odyssey Therapeutics, Inc. to designs and develops AI based discovery platform to discover new treatments in autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The company was formerly known as Evotec AG and changed its name to Evotec SE in April 2019. Evotec SE was incorporated in 1993 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.