Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ARMP

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
28/100
Developing

About Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. operates as a clinical-stage biotechnology company that focuses on the development of targeted bacteriophage therapeutics for antibiotic-resistant infections worldwide. It develops its products using its proprietary bacteriophage-based technology. The company's product candidates include AP-SA02 for the treatment of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia; AP-PA02 for Pseudomonas aeruginosa; and AP-PA03 for the treatment of pneumonia. It has research collaboration agreement … Full ARMP analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.73), with robust interest coverage.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 32.6th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Liquidity Concerns Liquidity is concerning (score 0.14), raising questions about short-term obligations.

The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.

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Pricing Power

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Where ARMP ranks in Biotechnology

Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ranks #537 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 75%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near ARMP in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
533 Altimmune, Inc. ALT 28/100 Developing
534 Telomir Pharmaceuticals, Inc. TELO 28/100 Developing
535 Viracta Therapeutics, Inc. VIRX 28/100 Developing
536 Mereo BioPharma Group plc MREO 28/100 Developing
537 Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ARMP 28/100 Developing
538 Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. CLDX 28/100 Developing
539 Cardio Diagnostics Holdings Inc CDIO 27/100 Developing
540 Cardio Diagnostics Holdings, Inc. CDIOW 27/100 Developing
541 iBio, Inc. IBIO 27/100 Developing

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How ARMP scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Not measurable · 20% of the moat score

Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.

Cost Advantage

Not measurable · 15% of the moat score

A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.

Customer Stickiness

Not measurable · 15% of the moat score

Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.

Capital Efficiency

Score 13 · 18% of the moat score

Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.

Resilience

Score 51 · 17% of the moat score

Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.

Scale & Market Position

Not measurable · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding ARMP's moat

What is Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.'s moat score?

Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ARMP) scores 28 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #537 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 75%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 712 companies in Biotechnology. Its strongest defense is Resilience (51/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (13/100).

How does Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. compare with other Biotechnology companies?

Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ranks #537 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score. The widest moat in Biotechnology is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100. The companies ranked closest are Mereo BioPharma Group plc (MREO) at 28 just above it and Celldex Therapeutics, Inc. (CLDX) at 28 just below it.

How is the moat score calculated?

Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 712 companies in Biotechnology. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.

Why is Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?

Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.

Which competitive defenses are measured for Armata Pharmaceuticals, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ARMP scores: Pricing Power (not measurable), Cost Advantage (not measurable), Customer Stickiness (not measurable), Capital Efficiency (13), Resilience (51), Scale & Market Position (not measurable). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.

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