Macrogenics

MGNX on Nasdaq. Pharmaceutical preparations. Market value $240m.

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Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Some use the latest annual report instead, as marked. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.

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Cash yield
past 12 months to June 2026
-28.3%low

For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $-28.27 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.

Price to profit
annual report to December 2025
n/a

The filings do not give us enough to work this out.

Return on capital
five annual reports to December 2025
-257.3%five-year median

Each dollar kept in the business earns -257 cents a year. Above 10 is good.

Quality score: 40 of 100. Price score: 0 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.

$3.64 a share, 182% above its 1-year low

Over the past year the price has ranged from $1.29 to $5.08.

Pays no dividend

Prices from Tuesday’s close (6 October).

Five years of cash, in billions

-0.2
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
-0.1
2021202220232024202512 monthsto Jun '26
Revenue
$77m$152m$59m$150m$150m
Operating margin
-261.9%-79.9%-286.4%-73.7%-48.7%
Debt to equity
0.000.000.000.000.00
Shares outstanding
0.06bn0.06bn0.06bn0.06bn0.06bn

Health checks

  • Free cash flow positive0 of 5 years
  • Accounting checksSkipped: company is not yet profitable
  • Debt0.00× equity
  • Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 7.3% a year
  • Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat

The quarter to June 2026

How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.

  • Sales: $33 million last quarter, up 378% on a year ago.
  • Profit: $20 million, after a loss of $36 million a year ago.
  • Over the past 12 months it spent $66 million more cash than it brought in, compared with $75 million a year earlier.
  • 1% more shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit less of the company.
  • It has $114 million more cash than debt, down from $131 million a year ago.
  • Sales grew on a year ago in 3 of the last 4 quarters.
Sales by quarter
Sales by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$111m
December 2024$19m
March 2025$13m
June 2025$7m
September 2025$73m
December 2025$41m
March 2026$21m
June 2026$33m
Profit by quarter
Profit by quarter
Quarter toAmount
September 2024$56m
December 2024-$15m
March 2025-$41m
June 2025-$36m
September 2025$17m
December 2025-$14m
March 2026-$37m
June 2026$20m

From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.

Dates

Next results (estimated)
n/a
Last annual report (10-K)
9 March 2026
Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
13 November 2026

Who owns it

None of the long-term investors we follow own it. 122 funds in all.

Jun '25
Dec '25
Jun '26
Largest holders overall

From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.

Big holders and activists

3 investors own more than 5%.

  • Armistice Capital, LLC
    Passive investor
    at least 7.9%−1.6 pts
    (filed with 1 related holder)
    Since 30 June 2026
  • BlackRock, Inc.
    Passive investor
    7.1%+4.2 pts
    Since 30 June 2026
  • at least 3.7%−1.7 pts
    (filed with 2 related holders)
    Since 30 June 2026
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 June 2026
  • Wasatch Advisors LP
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 September 2025
  • Frazier Life Sciences Public Overage Fund, L.P.
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 30 June 2025
  • The Vanguard Group
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 13 March 2026
  • Frazier Life Sciences Public Fund, L.P.
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 31 December 2025
  • Bellevue Group AG
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 5 December 2025
  • BB Biotech AG
    Passive investor
    Sold down below 5%
    Since 1 June 2025
  • Sold down below 5%
    Since 31 December 2024

From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.

What insiders did

No insider bought shares on the open market in the last 12 months. 1 sold $129,086, $129,086 of it under preset trading plans.

  • Peters Jeffrey Stuart
    Senior VP, GC, and Secretary
    Sold
    under a preset trading plan
    Date
    19 August 2026
    Shares
    31,105
    Price
    $4.15
    Value
    $129,086

From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.

Warning signs in its filings

Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.

None of the warning signs we check for were found.

We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.

We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 9 Mar 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 14 Aug 2026 and 9 later 8-Ks.

A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.

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