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Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals

ARWR
21
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Also trades as: 0HI3.L
Price
$87.11
-0.36 (-0.41%)
Market Cap
$12.27B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
21
Winston is worried
Weak fundamentals across most pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Weak
Growth
Mixed
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Weak
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+28.9% over 4y

The company has issued more shares over this period, which dilutes each existing shareholder’s stake.

Diluted shares outstanding: 103.7M (2021) → 133.8M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is a biotechnology company that develops medicines designed to silence specific genes inside the body. It uses a technology called RNA interference (RNAi) to essentially "turn off" genes that cause diseases like liver conditions, heart disease, and lung disorders. The company focuses on building a pipeline of these targeted therapies and has partnered with larger pharmaceutical companies to help develop and commercialize them.

Arrowhead earns money through a mix of licensing deals, collaboration agreements, and milestone payments from partners like Janssen, GSK, and Amgen — rather than selling drugs directly to patients at scale yet. It operates primarily in the United States and is a mid-sized biotech with a market cap around $12 billion. Its proprietary TRiM platform for delivering RNAi drugs is a key competitive advantage, but the company is not yet consistently profitable, and its financial performance depends heavily on clinical trial outcomes and whether partnered drugs successfully reach the market.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

+171.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong revenue growth

EPS Growth

-7.9% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Earnings declining

R&D Spend

$607M/ year

Rising (+24% vs prior year)

73.2% of revenue

4.1x the sector average (18%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

12.8%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~2 years

$1.6B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

$1.6B cash & investments at current burn rate

Strong grower

Arrowhead Pharmaceuticals is growing revenue at 171% year-over-year. The Winston Score penalises unprofitable companies, but revenue at this pace tells a different story — this is a company still in "build mode."

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale
Gross Margin
0.0%
Thin — 0.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-226.0%
Losing money on operations — -226.0%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-17.9%
Weak — -17.9% return on capital

Negative ROIC means the business is losing money on every dollar invested in it.

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Growth

Sales growth
Sales YoY
+16.8%
Fast-growing sales (+16.8% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
4/8 quarters
Earnings inconsistent quarter-to-quarter

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-11.2%
Burning cash (-11.2%)

Free cash flow is negative. They are burning cash, not generating it.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns
Debt / Equity
1.72
Elevated debt (1.72)
Covers its interest
Interest Cover
N/A
Data not available

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Valuation

Price vs profit
P/E Ratio (TTM)
N/M
Negative earnings — P/E not meaningful
Cheaper or dearer next year
P/E vs Forward
N/A
not available
Data not available

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Dividends

Not applicable for this business.
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