XOMA Royalty Corporation operates as a biotech royalty aggregator in the United States and the Asia Pacific. It has a portfolio of economic rights to future potential milestone and royalty payments associated with partnered commercial and pre-commercial therapeutic candidates. The company also focuses on early to mid-stage clinical assets primarily in Phase 1 and 2 with commercial sales potential that …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Margins Consistently Above PeersGross margin at 276.7% (top 0%) and operating margin at 97.6% (top 1%) indicate strong pricing power.
ROIC Sustainably Above PeersROIC at 83.1th percentile exceeds peers and WACC, demonstrating superior capital allocation.
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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XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo ranks #37 of 713
scored companies in Biotechnology by moat score — the top 5%.
The widest moat in the group is Royalty Pharma plc (RPRX)
at 85/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near XOMAO in Biotechnology
How XOMAO scores on the Corporate Default defenses
Pricing Power
Score 85
· 20% of the moat score
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 71
· 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 72
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 72
· 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 80
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo's moat score?
XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo (XOMAO) scores 73 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as moderate. It ranks #37 of 713 scored companies in Biotechnology, the top 5%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 712 companies in Biotechnology. Its strongest defense is Pricing Power (85/100) and its weakest is Resilience (57/100).
How does XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo compare with other Biotechnology companies?
XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo ranks #37 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 XOMA Royalty Corporation (XOMA) at 73 just above it and XOMA Royalty Corporation - 8.62 (XOMAP) at 73 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 XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo 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 XOMA Royalty Corporation - Depo?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and XOMAO scores: Pricing Power (85), Cost Advantage (71), Customer Stickiness (72), Capital Efficiency (72), Resilience (57), Scale & Market Position (80). 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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