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INBX, Inhibrx Biosciences Inc.

Biotechnology consumer brand UnprofitableDistress / turnaround

We are a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company with a pipeline of novel biologic therapeutic candidates, developed using our proprietary modular protein engineering platforms.

We are a biopharmaceutical company aiming to develop a differentiated and sustainable product portfolio by focusing on the following: Rapidly advance and optimize the clinical development of our lead programs.

Apply our protein engineering platforms to create differentiated, next-generation therapeutics in focused disease areas with a high unmet medical need.

Latest annual: FY2025 10-K
INBX · Inhibrx Biosciences Inc.
I

The business

What it sells, where the money comes from, the kind of company it is.

Revenue · FY2025
$1M
+550.0% YoY
Vital signs · TTM
Cash & investments $162M
Cash burn · annual $132M
Runway 1.2 yrs

The business in brief

read the 10-K →

What this business is and what moves its needle, from its own SEC filings.

Situation
Unprofitable. No meaningful revenue yet; the record is the cash on hand against the burn. Distress / turnaround. Thin interest coverage, or operating cash burned against real debt, across the record. The balance sheet carries this situation; the debt schedule sets the clock.
What moves the needle
Operating margin has run around −12179% through the cycle, the operating line deeply negative — so the lever is the path to a margin at all: revenue growth against the cost curve and the cash runway, not the level of a margin that isn't there yet. Stock-based pay runs about 1380% of sales, a real and recurring claim on owners that the GAAP margin understates. Read this kind of business on the pipeline against the patent cliff, and pricing. On its own account, the filing leans hardest on pricing power & competition, set against the numbers in what the filing emphasizes, below.

Every line is arithmetic on the company's filings, shown in full in the sections below.

II

The record

Ten years of arithmetic, read across the cycle.

The record, 2023–2025

realized figures from each filing · older years to the left
2023’232024’242025’25TTMTTMDec 2025
Income statement
$2M$200K$1M$1MRevenueRevenue
n/mn/mn/mn/mSG&A / revenueSG&A/rev
n/mn/mn/mn/mR&D / revenueR&D/rev
($219M)($331M)($135M)($123M)Operating incomeOp. inc.
n/mn/mn/mn/mOperating marginOp. mgn
($241M)$1.7B($140M)($130M)Net incomeNet inc.
Cash flow & returns
($193M)($194M)($130M)($132M)Operating cash flowOp. cash
$1M$2M$2M$2MDepreciationDeprec.
$22M($1.9B)($3M)($15M)Working capital & otherWC & other
$5M$3M$31K$10KCapexCapex
255.2%n/m2.4%0.8%Capex / revenueCapex/rev
($195M)($197M)($130M)($132M)Owner earningsOwner earn.
n/mn/mn/mn/mOwner earnings marginOE mgn
($198M)($197M)($130M)($132M)Free cash flowFCF
n/mn/mn/mn/mFree cash flow marginFCF mgn
-555%1263%-1752%Return on equityROE
−555%n/mn/mRetained to equityRetained/eq
Balance sheet
$278M$153M$124M$162MCash & investmentsCash+inv
$11M$9M$6M$9MAccounts payablePayables
$295M$160M$133M$171MCurrent assetsCur. assets
$56M$41M$34M$27MCurrent liabilitiesCur. liab.
5.2×3.9×3.9×6.5×Current ratioCurr. ratio
$308M$181M$146M$184MTotal assetsAssets
$207M$0$101M$175MTotal debtDebt
($71M)($153M)($24M)$13MNet debt / (cash)Net debt
-6.9×-24.6×-11.1×-9.5×Interest coverageInt. cov.
$44M$134M$8M($21M)Shareholders’ equityEquity
n/mn/m856.8%872.4%Stock comp / revenueSBC/rev
Per share
11.8M15.0M15.5M15.6MShares out (diluted)Shares
$0.15$0.01$0.08$0.08Revenue / shareRev/sh
$-20.48$112.62$-9.04$-8.35EPS (diluted)EPS
$-16.51$-13.15$-8.38$-8.47Owner earnings / shareOE/sh
$-16.80$-13.15$-8.38$-8.47Free cash flow / shareFCF/sh
$0.39$0.17$0.00$0.00Cap. spending / shareCapex/sh
$3.69$8.92$0.52$-1.35Book value / shareBVPS

The record, charted

FY2023–2025

Each measure over its full record; the current point and the worst year marked.

Share count
15Mpeak FY2025

Owner earnings vs. net income

Owner earningsNet income

The accountant's number, and the cash an owner can take; the gap is the tell.

($130M)owner earningsvs.($140M)net incomelow FY2024

Net income is the accountant's number; owner earnings is the cash an owner could take out. The walk between them, off the cash-flow statement, and whether the gap is widening or holding.

In fiscal 2025 the business turned a $140M loss into ($130M) of owner earnings: more cash than the profit line showed, after the non-cash charges and the capital it put back in.

FY2025FY2024FY2023
Reported net income($140M)$1.7B($241M)
Depreciation & amortizationnon-cash charge added back+$2M+$2M+$1M
Stock-based compensationreal costnon-cash, but a real cost+$11M+$59M+$25M
Working capital & othertiming of cash in and out, other non-cash items−$3M−$1.9B+$22M
Cash from operations($130M)($194M)($193M)
Maintenance capital expenditurethe spending needed just to hold position and volume−$31K−$3M−$1M
Owner earnings($130M)($197M)($195M)
Growth capital expenditurediscretionary; spent to get bigger, not to stand still−$3M
Free cash flow($130M)($197M)($198M)
Owner-earnings marginowner earnings ÷ revenue-9987%-98503%-10806%

Owner earnings is the cash an owner could pull out without starving the business: operating cash less the capital it must spend to hold its position . The cash-flow statement also adds stock comp back as non-cash, but it is a real cost paid in shares; counted as the expense it is (less $11M), owner earnings is nearer ($141M).

Maintenance capex is estimated as depreciation where a growing business invests above it; free cash flow is the figure the scorecard's free-cash margin reads.

III

Quality & stewardship

Returns, the balance sheet, capital allocation, and pay.

Owner’s Scorecard

FY2025 10-K · source on SEC EDGAR →

Will it survive?

  • Does not cover its interest
    Operating income ($135M) ÷ interest expense $12M
    What this means

    A full year of operating profit didn't cover the interest bill. This is the zombie zone: the business depends on refinancing, asset sales, or forbearance to service its debt.

  • Net cash
    Cash $124M − debt $101M
    What this means

    Cash and short-term investments exceed every dollar of debt by $24M, on net the company owes nothing, and can act from strength when others can't. Net debt is the leverage figure that matters: the cash is already set against the debt. Strategic or illiquid investments aren't counted here.

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

Is it a good business?

  • Not meaningful here
    Invested capital ($16M) = debt $101M + equity $8M − cash
    Industry peers: median -42%
    What this means

    Invested capital is near zero or negative, usually years of buybacks pulling equity down. ROIC explodes or flips sign and stops meaning anything. Judge this one on Owner Earnings instead.

  • Consumes cash through the cycle
    3-yr median margin, range -98503%–-9987%; latest ($130M) = operating cash ($130M) − maintenance capex $31K
    Industry peers: median -1177%
    What this means

    What an owner could take out without starving the business: operating cash less the maintenance capital it must spend to hold its position — Buffett's owner earnings. That's -9987% of revenue this year, a -10806% median across 3 years. Treating stock comp as the real expense it is (less $11M of SBC) leaves ($141M).

  • Loss, and burning cash
    Net income ($140M) · cash from operations ($130M)
    What this means

    The company reported a net loss, so a conversion ratio isn't meaningful. What matters then is whether operations still threw off cash, here, they did not.

How is the cash used?

  • Not enough data
    What this means

    The filing data didn't include the inputs for this check.

  • Investing or harvesting? 0.01×
    Harvesting
    Capex $31K ÷ depreciation $2M
    What this means

    Descriptive, not a grade. Above ~1× means investing faster than assets wear out (growth, or, sustained for years, today's earnings carrying less depreciation than tomorrow's will). Below means spending less than it's wearing out (efficiency, or a melting asset base). The ratio won't tell you which; the filings will.

Graham’s defensive tests · 1 of 3 met

Graham’s numerical criteria for the defensive investor (The Intelligent Investor, ch. 14), run on the filings. A floor of safety, not a buy signal; many fine modern businesses fail his strictest liquidity rules by design.

  • Adequate size Miss
    Revenue ≥ $2B · $1M
    What this means

    Big enough to weather a storm. Graham's 1972 floor was ~$100M of sales (≈ $700M today); we use a $2B revenue line as a conservative modern stand-in.

  • Strong liquidity Pass
    Current ratio ≥ 2× · 3.93×
    What this means

    Current assets at least twice current liabilities, near-term bills covered without touching the business. Strict by design: many cash-rich modern firms run leaner and miss it, holding their cushion in longer-dated securities.

  • Conservative debt Near
    Debt ≤ working capital · $101M vs $99M WC
    What this means

    Graham's rule that borrowings not exceed net current assets. Capital-heavy and buyback-heavy firms routinely fail it, read it next to interest coverage, not alone.

  • Moderate price
    P/E ≤ 15 and P/E × P/B ≤ 22.5 · decided by the price
    What this means

    Graham's valuation gate, the wall he kept between a sound business and a sound investment. Three-year average earnings are $29.68/share (latest year $-9.55), the averaged base the calculator's gate runs on, and book value is $0.54/share. Enter a price in “What the price implies” just below for the P/E, P/B, and whether it clears. But this is the rule Buffett outgrew: there's no hard P/E law, and a wonderful business can deserve a far richer multiple if the thesis holds, treat it as the bargain-hunter's floor, not a verdict on the price.

Does AI threaten the moat?

Low contestability

The moat is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded, the kind AI cuts costs within but does not contest.

In its own filing Raised, but not as a competitor

The filing raises AI among its risks, but in other terms (security, regulation, energy or the like), not as a competitor to its product.

AI is unlikely to contest a moat that is physical, regulated or balance-sheet-funded; here it reads more as a cost tool than a threat.

Read from the filing's own risk factors, paired with the industry's structure under its SIC code; the durability is read above, the price below.

All figures as filed; the source filing is linked above.

Current Position

as of the latest quarter, Mar 31, 2026

Can the business pay what it owes this year, off the freshest balance sheet: the quality of the assets, the debt actually coming due, and what a low ratio means here.

Current assets$171M
  • Cash & short-term investments$162M
  • Other current assets$10M
Current liabilities$27M
  • Accounts payable$9M
  • Other current liabilities$18M
Current ratio6.46×all current assets ÷ what's due · Graham looked for 2×
Quick ratioinventory untagged this quarter, so withheld rather than shown equal to the current ratio
Cash ratio6.10×strictest: cash alone against what's due
Working capital$145Mthe cushion left after near-term bills
Cash runway1.2 yrsthe business is consuming cash; this is how long the cash on hand lasts at that rate
Current ratio, recent quarters6.2× → 6.5×
Deeper floors
Tangible book value($21M)equity stripped of goodwill & intangibles
Net current asset value($34M)Graham's net-net: current assets less all liabilities
Debt incl. operating leases$181M$6M of it operating leases

From the company's latest filing.

Management, ownership & pay

read the proxy →

From the proxy: how much of the business the people running it own, and how they are paid.

  • Insider ownership18.3%

    The stake all directors and executive officers hold together, per the 2026 proxy: skin in the game, the first thing Munger reads.

  • Stock-based compensation$11M

    The slice of the business handed to employees in shares this year, 857% of revenue. Buffett's oldest accounting fight: this is compensation, compensation is an expense, real whether or not the headline earnings admit it. One trap: the cash-flow statement adds SBC back, so the operating cash, and the owner earnings drawn from it, are flattered by exactly this amount; counted as the cost it is, what an owner keeps is lower.

Peers, Biotechnology

The same industry, side by side on owner economics. Each figure is a through-cycle median, so a peak or trough year can’t distort it; the group median at the foot is the line to read each against.

CompanyRevenueGross marginOp. marginROICOwner earn. margin
OCGNOcugen Inc.$4M-1425.7%-1295%
CGONCG Oncology Inc.$4M-10067.3%-21%-3279%
CRSPCRISPR Therapeutics AG$4M-1284.9%-27%-715%
DNTHDianthus Therapeutics Inc.$2M-1704.7%-54%-1308%
ORMPOramed Pharmaceuticals Inc.$2M1%-754.4%-29%-479%
SGMTSagimet Biosciences Inc. Series A$2M-2844.5%-59%
INBXInhibrx Biosciences Inc.$1M-12178.9%-10806%
STTKShattuck Labs Inc.$1M-1408.3%-104%-1059%
Group median-1565.2%-1295%
IV

The price

What a price has to assume.

What the price implies

reverse-DCF

Inhibrx Biosciences Inc. is profitable, but owner earnings are negative this year because capital spending currently outruns operating cash, a build-out, so the owner-earnings reverse-DCF has no positive base to grow. We read the price from both ends instead: type a price to see the steady-state profitability it demands, then set the mature margin you would believe and weigh the two against each other. Nothing leaves your browser unless you enter it in your notebook.

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The assumptions

Enter a price to run it.

Owner earnings it must reach
Margin the price demands
Owner-earnings margin today−10149%

Two reads of one future. From your price: the owner earnings the company must reach, valued at a mature multiple and discounted back at your rate, expressed as the margin it implies on revenue grown at your rate. From your belief: the mature margin you would credit, set on the dial above. When the margin the price demands runs above the one you would believe, you are paying for a future taken on faith. For a deep cyclical at a trough, normalized through-cycle earnings are the better lens; this mode is for the genuinely unprofitable, and for the profitable business whose capital spending currently outruns its cash.

Cite: Owner Scorecard, "Inhibrx Biosciences Inc. (INBX), the owner's record," https://ownerscorecard.com/c/INBX, data as of 2026-07-09.

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