$5 billion market opportunity

To follow up on the market opportunity - $5 Billion - as an analyst at Canaccord Genuity put it, Sunshine Heart is trading at unprecedented levels. Let me illustrate. If in 5 years, Sunshine Heart stands to realize anything remotely close to this figure - $5 Billion - today's valuation implies the discount would have to be >99%. Looked at another way, if you were to discount $5B over 5 years at 99%, you would still end up with a present value of more than $160 million. What's shocking about this is that Sunshine Heart has traded, of late, at around a $60-something-million dollar valuation. This suggests an absolutely unprecedented opportunity in a grossly undervalued medical device company - Sunshine Heart. And yet, these estimates could prove conservative and imply an even larger opportunity for the company. Notwithstanding, investors seem to be missing that the key value drivers over the next 12 months will be a precursor to a very significant appreciation in value should Sunshine Heart continue to deliver staggering results with its C-Pulse device. As we eagerly await those results, investors will find key value drivers in the company's 12-month follow up data from the feasibility trial, publication in distinguished medical journals, product launch and traction in the European Union, patient and physician testimonies on C-Pulse, and an increasing incidence of adverse reactions to LVADs/HVADs - which will further validate the need for both a safe and efficacious alternative in heart failure therapy.