Travere Therapeutics Inc
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Assessment
Our Rating
A journalistic assessment by our editorial team at the time of the deep dive — it rates the company, not the entry point. Not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell.
The business works in principle, but one material question is open. As long as it stays open, our findings do not carry a quality verdict.
Why this colour
The open question here is operational, not existential. The company is not fighting for survival — operating cash flow turned positive in 2025, there is no going-concern language, and the May 2026 refinancing lowered the interest burden and pushed the maturity out to 2032. What is unproven is the turn itself: the operating loss was still $62.8 million in 2025 and $36.9 million in the first quarter of 2026, the only profitable quarter was carried by one-time milestone payments, and the product margin rested on zero-cost inventories that are now used up. On top of that, the business stands on a single compound. Only when revenue grows again after the first-quarter 2026 dip, the operating result turns positive without one-time payments, and the business spreads across more than one drug does the valuation earn trust. Until then, watch FILSPARI revenue, the FSGS ramp, the operating margin after the zero-cost inventories and the cash balance.
What the thesis turns on
Assessment: Opportunities & Risks
Travere Therapeutics is a biotech at a genuine inflection point: the kidney drug FILSPARI more than doubled revenue in 2025, operating cash flow turned positive, the second approval for FSGS enlarged the market, and the May 2026 refinancing bought cheaper debt and three more years of time. But almost all the revenue hangs on that one compound, the operating loss of $62.8 million is far larger than the headline net loss, and the balance sheet carries $1.5 billion of accumulated losses against less than $100 million of equity. A bet on a single drug. Not investment advice.
Business model & market
A specialist in rare kidney diseases with genuine niche protection: FILSPARI has been fully approved for IgAN since September 2024 and additionally for FSGS since April 13, 2026 — two diseases with high unmet need and orphan-drug exclusivity. The addressable market grew with the second approval.
Revenue growth
A documented turn: group revenue more than doubled in 2025, to $490.7 million from $233.2 million, and FILSPARI alone rose to $322.0 million from $132.2 million. Operating cash flow swung to plus $37.8 million after minus $237.5 million the year before.
Earnings quality
The headline flatters the business. The net loss of $25.5 million (2025) sits against an operating loss of $62.8 million; the first quarter of 2026 alone brought another $36.9 million. The only operationally profitable quarter, the third of 2025, was carried by $57.5 million of one-time CSL Vifor milestones, and the roughly 98.6 percent product gross margin rested on zero-cost inventories the 10-K describes as essentially used up.
Product concentration & competition
One-product risk: commercial success depends, per the company's own annual report (10-K), "almost entirely" on FILSPARI; about 78 percent of product revenue and more than 98 percent of net product sales from a single country. And that one product is under attack — the IgAN market is drawing competitors, above all Novartis with atrasentan (Vanrafia), while revenue eased in the first quarter of 2026 to $127.2 million from $129.7 million. The Everest license for civorebrutinib (June 1, 2026) is the first answer to the concentration, but it is clinical, not commercial.
Balance sheet & financing
An accumulated deficit of $1,509.8 million against just $98.7 million of equity (March 31, 2026) — but the financing improved markedly after that date. The May 2026 refinancing cut the coupon from 2.25 to 0.50 percent, moved the maturity to 2032 and left about $157.6 million of net cash in the company. The price: convertible principal up to roughly $619.9 million and up to 11,729,182 shares issuable on conversion.
Valuation
On the last price documented in a filing ($44.76 on May 6, 2026) and about 93.0 million shares, the market value is roughly $4.2 billion — about 8.5 times the $490.7 million of 2025 revenue. The market is already paying for a future blockbuster. Analyst consensus nonetheless "buy" (15 analysts, data as of July 8, 2026).
Worth Noting
FILSPARI first received accelerated approval for IgAN in February 2023 (on the surrogate marker proteinuria) and full FDA approval in September 2024; the FSGS approval followed on April 13, 2026.
The revenue spike in the third quarter of 2025 ($164.9 million) contains one-time license and milestone payments — $57.5 million of CSL Vifor market-access and regulatory milestones among them — and should not be mistaken for run-rate product revenue.
The figures in this analysis distinguish the weighted average share count (89.2 million for 2025, 91.9 million for the first quarter of 2026) from shares actually outstanding (about 93.0 million as of April 30, 2026, per the 10-Q cover page); the market value is calculated on the latter.
Everything after the first-quarter 2026 report was reviewed: the convertible offering of May 11, 2026, the Everest Medicines license of June 1, 2026, and an 8-K of July 9, 2026 announcing the planned retirement of the chief accounting officer after the 10-K expected in February 2027 — the last of these does not change the picture.
In our company-level AI classification, Travere is rated "uses AI": internal use of generative AI and machine learning, but no AI revenue stream.
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Price history
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52-week range: 23.70 $ to 67.50 $ · Last price: 64.70 $ (As of: September 17, 2026)
Key figures
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Basics
Performance
Technical Indicators
Calculated from the price history · as of 09/18/2026
Valuation
Profitability
Balance Sheet & Safety
Growth
Dividend
This stock currently pays no dividend.
Quality & Screener
Highlighted are things our editorial team noticed: green = stands out as strong, red = deserves a closer look. No single metric is a verdict on its own — always read it in context.
Comparison
Industry comparison
The stock alongside the largest companies in the same group. The median row is the middle value of the companies shown above — not of the whole industry.
Industry: Biotechnology
| Company | Market cap ($B) | P/E | EV/EBITDA | Gross Margin % | EBIT Margin % | Sales Growth (Year) % | Perf. 1Y % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Travere Therapeutics Inc TVTX | 5.9 | – | 1,042.1 | 59.2 | -29.0 | 110.5 | 173.7 |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc VRTX | 130.6 | 31.3 | 24.5 | 55.0 | 38.1 | 9.6 | 33.4 |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals Inc REGN | 82.0 | 19.9 | 13.1 | 44.5 | 20.7 | 1.0 | 35.5 |
| Moderna Inc MRNA | 62.7 | – | 4.6 | -66.0 | -131.1 | -39.2 | 532.3 |
| argenx NV ARGX | 61.9 | 38.1 | 34.2 | 59.1 | 32.0 | 89.6 | 30.9 |
| Revolution Medicines Inc RVMD | 40.9 | – | -9.7 | -174,708.6 | 0.0 | -100.0 | 338.3 |
| BeiGene, Ltd. ONC | 40.0 | 63.1 | 34.1 | 88.9 | 19.1 | 40.2 | 6.4 |
| Alnylam Pharmaceuticals Inc ALNY | 32.6 | 61.8 | 28.4 | 79.7 | 23.0 | 65.2 | -48.1 |
| Royalty Pharma Plc RPRX | 32.5 | 31.8 | 19.6 | 95.8 | 100.3 | 5.1 | 68.6 |
| Median of companies shown | 40.9 | 34.9 | 24.5 | 59.1 | 20.7 | 9.6 | 35.5 |
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Fiscal years
Annual Figures
Fiscal years from the audited annual reports, oldest first. EBIT is the operating profit before interest and taxes; total assets are everything the company owns.
Revenue, operating income and net income per fiscal year $M
Revenue Operating income Net income
| Fiscal Year | Revenue ($M) | EBIT ($M) | Net Income ($M) | EPS ($) | Operating Cash Flow ($M) | Equity ($M) | Total Assets ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 134 | -58 | -48 | -1.25 | -2 | 308 | 525 |
| 2017 | 155 | -54 | -60 | -1.54 | 7 | 293 | 520 |
| 2018 | 164 | -80 | -103 | -2.54 | -25 | 318 | 709 |
| 2019 | 175 | -100 | -146 | -3.46 | -58 | 221 | 605 |
| 2020 | 198 | -176 | -169 | -3.56 | -43 | 211 | 607 |
| 2021 | 132 | -199 | -180 | -3.01 | -15 | 302 | 777 |
| 2022 | 109 | -320 | -278 | -4.37 | -186 | 43 | 673 |
| 2023 | 145 | -388 | -111 | -1.50 | -280 | 201 | 789 |
| 2024 | 233 | -324 | -322 | -4.08 | -237 | 59 | 594 |
| 2025 | 491 | -63 | -26 | -0.29 | 38 | 115 | 605 |
Quarters
Quarterly Figures
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Revenue & Profit
Cash Flow
Balance Sheet
Margins
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| Quarter | EPS (Earnings Per Share) | EPS YoY (%) | Sales ($M) | Sales YoY (%) | Net Margin (%) | OCF ($M) | FCF ($M) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024: Q4 | -0.73 | – | 75 | 66.00 | -80.60 | -36 | -45 |
| 2025: Q1 | -0.47 | – | 82 | 97.50 | -50.40 | -42 | -54 |
| 2025: Q2 | -0.14 | – | 114 | 111.50 | -11.10 | 5 | 5 |
| 2025: Q3 | 0.25 | – | 165 | 162.10 | 15.60 | 14 | 14 |
| 2025: Q4 | 0.03 | – | 130 | 73.40 | 2.10 | 61 | 61 |
| 2026: Q1 | -0.40 | – | 127 | 55.60 | -29.20 | -40 | -63 |
| 2026: Q2 | -0.37 | -164.30 | 170 | 48.30 | -20.50 | 58 | 58 |
What Do These Terms Mean?
- EPS (Earnings Per Share):
- Quarterly profit divided by the total share count — how much of the profit works out to a single share.
- YoY (Year over Year):
- Change versus the same quarter a year ago — this is how you compare without seasonal distortion (e.g. the holiday shopping season).
- Sales:
- All revenue for the quarter, before any costs are deducted — the top line of the income statement.
- Net Margin:
- What percentage of sales is left over as profit in the end. Negative means the company is posting a loss.
- OCF (Operating Cash Flow):
- The cash that actually flows into the till from the core business during the quarter — harder to dress up than book profit.
- FCF (Free Cash Flow):
- Operating cash flow minus capital expenditures — the money that's genuinely free to use, say for paying down debt, buybacks, or dividends.
Screening
Appears in These Scanners
This stock currently matches 28 of our scanner strategies — each hit links to the scanner.
Growth
- Ben Bennett: Focus List
- High Revenue Growth
- Matt Caruso: Sales Leader
- Patrick Walker: 40, 40 Screen
- Ted Zhang: Super Stock Universe
Quality & Balance Sheet
Breakout & Setup
Momentum & Trend
- 21-EMA Trend
- Above the 50- & 200-SMA
- Gary Antonacci: Dual Momentum (Stock Adaptation)
- High ADR (≥5%)
- Mark Minervini: Trend Criteria — 1 Month
- Mike Webster: Power Trend Leader
- Mike Webster: Swing Trading List
- Near 52-Week High
- Oliver Kell: Strength on Down Day
- Power Trend
- Qullamaggie: Trend Intensity (13/65)
- RS Leader (≥90)
- RS New Highs
- Richard Moglen: Top Performers 3/6 Month
- Stage 2 Leader
- Stan Weinstein: Stage 2
Risk & Weakness
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Outlook
Analysts & Price Target
Combined picture of the price targets and recommendations of every analyst covering the stock. Price targets are expectations for the next 12 months, not promises — and they often follow the price rather than predict it.
Distribution of Recommendations
Estimates by Fiscal Year
| Fiscal Year | EPS Estimate ($) | EPS Range ($) | Revenue Estimate ($M) | Expected Growth | Analysts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12/31/2026 | 1.74 | 0.96 – 2.95 | 725 | 91.4% | 8 |
| 12/31/2027 | 5.67 | 3.50 – 6.95 | 1,082 | 225.7% | 8 |
Average of the analyst estimates for the coming fiscal years. The range shows how far the most optimistic and the most cautious estimate sit apart — the wider it is, the less certain the expectation.
Valuation
What is priced in?
Instead of guessing what the stock is worth, we turn the question around: what free cash flow growth has to happen for today’s market value to add up? The assumptions behind it can be moved.
Today’s market value implies roughly 31.9% growth in free cash flow per year over ten years (assumptions: discount rate 10.0%, terminal growth 2.5%).
| Free cash flow (last twelve months) | $51.5M |
|---|---|
| Market cap | $5.92B |
| Free cash flow in year ten | $821.3M |
| Terminal value as a share of market value | 73.0% |
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A simplified model calculation — not a forecast and not a recommendation.
AI classification
AI Rating
Travere Therapeutics ist ein Biopharma-Unternehmen für seltene Nierenerkrankungen (FILSPARI, Thiola) — KI ist keine Umsatzquelle. Der jüngste 10-K (GJ 2025) und der 10-Q Q1 2026 belegen aber ausdrücklich den operativen Einsatz: Mitarbeiter nutzen generative KI, Machine Learning und automatisierte Entscheidungssysteme für ihre Arbeit („Our employees and personnel use generative artificial intelligence …“), und das Unternehmen räumt ein, dass ein Verzicht auf KI das Geschäft ineffizienter machen und Wettbewerbsnachteile bringen würde. Die übrigen KI-Erwähnungen sind Datenschutz-/Cyber-Risikoklauseln rund um diese eigene Nutzung — kein konkretes Geschäftsmodell-Risiko, keine KI-Produkte.
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„Our employees and personnel use generative artificial intelligence, machine learning and other artificial intelligence technologies (together, “AI/ML”) and/or automated decision-making technologies to perform their work, and the disclosure and use of personal data in AI/ML technologies is subject to various privacy laws and other privacy obligations."
Unsere Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter nutzen generative künstliche Intelligenz, maschinelles Lernen und andere KI-Technologien (zusammen „AI/ML“) und/oder automatisierte Entscheidungstechnologien für ihre Arbeit; die Offenlegung und Verwendung personenbezogener Daten in AI/ML-Technologien unterliegt verschiedenen Datenschutzgesetzen und weiteren Datenschutzpflichten.
10-K · 2026-02-19 · View SEC filing
„If we are unable to use AI/ML and/or automated decision-making technologies in the future, it could make our business less efficient and result in competitive disadvantages."
Sollten wir AI/ML und/oder automatisierte Entscheidungstechnologien künftig nicht nutzen können, könnte das unser Geschäft ineffizienter machen und zu Wettbewerbsnachteilen führen.
10-K · 2026-02-19 · View SEC filing
„Any sensitive information (including confidential, competitive, proprietary, or personal data) that we input into a third-party generative AI/ML platform could be leaked or disclosed to others, including if sensitive information is used to train the third parties’ AI/ML model."
Sämtliche sensiblen Informationen (einschließlich vertraulicher, wettbewerbsrelevanter, geschützter oder personenbezogener Daten), die wir in eine generative AI/ML-Plattform eines Drittanbieters eingeben, könnten durchsickern oder an Dritte gelangen — etwa wenn sensible Informationen zum Training des AI/ML-Modells des Drittanbieters verwendet werden.
10-Q · 2026-05-04 · View SEC filing
Filings Reviewed: 10-Q 2026-05-04 · 10-Q 2025-10-30 · 10-Q 2025-08-06 · 10-Q 2025-05-01 · 10-K 2026-02-19 · 10-K 2025-02-21
Rated on July 8, 2026 · How the Rating Is Built
Growth
Growth Score
Ten checks against the annual reports — each one passed counts a point.
- Revenue grows by more than 15% a year over three years 64.9%
- More than 10% revenue growth is expected for the coming year 38.9%
- Share count grows by less than 3% a year 11.9%
- Revenue growth plus cash-flow margin add up to at least 40 ("Rule of 40") 106.3%
- Gross margin at 40% or higher and without meaningful erosion 97.9%
- Goodwill from acquisitions does not grow faster than revenue 0.0%
- Net debt below twice EBITDA 0.3 x EBITDA
- Operating cash flow covers the profits of the last three years -21 m
- Return on capital at 15% or higher, or up versus two years ago -14.1%
- Insiders hold at least 10% or are net buyers 0.8%
A criterion without figures counts neither as passed nor as failed; a score is only produced from 7 judgeable criteria upwards. Source: fundamental data. All ten criteria in detail
Quality check
AAQS
4/10The AAQS (AlleAktien Quality Score) checks 10 quality criteria on growth, profitability, and balance-sheet strength — per the methodology developed and published by AlleAktien, calculated by us from our own fundamental data. A stock counts as a quality stock from 9 out of 10 points. Where a company has a shorter listing history, we calculate over the fiscal years available (at least five).
- Sales growth 10Y > 5% 15.6%
- Exp. sales growth 3Y > 5% 48.5%
- EBIT growth 10Y > 5% –
- Exp. EBIT growth 3Y > 5% 48.5%
- Net debt < 4x EBIT –
- EBIT positive, 10Y straight 0
- Max. EBIT decline < 50% –
- Return on equity > 15% -1,491.5%
- ROCE > 15% -14.1%
- Expected return > 10% 48.0%
View stocks with the full AAQS score · Read the methodology at AlleAktien
Source: fundamental data
Insiders
Insider Transactions
Reportable transactions by officers and major shareholders from SEC Form 4 filings. "Other" includes things like stock grants and option exercises without a buy/sell character.
| Date | Person | Role | Type | Shares | Price | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 10, 2026 | Meckler Jeffrey A | Director | Sell | 3,100 | 68.09 | 211,073 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Meckler Jeffrey A | Director | Sell | 14,000 | 67.46 | 944,488 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Meckler Jeffrey A | Director | Sell | 1,200 | 66.15 | 79,380 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Meckler Jeffrey A | Director | Sell | 1,700 | 65.39 | 111,166 |
| Sep 10, 2026 | Meckler Jeffrey A | Director | Other | 10,000 | 26.52 | 265,200 |
| Sep 2, 2026 | Cline Christopher R. | CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER | Sell | 642 | 66.37 | 42,610 |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Lyons Gary A | Director | Sell | 900 | 63.86 | 57,470 |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Lyons Gary A | Director | Sell | 4,100 | 63.27 | 259,390 |
| Aug 18, 2026 | Lyons Gary A | Director | Other | 5,000 | 17.44 | 87,200 |
| Aug 17, 2026 | Lyons Gary A | Director | Sell | 500 | 64.16 | 32,081 |
The company
About the Company
Travere Therapeutics, Inc., ein biopharmazeutisches Unternehmen, identifiziert, entwickelt und liefert Therapien für Menschen mit seltenen Nieren- und Stoffwechselerkrankungen in den USA.
- CEO Insider Trades (12 Mo.)
- selling own stock
- Employees
- 497
- Headquarters
- San Diego, CA
- Address
- 3611 Valley Centre Drive, 92130 San Diego, United States
- Phone
- 888 969 7879
- Website
- travere.com
- IPO Date
- 11/08/2012
- ISIN
- US89422G1076
- Stock Split
- 1:9 on 11/02/2012
- Stock Split
- 1:100 on 07/02/2009
Management
| Name | Title | Birth Year |
|---|---|---|
| Eric M. Dube Ph.D. | President, CEO & Director | 1973 |
| Christopher Cline C.F.A. | Chief Financial Officer | 1985 |
| William E. Rote Ph.D. | Chief Research Officer | 1963 |
| Peter Heerma | Chief Commercial Officer | 1971 |
| Jula Inrig M.D. | Executive VP, Head of Research & Development and Chief Medical Officer | 1975 |
| Sandra Calvin | SVP & Chief Accounting Officer | 1966 |
| Nivi Nehra | Vice President of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations | – |
| Elizabeth E. Reed J.D. | Chief Legal Officer, General Counsel & Secretary | 1971 |
| Angela Giannantonio | Chief People Officer | – |
| Casey Logan | Chief Business Officer | – |
Executives per the latest required filings; titles kept in their original language. Source: fundamental data.
Filings
Company Filings (8-K)
An 8-K is the filing a US company must use to disclose material events immediately — takeovers, changes at the top, major contracts or payment troubles, for instance. The links open the original document at the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
- 08/04/2026 Travere Therapeutics, Inc. (TVTX): Results of Operations and Financial Condition; Financial Statements and Exhibits SEC ↗
- 07/09/2026 Travere Therapeutics, Inc. (TVTX): Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers: Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers SEC ↗
Data as of: September 17, 2026 · Source: fundamental data & SEC filings (annual and quarterly reports, 10-K/10-Q)
Note: pure fact-based analysis, not investment advice and not a solicitation to buy or sell. All figures without guarantee.