Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SYRS

Competitive advantage analysis · healthcare

Corporate Default
Overall moat score
36/100
Developing

About Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, focuses on the development of treatment for hematologic malignancies. The company's lead product candidates are Tamibarotene, a selective retinoic acid receptor alpha agonist, which is in Phase III clinical trial for genomically defined subset of patients with myelodysplastic syndrome and Phase II clinical trial for patients with acute myeloid leukemia; SY-2101, a novel oral … Full SYRS analysis →

Competitive advantage assessment

Key risks

  • ROIC Below WACC or Peers ROIC at 12.5th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
  • Scale Without Profitability Despite scale, profitability lags peers (score 0.39), suggesting limited competitive advantage.

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
36

Where SYRS ranks in Biotechnology

Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ranks #425 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 60%. The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX) at 85/100.

Moat scores for companies ranked near SYRS in Biotechnology
# Company Moat score Rating
421 Aardvark Therapeutics, Inc. AARD 36/100 Developing
422 Zura Bio Limited ZURA 36/100 Developing
423 Alto Neuroscience, Inc. ANRO 36/100 Developing
424 ProKidney Corp. PROK 36/100 Developing
425 Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. SYRS 36/100 Developing
426 Arcellx, Inc. ACLX 36/100 Developing
427 Citius Pharmaceuticals, Inc. CTXR 36/100 Developing
428 vTv Therapeutics Inc. VTVT 36/100 Developing
429 Windtree Therapeutics, Inc. WINT 36/100 Developing

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How SYRS scores on the Corporate Default defenses

Pricing Power

Score 36 · 20% of the moat score

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

Cost Advantage

Score 42 · 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 38 · 15% of the moat score

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

Capital Efficiency

Score 7 · 18% of the moat score

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

Resilience

Score 48 · 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 33 · 15% of the moat score

Scale matters only when it converts into economics.

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Understanding SYRS's moat

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

Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (SYRS) scores 36 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #425 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 60%. 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 (48/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (7/100).

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

Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc. ranks #425 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 ProKidney Corp. (PROK) at 36 just above it and Arcellx, Inc. (ACLX) at 36 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 Syros 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 Syros Pharmaceuticals, Inc.?

The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and SYRS scores: Pricing Power (36), Cost Advantage (42), Customer Stickiness (38), Capital Efficiency (7), Resilience (48), Scale & Market Position (33). 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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