{"id":325945,"date":"2025-12-03T23:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325945\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:14:15","slug":"is-this-asx-healthcare-stock-a-buy-low-candidate-after-falling-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/325945\/","title":{"rendered":"Is this ASX healthcare stock a buy low candidate after falling 35%?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/three-medics-1200x675.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Three health professionals at a hospital smile for the camera.\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>Image source: Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Trajan Group Holdings Ltd (<a class=\"tickerized-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-trj\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ASX: TRJ<\/a>) is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/small-cap\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">small-cap<\/a> ASX healthcare stock that has fallen 34.95% in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/investor.trajanscimed.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Trajan Group Holdings<\/a> is a developer and manufacturer of analytical and life sciences products and devices, seeking to enrich human well-being through scientific measurement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Its current portfolio of products comprises products, devices, and solutions that are used in the analysis of biological, food, and environmental samples.<\/p>\n<p>Broker Bell Potter released fresh analysis on the company yesterday, which included a buy recommendation and optimistic price target.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Here is what the broker had to say.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Improving sentiment, headwinds easing <\/p>\n<p>The report said that the headwinds from Academic\/Government segments in both US &amp; China, appear to be easing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The broker also said tariff mitigation should be completed by FY26 through a combination of pricing and cost out programmes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Instrument sales still face challenges from funding pressures, however consumables business appears to be holding up.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Bell Potter also noted this ASX healthcare stock is beginning to utilise <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/investing-education\/ai-shares-asx\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">AI technology<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, AI is beginning to creep into management commentary with a range of AI agents being developed to speed up lead conversion and software development.<\/p>\n<p>As sentiment and operating performance amongst TRJ&#8217;s US peers improves, so should TRJ&#8217;s financial results.<\/p>\n<p>The broker did note that market acceptance depends on the company&#8217;s ability to improve testing products and to introduce new products successfully, while proving its offerings are superior to competing technologies.<\/p>\n<p> AGM results\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>Trajan Group also recently held its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/tickers\/asx-trj\/announcements\/2025-10-28\/3a679891\/2025-annual-general-meeting-chair-address-and-presentation\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2025 AGM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The company reported:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>  Group revenue of $166.5M, up 7.4% from pcp.\u00a0 Group <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com.au\/definitions\/ebitda\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">EBITDA<\/a> $15.5M, up 26.2%.\u00a0 Operating NPATA rose 33.3%.\u00a0   <\/p>\n<p>Overall, the company maintained revenue guidance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on the AGM results, Bell Potter said the key catalyst for the company is demonstrating improvement in EBITDA margins.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 1Q26 revenue is slightly ahead of pcp but segment performance is patchy, with Components &amp; Consumables (C&amp;C) revenue up a solid c.10%, but Capital Equipment (CE) down c.20% with an expected recovery through the year.<\/p>\n<p>  Price target upside <\/p>\n<p>In yesterday&#8217;s report, Bell Potter maintained its buy recommendation and target price of $1.25 for this ASX healthcare stock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Based on yesterday&#8217;s closing price of $0.67, this indicates an upside of approximately 86%.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Guidance remains in the LSD% range but sentiment is improving, through industry tailwinds (or headwinds easing) including efficiencies, volume leverage, strength in pharma, chemicals and CDMOs, as well as China stimulus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image source: Getty Images Trajan Group Holdings Ltd (ASX: TRJ) is a small-cap ASX healthcare stock that has&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252720,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[64,63,137,500],"class_list":{"0":"post-325945","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-healthcare"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325945","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325945"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325945\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}