MacroGenics, Inc. MGNX

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
60/100
Moderate

About MacroGenics, Inc.

MacroGenics, Inc., a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company, discovers, develops, manufactures, and commercializes antibody-based therapeutics to treat cancer in the United States. The company's product pipeline includes lorigerlimab, a bispecific DART molecule that targets checkpoint inhibitors PD-1 and CTLA-4 for the treatment of mCRPC and docetaxel that is in phase 2 clinical trials, as well as for the treatment of platinum-resistant ovarian … Full MGNX analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key strengths

  • Cost Leadership Position Operating margin at 77.1th percentile with strong OpEx control demonstrates cost leadership.
  • Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative Leverage Debt serviceability is strong (score 0.86), with robust interest coverage.

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 24.1th 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

Developing
49

Where MGNX ranks in Biotechnology

MacroGenics, Inc. ranks #112 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 16%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near MGNX in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
108 Mesoblast Limited MESO 60/100 Moderate
109 Travere Therapeutics, Inc. TVTX 60/100 Moderate
110 AEON Biopharma, Inc. AEON 60/100 Moderate
111 Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. SRPT 60/100 Moderate
112 MacroGenics, Inc. MGNX 60/100 Moderate
113 ArriVent BioPharma, Inc. AVBP 60/100 Moderate
114 Septerna, Inc. SEPN 60/100 Moderate
115 Tarsus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. TARS 60/100 Moderate
116 Phio Pharmaceuticals Corp. PHIO 60/100 Moderate

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How MGNX scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 49 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 85 · 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 68 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 32 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 75 · 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 58 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding MGNX's moat

What is MacroGenics, Inc.'s moat score?

MacroGenics, Inc. (MGNX) scores 60 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #112 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 16%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 712 companies in Biotechnology. Its strongest defense is Cost Advantage (85/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (32/100).

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

MacroGenics, Inc. ranks #112 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 Sarepta Therapeutics, Inc. (SRPT) at 60 just above it and ArriVent BioPharma, Inc. (AVBP) at 60 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 MacroGenics, 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 MacroGenics, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and MGNX scores: Pricing Power (49), Cost Advantage (85), Customer Stickiness (68), Capital Efficiency (32), Resilience (75), Scale & Market Position (58). 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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