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How Viking Therapeutics, Inc. stacks up
VKTX · against 310 other Healthcare companies of similar size
Profitability
9/ 100
Near the bottom of its peers.
Ranked #287 of 311 · scores higher than 8% of peers
Bars: peers in each 10-point band of the profitability score25 peers with a profitability score of 0–9, including VKTX · Click a bar to see the companies
Why profitability scores 9?
Weighted metrics compared with all Healthcare companies.Mainly because of its return on assets and return on invested capital, which are weaker than most Healthcare peers.
- a lower return on assets: weaker than 98% of peers. Return on assets: -102.5% vs peer median 1.7%
- a lower return on invested capital: weaker than 95% of peers. Return on invested capital: -156.6% vs peer median 4.7%
- Operating margin is not reported, so it is left out of the score.
Metric by metric
Position: dot = VKTX, ranked from the worst peer (left) to the best (right); tick = middle, shaded = middle half of peers.| Metric | VKTX | Peer median | Better than | Position among peers | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Return on invested capitalHigher is better · 300 reported | -156.6% | 7.2% | 3% | 33% | |
| Operating marginHigher is better · 287 reported | Not reported | 9.7% | — | — | 33% |
| Return on assetsHigher is better · 294 reported | -102.5% | 2.5% | 1% | 33% | |
| Return on equityHigher is better · 288 reported | -88.9% | 6.8% | 7% | Context only | |
| Gross marginHigher is better · 318 reported | 0.0% | 49.0% | 3% | Context only |
A metric that is not reported is left out of the score; the other weights are rescaled.
Ranking by profitability score
Top 5 and the companies ranked around VKTX| Rank | Company | Market cap | Profitability | Overall |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 3.1B EUR (≈$3.4B) | 100 | 100 | |
| 1 | 321.5B INR (≈$3.9B) | 100 | 70 | |
| 1 | 174.8B INR (≈$2.1B) | 100 | 73 | |
| 4 | 12.3B CNY (≈$1.7B) | 99 | 85 | |
| 4 | 11.2B DKK (≈$1.7B) | 99 | 59 | |
| 283 | 2.2B USD | 11 | 48 | |
| 284 | 3.9B USD | 10 | 47 | |
| 284 | 6.2B USD | 10 | 44 | |
| 284 | 3.0B USD | 10 | 11 | |
| 287 | 3.3B USD | 9 | 39 | |
| 288 | 2.4B USD | 8 | 6 | |
| 288 | 1.9B USD | 8 | 18 | |
| 288 | 5.4B USD | 8 | 24 | |
| 291 | 2.4B USD | 7 | 20 |
Scores are sector-relative percentiles from the latest snapshot, always calculated against the whole sector: narrowing the comparison group changes who you compare with, not the scores. Missing metrics are left out and the remaining weights rescaled. How we score