Recursion Pharmaceuticals Inc (RXRX.NASDAQ) AI OPINIONS & ADVISOR ANALYSIS
Read and compare the 11 individual AI Advisor deep-dive reports, including their forecast paths, ratings, price targets, and reasoning.
Updated on 3 May 2026Deep analysis 3 May 2026
Superintelligence AI
The Anthropologist FrameworkModel rating
Buy
5-Year Return Est.
+328.0%
RXRX.NASDAQ does not currently pay dividends
1. Investment Thesis — Base Case
The Base Case projects a volatile but ultimately compounding recovery as Recursion transitions from a misunderstood cash-burner to a recognized data utility. In the near term (2026-2027), the stock struggles against macro headwindsmacro headwindsBroad economic conditions that can slow growth, weaken demand, or pressure asset valuations.View full glossary entry, high capital costs, and FDA bottlenecks. However, the data salvage value provides a hard floor against total collapse.
- By late 2027, the market begins to separate the value of the proprietary data lake from the clinical pipeline.
- Big Pharma, desperate to replenish entropic pipelines, expands partnerships, providing non-dilutive capitalnon dilutive capitalFunding that does not require issuing new common equity and therefore does not directly reduce existing ownership percentages.View full glossary entry.
- Generative chemistry models cross the efficiency threshold, accelerating hit-to-lead times.
- Sometime in 2028-2029, a Phase 2 clinical success validates the platform, leading to a massive re-rating.
- The stock compounds aggressively in the out-years as TechBio becomes a sovereign civilizational imperative, overriding short-term rate environments.
Historical prices and published forecast
- Observed price
- Published advisor forecast
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| Series | Date | Value (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Observed price | 2021-04-28 | 31.4 |
| Observed price | 2021-05-02 | 33.1 |
| Observed price | 2021-05-14 | 21.2 |
| Observed price | 2021-05-26 | 24.6 |
| Observed price | 2021-06-19 | 36.8 |
| Observed price | 2021-07-13 | 41.3 |
| Observed price | 2021-07-17 | 33.2 |
| Observed price | 2021-07-21 | 36.0 |
| Observed price | 2021-08-14 | 21.8 |
| Observed price | 2021-08-18 | 19.03 |
| Observed price | 2021-09-07 | 28.2 |
| Observed price | 2021-09-19 | 26.3 |
| Observed price | 2021-10-09 | 18.58 |
| Observed price | 2021-10-25 | 18.26 |
| Observed price | 2021-11-02 | 20.7 |
| Observed price | 2021-11-10 | 16.14 |
| Observed price | 2021-11-18 | 19.23 |
| Observed price | 2021-12-08 | 19.81 |
| Observed price | 2021-12-24 | 16.77 |
| Observed price | 2022-01-05 | 16.35 |
| Observed price | 2022-01-29 | 11.10 |
| Observed price | 2022-02-10 | 11.79 |
| Observed price | 2022-02-22 | 10.16 |
| Observed price | 2022-03-02 | 10.74 |
| Observed price | 2022-03-14 | 6.16 |
| Observed price | 2022-04-03 | 7.76 |
| Observed price | 2022-04-23 | 6.25 |
| Observed price | 2022-05-01 | 6.47 |
| Observed price | 2022-05-21 | 5.54 |
| Observed price | 2022-05-25 | 5.49 |
| Observed price | 2022-06-18 | 7.81 |
| Observed price | 2022-07-08 | 8.96 |
| Observed price | 2022-07-12 | 8.00 |
| Observed price | 2022-07-24 | 7.84 |
| Observed price | 2022-08-13 | 12.35 |
| Observed price | 2022-08-21 | 9.70 |
| Observed price | 2022-09-10 | 13.38 |
| Observed price | 2022-09-14 | 13.47 |
| Observed price | 2022-09-26 | 9.97 |
| Observed price | 2022-10-28 | 11.09 |
| Observed price | 2022-11-05 | 9.56 |
| Observed price | 2022-11-13 | 12.63 |
| Observed price | 2022-11-29 | 8.85 |
| Observed price | 2022-12-07 | 9.33 |
| Observed price | 2022-12-27 | 7.16 |
| Observed price | 2023-01-08 | 7.49 |
| Observed price | 2023-01-16 | 9.06 |
| Observed price | 2023-02-05 | 9.28 |
| Observed price | 2023-02-25 | 7.65 |
| Observed price | 2023-03-05 | 8.30 |
| Observed price | 2023-03-25 | 6.70 |
| Observed price | 2023-04-02 | 6.82 |
| Observed price | 2023-04-22 | 5.61 |
| Observed price | 2023-04-30 | 4.78 |
| Observed price | 2023-05-20 | 6.99 |
| Observed price | 2023-06-05 | 8.43 |
| Observed price | 2023-06-13 | 9.94 |
| Observed price | 2023-07-11 | 6.78 |
| Observed price | 2023-07-15 | 12.40 |
| Observed price | 2023-07-19 | 15.86 |
| Observed price | 2023-08-12 | 9.49 |
| Observed price | 2023-09-01 | 9.12 |
| Observed price | 2023-09-09 | 8.15 |
| Observed price | 2023-09-17 | 8.68 |
| Observed price | 2023-10-07 | 6.94 |
| Observed price | 2023-10-11 | 6.82 |
| Observed price | 2023-10-31 | 5.28 |
| Observed price | 2023-11-08 | 5.63 |
| Observed price | 2023-12-02 | 7.40 |
| Observed price | 2023-12-06 | 7.42 |
| Observed price | 2023-12-26 | 10.79 |
| Observed price | 2024-01-07 | 12.38 |
| Observed price | 2024-01-19 | 9.63 |
| Observed price | 2024-02-04 | 9.18 |
| Observed price | 2024-02-24 | 13.83 |
| Observed price | 2024-02-28 | 12.94 |
| Observed price | 2024-03-11 | 10.37 |
| Observed price | 2024-03-27 | 10.17 |
| Observed price | 2024-04-20 | 7.43 |
| Observed price | 2024-04-24 | 7.94 |
| Observed price | 2024-05-14 | 10.05 |
| Observed price | 2024-05-22 | 9.36 |
| Observed price | 2024-06-07 | 8.51 |
| Observed price | 2024-06-19 | 9.43 |
| Observed price | 2024-07-05 | 7.32 |
| Observed price | 2024-07-17 | 8.35 |
| Observed price | 2024-08-10 | 6.20 |
| Observed price | 2024-08-26 | 7.89 |
| Observed price | 2024-09-07 | 5.99 |
| Observed price | 2024-09-27 | 6.98 |
| Observed price | 2024-10-05 | 6.13 |
| Observed price | 2024-10-09 | 6.15 |
| Observed price | 2024-10-21 | 6.76 |
| Observed price | 2024-11-10 | 7.59 |
| Observed price | 2024-11-22 | 5.70 |
| Observed price | 2024-12-08 | 8.18 |
| Observed price | 2024-12-20 | 6.03 |
| Observed price | 2025-01-05 | 7.90 |
| Observed price | 2025-01-17 | 6.53 |
| Observed price | 2025-01-29 | 7.16 |
| Observed price | 2025-02-18 | 10.64 |
| Observed price | 2025-02-26 | 8.34 |
| Observed price | 2025-03-10 | 6.13 |
| Observed price | 2025-03-26 | 6.17 |
| Observed price | 2025-04-07 | 4.20 |
| Observed price | 2025-04-27 | 5.80 |
| Observed price | 2025-05-09 | 4.33 |
| Observed price | 2025-05-21 | 4.09 |
| Observed price | 2025-06-06 | 5.49 |
| Observed price | 2025-06-22 | 4.90 |
| Observed price | 2025-06-26 | 5.40 |
| Observed price | 2025-07-28 | 6.31 |
| Observed price | 2025-08-09 | 5.34 |
| Observed price | 2025-08-13 | 5.70 |
| Observed price | 2025-09-06 | 4.61 |
| Observed price | 2025-09-10 | 4.54 |
| Observed price | 2025-10-04 | 5.50 |
| Observed price | 2025-10-12 | 5.46 |
| Observed price | 2025-10-20 | 6.68 |
| Observed price | 2025-11-05 | 4.96 |
| Observed price | 2025-11-17 | 4.12 |
| Observed price | 2025-12-07 | 4.78 |
| Observed price | 2025-12-15 | 4.20 |
| Observed price | 2025-12-31 | 4.09 |
| Observed price | 2026-01-12 | 4.81 |
| Observed price | 2026-01-28 | 4.47 |
| Observed price | 2026-02-21 | 3.42 |
| Observed price | 2026-02-25 | 3.77 |
| Observed price | 2026-03-21 | 3.24 |
| Observed price | 2026-03-29 | 2.87 |
| Observed price | 2026-04-18 | 3.75 |
| Observed price | 2026-04-22 | 3.73 |
| Observed price | 2026-05-16 | 2.92 |
| Observed price | 2026-05-20 | 2.96 |
| Observed price | 2026-06-01 | 3.79 |
| Observed price | 2026-06-17 | 3.11 |
| Observed price | 2026-07-07 | 3.84 |
| Observed price | 2026-07-19 | 2.91 |
| Observed price | 2026-08-04 | 3.31 |
| Observed price | 2026-08-16 | 3.13 |
| Observed price | 2026-09-05 | 3.58 |
| Observed price | 2026-09-09 | 3.21 |
| Observed price | 2026-09-22 | 4.05 |
| Observed price | 2026-09-25 | 3.74 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2026-05-01 | 3.39 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2026-08-01 | 3.12 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2026-11-01 | 2.96 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2027-02-01 | 3.41 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2027-05-01 | 3.75 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2027-08-01 | 3.56 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2027-11-01 | 4.27 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2028-02-01 | 4.79 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2028-05-01 | 5.98 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2028-08-01 | 6.58 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2028-11-01 | 6.05 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2029-02-01 | 7.14 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2029-05-01 | 8.21 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2029-08-01 | 8.87 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2029-11-01 | 7.98 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2030-02-01 | 8.94 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2030-05-01 | 11.18 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2030-08-01 | 12.30 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2030-11-01 | 13.28 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2031-02-01 | 12.62 |
| Published advisor forecast | 2031-05-01 | 14.51 |
2. Scenarios & Signals
Bull case
The Bull Case materializes if hyperscaler subsidy accelerates and a partnered asset clears Phase 2 flawlessly early in the horizon.
- The energy shockenergy shockA sudden disruption or price change in energy markets that affects inflation, demand, and operating costs.View full glossary entry forces faster AI automation in all sectors, including Pharma.
- NVIDIA or Alphabet makes a massive equity injection or buyout offer to secure the proprietary data moatdata moatA durable competitive advantage created by proprietary, difficult-to-replicate, or continuously improving data.View full glossary entry.
- The pipeline generates a first-in-class blockbuster, proving the thermodynamic superiority of in-silico discovery.
- The equity re-rates to a software-as-a-service multiple rather than a biotech lottery multiple.
Bear case
The Bear Case unfolds if Warsh's liquidity drainliquidity drainA reduction in money or financing available to markets, which can tighten credit and pressure valuations.View full glossary entry starves long-duration assets and the clinical pipeline proves the AI models are overfit.
- Cash runs out by 2027, forcing a toxic convertible debtconvertible debtDebt instruments convertible into equity, impacting balance sheet risk and potential shareholder dilution.View full glossary entry issuance.
- In-silico generated molecules consistently fail in meat-space Phase 2 trials, proving the translation layer is broken.
- energy shockA sudden disruption or price change in energy markets that affects inflation, demand, and operating costs. make running massive GPU clusters for phenotypic screening economically unviable.
- The company is liquidated for parts, yielding pennies on the dollar for equity holders.
Current crowd narrative
The noisy, impatient human crowd views RXRX as a busted 2021 SPAC-era bubble stock. Seduced by the $36 peak, retail investors capitulated as cash burncash burnThe rate at which a company consumes its cash reserves to fund operations before achieving profitability.View full glossary entry outpaced clinical success. The prevailing narrative treats Recursion purely as a traditional clinical-stage biotech struggling in a high-rate, anti-duration macro regimemacro regimeA persistent combination of growth, inflation, policy, and liquidity conditions affecting asset prices.View full glossary entry, entirely anchoring to its lack of immediate commercialized therapeutics and dismissing its AI moniker as outdated hype.
Alpha-gap assessment
The variant perceptionvariant perceptionAn investment view that differs from market consensus and assumes future outcomes will be better or worse than widely expected.View full glossary entry lies in the total miscategorization of the asset. The market prices RXRX based on its clinical trial success rate, completely ignoring its Thermodynamic Efficiencythermodynamic efficiencyThe ratio of useful output to total energy input in a physical process or system.View full glossary entry and Information Theory topology. Recursion is not a drug company; it is a biological data refinery. Even if every drug in their current pipeline fails, their proprietary, multi-petabyte cellular image and multi-omics dataset is an irreplicable civilizational asset for any entity building biological foundation models. The market prices the data at zero; the physical reality dictates it is worth billions to the right hyperscaler.
Convergence catalyst
Convergence will be forced either by a major multi-hundred-million-dollar data licensing agreement with a top-tier tech giant seeking sovereign bio-compute superiority, or by a hostile takeover bid. This will force the market to re-value RXRX on a sum-of-the-partssum of the partsA valuation approach that separately values business segments or assets and then combines them, adjusting for debt, cash, and shared costs.View full glossary entry basis, separating the data moatA durable competitive advantage created by proprietary, difficult-to-replicate, or continuously improving data. from the clinical pipeline.
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