Dare Bioscience, Inc. DARE

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
25/100
Developing

About Dare Bioscience, Inc.

Daré Bioscience, Inc. develops therapies in the areas of contraception, pelvic pain, fertility, infectious disease, menopause, and sexual and vaginal health in the United States. The company offers XACIATO, a lincosamide antibacterial gel for the treatment of bacterial vaginosis. It also develops Ovaprene, a hormone-free monthly intravaginal contraceptive; Sildenafil Cream, a cream formulation of sildenafil for topical administration to the … Full DARE analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.90), with robust interest coverage.

Key risks

  • Commodity Pressure / Weak Differentiation Gross margin at 32.2th percentile with high volatility suggests weak pricing power or commoditized products.
  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 4.3th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.

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

Weak
13

Where DARE ranks in Biotechnology

Dare Bioscience, Inc. ranks #562 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 79%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near DARE in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
558 BioRestorative Therapies, Inc. BRTX 26/100 Developing
559 VistaGen Therapeutics, Inc. VTGN 26/100 Developing
560 Artiva Biotherapeutics, Inc. ARTV 26/100 Developing
561 Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. AVTX 26/100 Developing
562 Dare Bioscience, Inc. DARE 25/100 Developing
563 BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. BTAI 25/100 Developing
564 Elicio Therapeutics, Inc. ELTX 25/100 Developing
565 Neumora Therapeutics, Inc. NMRA 25/100 Developing
566 Gain Therapeutics, Inc. GANX 25/100 Developing

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How DARE scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 13 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 33 · 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

Score 25 · 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 57 · 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

Score 23 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding DARE's moat

What is Dare Bioscience, Inc.'s moat score?

Dare Bioscience, Inc. (DARE) scores 25 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #562 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 79%. 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 (57/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (5/100).

How does Dare Bioscience, Inc. compare with other Biotechnology companies?

Dare Bioscience, Inc. ranks #562 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 Avalo Therapeutics, Inc. (AVTX) at 26 just above it and BioXcel Therapeutics, Inc. (BTAI) at 25 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 Dare Bioscience, 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 Dare Bioscience, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and DARE scores: Pricing Power (13), Cost Advantage (33), Customer Stickiness (25), Capital Efficiency (5), Resilience (57), Scale & Market Position (23). 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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