Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. CLRB

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
16/100
Weak

About Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc., a clinical biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the discovery, development, and commercialization of drugs for the treatment of cancer in the United States. The company's lead phospholipid drug conjugate (PDC) candidate is CLR 131 (iopofosine I-131), which is in Phase 2 clinical study for patients with B-cell malignancies; Phase 2a clinical study for patients with relapsed or refractory … Full CLRB analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 8.5th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Elevated Debt Risk Debt serviceability is weak (score 0.34), raising refinancing risk.

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Pricing Power

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Where CLRB ranks in Biotechnology

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. ranks #623 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 87%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near CLRB in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
619 Inhibrx Biosciences, Inc. INBX 17/100 Weak
620 CervoMed Inc. CRVO 17/100 Weak
621 Jupiter Neurosciences, Inc. JUNS 17/100 Weak
622 Soligenix, Inc. SNGX 17/100 Weak
623 Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. CLRB 16/100 Weak
624 Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ACXP 16/100 Weak
625 Cadrenal Therapeutics, Inc. CVKD 15/100 Weak
626 Greenwich LifeSciences, Inc. GLSI 15/100 Weak
627 GT Biopharma, Inc. GTBP 15/100 Weak

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How CLRB 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 5 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 34 · 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 CLRB's moat

What is Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.'s moat score?

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. (CLRB) scores 16 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as weak. It ranks #623 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 87%. 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 (34/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (5/100).

How does Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. compare with other Biotechnology companies?

Cellectar Biosciences, Inc. ranks #623 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 Soligenix, Inc. (SNGX) at 17 just above it and Acurx Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (ACXP) at 16 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 Cellectar Biosciences, 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 Cellectar Biosciences, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and CLRB scores: Pricing Power (not measurable), Cost Advantage (not measurable), Customer Stickiness (not measurable), Capital Efficiency (5), Resilience (34), 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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