Erasca, Inc. ERAS

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
61/100
Moderate

About Erasca, Inc.

Erasca, Inc., a clinical-stage precision oncology company, focuses on discovering, developing, and commercializing therapies for patients with RAS/MAPK pathway-driven cancers. The company's lead product is naporafenib which is in SEACRAFT-2 pivotal Phase 3 trial for patients with NRAS-mutated (NRASm) melanoma; and in SEACRAFT-1 Phase 1b trial for patients with NRAS Q61X melanoma. It also develops ERAS-0015, a pan-RAS molecular glue … Full ERAS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.89), with robust interest coverage.
  • Strong Liquidity Buffer Liquidity position is strong (score 0.79), providing operational cushion.

Key risks

  • Weak or Negative Cash Flow Cash generation is weak (score 0.00), limiting financial flexibility.

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 ERAS ranks in Biotechnology

Erasca, Inc. ranks #90 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 13%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near ERAS in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
86 Century Therapeutics, Inc. IPSC 61/100 Moderate
87 LakeShore Biopharma Co., Ltd LSB 61/100 Moderate
88 Sangamo Therapeutics, Inc. SGMO 61/100 Moderate
89 Xencor, Inc. XNCR 61/100 Moderate
90 Erasca, Inc. ERAS 61/100 Moderate
91 Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd. SLGL 61/100 Moderate
92 Ardelyx, Inc. ARDX 61/100 Moderate
93 Arvinas, Inc. ARVN 61/100 Moderate
94 Protara Therapeutics, Inc. TARA 61/100 Moderate

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How ERAS 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 46 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 85 · 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 ERAS's moat

What is Erasca, Inc.'s moat score?

Erasca, Inc. (ERAS) scores 61 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #90 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 13%. 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 (85/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (46/100).

How does Erasca, Inc. compare with other Biotechnology companies?

Erasca, Inc. ranks #90 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 Xencor, Inc. (XNCR) at 61 just above it and Sol-Gel Technologies Ltd. (SLGL) at 61 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 Erasca, 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 Erasca, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and ERAS scores: Pricing Power (not measurable), Cost Advantage (not measurable), Customer Stickiness (not measurable), Capital Efficiency (46), Resilience (85), 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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