• If you are wondering whether Amprius Technologies' current share price reflects its potential or is running ahead of itself, the valuation story is where to focus next.
• The stock last closed at US$16.43, after falling 24.4% over the past week and 7.1% over the past month, while still sitting on a 391.9% gain over the past year and a 74.2% return over three years.
• Recent coverage of Amprius Technologies has centered on its role in advanced battery technology and how investor expectations are being shaped by developments around its commercialization plans and sector interest. This backdrop helps explain why the share price has moved sharply in both directions over shorter periods, even as longer term returns remain strong.
• Simply Wall St currently assigns Amprius Technologies a value score of 3 out of 6, reflecting where the stock screens as undervalued across different checks, and the sections that follow will unpack those valuation methods before finishing with a broader way to think about what the current price really implies.

Approach 1: Amprius Technologies Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis

A Discounted Cash Flow, or DCF, model estimates what a stock could be worth by projecting the company’s future cash flows and discounting them back to today’s value. It is essentially a way of asking what all those potential future dollars are worth in today’s terms.

For Amprius Technologies, the model used is a 2 Stage Free Cash Flow to Equity approach based on cash flow projections. The company currently reports trailing twelve month free cash flow of a loss of $71.11 million. Analyst and extrapolated estimates move this to projected free cash flow of $437.02 million in 2035, with interim years stepping through both losses and positive cash flows as shown in the ten year schedule.

When all those projected cash flows are discounted back to today using the DCF model, Simply Wall St arrives at an estimated intrinsic value of about $29.10 per share. Compared with the recent share price of $16.43, this output suggests the stock screens as materially undervalued, with an implied discount of 43.5%.

Result: UNDERVALUED

Our Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) analysis suggests Amprius Technologies is undervalued by 43.5%. Track this in your watchlist or portfolio, or discover 48 more high quality undervalued stocks.

Approach 2: Amprius Technologies Price vs Sales

For companies where profits are still developing or earnings are volatile, the P/S ratio is often a practical way to compare what investors are paying for each dollar of revenue. Higher expected growth or perceived lower risk usually supports a higher “normal” P/S multiple, while slower growth or higher risk tends to justify a lower one.

Amprius Technologies trades on a P/S ratio of 26.28x. This sits well above the Electrical industry average P/S of 2.48x and also above the peer group average of 14.63x, so at face value the stock carries a premium compared with both its sector and similar companies.

Simply Wall St’s Fair Ratio for Amprius Technologies is 6.97x. This is a proprietary estimate of what a reasonable P/S multiple could be for this specific company, taking into account factors such as its growth profile, profit margins, industry, market capitalization and risk characteristics. Because it is tailored to the company, it can be more informative than relying only on broad industry or peer comparisons. Setting the current 26.28x P/S against the Fair Ratio of 6.97x indicates that, on this measure, the stock currently screens as expensive.

Result: OVERVALUED

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Upgrade Your Decision Making: Choose your Amprius Technologies Narrative

Earlier it was mentioned that there is an even better way to understand valuation. Narratives are Simply Wall St’s way of letting you attach a clear story and set of assumptions to Amprius Technologies, linking your view on its future revenue, earnings and margins to a forecast, a Fair Value, and then an explicit comparison with the current price. All of this is provided in a simple tool on the Community page that updates automatically when new news or earnings arrive. You can then see, for example, how one investor’s Narrative that points to a Fair Value of about US$12.25 sits alongside another that points to about US$19.25, and decide for yourself where your own view fits on that spectrum.

For Amprius Technologies however we will make it really easy for you with previews of two leading Amprius Technologies Narratives:

Fair Value: US$19.25

Implied discount versus the last close: about 15%

Revenue growth assumption: 72.21%

• Analyst commentary links strong recent earnings, customer wins across drones, satellites, light EVs, robotics and eVTOL, and contract manufacturing access to about US$600m of cell capacity to support future volume.
• The narrative leans on policy support, battery performance metrics and an expanding customer base as reasons why higher valuation multiples could be justified over time.
• Key watchpoints include reliance on growth through 2030, the need to keep large contracted capacity filled and the risk that expectations set by higher targets and guidance prove demanding to meet.

Fair Value: US$12.25

Implied premium versus the last close: about 34%

Revenue growth assumption: 101%

• This narrative sketches a path where revenue scales quickly from tens of millions of US dollars to the mid hundreds of millions over several years, but treats those figures as illustrative rather than guaranteed.
• It assumes gross margins could reach 18% to 25% based on comparisons with other battery producers, which would still leave execution risk around costs and pricing.
• The view is that even with strong growth, assigning a higher multiple such as 35x P/E requires confidence that Amprius can sustain high growth rates for many years without major setbacks.

If you want to go beyond these snapshots and see how other investors are framing upside and downside cases, you can review the wider set of community views and data driven checks in one place using the See what the community is saying about Amprius Technologies.

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