VIRVir Biotechnology, Inc.
Is the business good?
More warning than reassurance: 3 of 9 health tests passed and margins compressing.
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals. Nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year health from the filings.
Operating margin has narrowed over the past few years, profitability per dollar of sales is eroding.
Where this answer is blind. The F-score rewards improvement, so an already-elite company can score mid-pack.
How good a business is VIR?
Vir Biotechnology, Inc. earns −49% on the capital it employs against a 9.0% cost of capital, so growth costs more than it returns.
Return on invested capital · cost of capital 9.0% · 58 points below what the capital costs: growth destroys value
- Share count, year on year
- +22%
Share count, year on year · shareholders own a smaller slice than a year ago
| Year | Operating margin |
|---|---|
| FY2020 | −389% |
| FY2021 | 38% |
| FY2022 | 52% |
| FY2023 | −794% |
| FY2024 | −791% |
| FY2025 | −699% |
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- Free cash flow, trailing twelve months
- −$204M
- Net income, trailing twelve months
- −$252M
- Return on invested capitaloperating profit after tax ÷ debt + equity − cash
- −49%
Margins, capital and share counts from the statements as filed with the SEC; cash conversion is operating cash flow over operating profit after tax.