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Relay Therapeutics

RLAY
39
Biotechnology · Healthcare
Price
$19.44
-0.26 (-1.32%)
Market Cap
$4.26B
Exchange
NASDAQ
Winston Score
39
Winston is serious
Below-average fundamentals — multiple weak pillars.
Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026
How the score breaks down
Quality
Mixed
Growth
Good
Cash Flow
Weak
Stability
Good
Valuation
Data not available

Share count rising — dilution

+80.4% over 4y

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

Diluted shares outstanding: 95.1M (2021) → 171.6M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Relay Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that discovers and develops new medicines for cancer and other serious diseases. It focuses on making drugs that target proteins involved in tumor growth, with its lead programs aimed at certain breast and other solid tumor cancers. The company uses a computational drug discovery platform called Dynamo, which combines protein motion data with artificial intelligence to design drug candidates more precisely than traditional methods.

Relay makes money primarily through research collaborations and licensing deals with larger pharmaceutical companies, as well as through equity and debt financing — it does not yet sell any approved products. The company is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts and operates mainly in the United States, with a market cap around $3.3 billion despite generating no product revenue. Its key growth driver is advancing its lead drug candidates, particularly RLY-2608 for breast cancer, through clinical trials toward potential FDA approval, but the main risk is that clinical-stage biotechs frequently fail in trials and burn significant cash before reaching profitability.

Growth Profile

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Revenue Growth

-48.3% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue declining

EPS Growth

+0.0% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Slow EPS growth

R&D Spend

$261M/ year

Declining (-18% vs prior year)

>1,000% of revenue

94.6x the sector average (18%)

R&D spend declining — could signal cost-cutting or efficiency

Insider Activity

22.2%ownership

Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Runway

~3 months

$121M cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Short runway — potential dilution ahead through share issuance

Cash watch

Relay Therapeutics has less than a year of cash at its current burn rate. Growth investors should watch for potential share dilution from future fundraising — that directly reduces your ownership.

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
100.0%
Premium pricing power — 100.0% gross margin
Profit after running costs
Operating Margin
-25949.7%
Losing money on operations — -25949.7%
Return on the money invested
ROCE
-33.7%
Weak — -33.7% 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
+23.9%
Fast-growing sales (+23.9% YoY)
Profit growth
EPS YoY
N/A
Data not available
How steady the profit is
EPS Consistency
6/8 quarters
Earnings grew in most of the last 8 quarters

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash
Cash Conversion
N/A
Data not available
Spare cash per sale
FCF Margin
-2544.1%
Burning cash (-2544.1%)

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
0.03
Conservative — low debt load (0.03)
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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