In late January 2026, Idorsia announced an exclusive license and supply agreement with EMS S.A. to register and commercialize its insomnia drug QUVIVIQ (daridorexant) across Latin America, including milestone payments of US$20,000,000, supply revenues, and double-digit royalties in Brazil and Mexico.
Alongside this expansion for QUVIVIQ, fresh long-term data for Idorsia’s Fabry disease candidate lucerastat have drawn attention to the company’s broader late-stage pipeline.
We will now examine how the EMS agreement for QUVIVIQ in Latin America shapes Idorsia’s investment narrative and future growth drivers.
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For Idorsia to make sense as an investment today, you need to believe that QUVIVIQ can scale into a meaningful global insomnia brand while the late-stage pipeline, led by lucerastat, eventually converts into additional revenue streams. The EMS deal in Latin America helps that story at the margin: US$20,000,000 in milestones, future supply revenues, and double-digit royalties in Brazil and Mexico support the move toward a more diversified, partnership-heavy model, but do not remove the core near-term catalysts or risks. The big swing factors still sit with regulatory progress and commercialization for lucerastat and aprocitentan, along with QUVIVIQ uptake in existing markets. Against this, Idorsia remains unprofitable, carries negative equity, has recently diluted shareholders, and its share price has been highly volatile, so execution risk remains front and center.
But there is one financial pressure point here that current and potential shareholders should not overlook. According our valuation report, there’s an indication that Idorsia’s share price might be on the expensive side.
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Three Simply Wall St Community fair values cluster between CHF4.00 and CHF5.86, showing how far apart retail expectations can be. Set these against Idorsia’s ongoing losses and balance sheet strain, and it becomes clear why performance could still hinge on how quickly partnered products translate into sustainable cash generation.
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