
Fundamental analysis: DICE Therapeutics, Inc. (DICE)
Awarener score: 2.4
Conclusion
The higher the Awarener score, the more bang you get for the buck. It measures how much genuine funds the company generates for the stock price paid (Poor), the business stability (unknown) and growth (unknown), and the company's inclination to return cash to the stockholders (Bottom).
Note: All scores range from 1 (worst) to 10 (best). Conclusions are updated daily with closing stock prices and new reported quarterly financial statements.
Revenue score: a result could not be reached
- Business growth could not be estimated, due to not enough input data. It's been unavailable to compare with peer companies.
- DICE Therapeutics, Inc. business stability could not be estimated, due to insufficient input data. It looks we cannot compare it to rivals.
Margins score: 1.0
- DICE profit margins -on goods and services sold- are usually destitute. They stand worse than most rival companies.
- Business profit on sales tends to be pauper. It's weak when measured against competitors.
- Profits on sales made -available to repay debt and purchase properties- are usually destitute. They remain in a weak position compared to peers.
- Earnings -before income taxes and interests on loans taken- tend to be pauper in relation to total revenues. They're still mediocre against similar companies.
- Profits -before income taxes- are usually destitute considering total sales, and remain weak when measured against rivals.
- Total net profit tends to be pauper when confronted to sales. Company stands weak when measured against comparable firms.
Growth score: 1.0
- DICE Therapeutics, Inc. has an unknown gross margin growth, as there is not enough data to analyze. It's been impossible to compare to competitors.
- In recent years, the firm hasn't always been able to profit from operations, which has been bottom tier against comparable firms.
- In past years, the company couldn't always turn a profit -available to repay debt and purchase properties-, which compares last-in-rank when measured against peer enterprises.
- In the previous years, the firm couldn't always make a profit -before income taxes and interests on loans taken-. It turns to be a disappointment compared to similar stocks.
- In past years, at least once the company lost money -before income taxes-. It was bottom tier against rivals.
- In the previous years, the firm had at least a total net loss, and last-in-rank when measured against peer companies.
- The company lost money at least once in the past years. It's been a disappointment compared to industry peers.
Miscellaneous score: 1.3
- DICE had still to pay income taxes, even though in recent past years mostly lost money. It's been bottom tier against peers.
- Research and development expenses consume a huge portion of revenues. It's last-in-rank when measured against competitors.
- Business has been shrinking, despite research and development efforts. It stands in a weak position compared to rival companies.
Profitability score: 3.0
- DICE Therapeutics, Inc. usually gets meagre returns on the resources it controls. It proves great when measured against peer firms.
- The company normally gets meagre proceeds -on the resources directly invested in the business-. They remain excellent in relation to similar companies.
- There's usually little profitability -in relation to owned resources-. It ranks great when measured against competitors.
- In the past, got meagre returns -on the tangible resources it controls-. This metric is usually related to the industry in which operates and combines profitability versus reinvestment needs. It's great when measured against comparable enterprises.
Usage of Funds score: 2.6
- DICE on average doesn't generate genuine funds, so to buy or replace property, plants and equipment must either burn existing cash or increase debt. It stands great when measured against rival firms.
- The company is usually somewhat investing in new property, plant, and equipment, to improve its operating capabilities, which is almost average when measured against industry peers.
- In the past twelve months the stock paid no dividends. It came bottom tier against competitors.
- The company pays no dividend, so measuring its growth is meaningless. The company has behaved in an conservative way compared to similar firms.
- As no dividends are paid, it is useless trying to estimate their sustainability in time. Sustainability looks not applicable in regard to comparable companies.
- The company has heavily enlarged the pool of investors in previous years, resulting in more mouths feeding on the pie of profits. It remains in a weak position compared to peer enterprises.
- Repurchase effectiveness metric is very complex. Run again in analytical mode if you're interested in a technical explanation. It stands in a very weak position compared to rivals.
- We do not have sufficient data to comment on buybacks and their sustainability. It still looks dubious against competitors.
Balance Sheet score: 7.3
- DICE Therapeutics, Inc. has no intangible assets (like brands and goodwill) according to accounting books, which is safest. It happens to be top tier when measured against peer companies.
- The company has plenty short-term resources to face short-term obligations. There're no liquidity concerns. It turns to be impressive in relation to similar firms.
- Very few resources controlled were provided for with financial debt. Financial strength is very solid. Company could increase debt if it wished so, to reinvest in business, to buy a smaller company or to reward stockholders. It remains somewhat better than rival firms.
- Most resources controlled are already cash or short-term investments, which is best for liquidity. It looks great when measured against rivals.
- For every dollar of short-term obligations, the company has plenty of dollars in cash and short-term receivables. It's impressive in relation to peer firms.
- For every dollar of short-term obligations, the company has plenty of dollars in cash and equivalents, which is top-notch against similar enterprises.
- Days of sales outstanding are not known, out of lack of data. It still ranks unknown against peers.
- Days of inventory outstanding are not known. It comes up as a big question mark against competitors.
- We could not gauge the normal operating cycle of the company. It happens to be a mystery against peers.
- Unfortunately, we had not enough data to estimate the days of payables outstanding. It ranks unknown against industry peers.
- Cash conversion cycle remains unknown, due to not having enough inputs. It's incomparable against similar companies.
- Company earns net interest income on its investments and therefore is in a quite comfortable financial position. It stands top-notch against rival firms.
- Business has usually been operated at a loss. Unless prospects improve, the company is no position to decrease loans taken levels but by additional shareholders' funding. Profitability must improve. It ranks last-in-rank when measured against comparable enterprises.
- The company didn't have revenues in the past twelve months. It must start having income to take advantage of used resources. It looks in a very weak position compared to similar firms.
- The firm has yet to start reporting any sales. It's still worse than most peer companies.
Valuation score: 3.4
- DICE Therapeutics, Inc. reported losses, so valuating it in relation to earnings is meaningless. It happens to be last-in-rank when measured against competitors.
- Price-to-Tangible-Book-Value is a fairly complex metric. Run again in analytical mode if you're interested in a technical explanation. It remains close to average when compared to peers.
- In the past twelve months, the company consumed funds. Either it reinvested in the business or genuine fund generation might be challenging, which stands well ranked against similar companies.
- The company usually consumes more funds than can genuinely generate. Business needs are meet by borrowing money or consuming preexistent cash, which can only keep up until a certain limit. Unless the company is driving business growth, genuine profitability may be brought into question. It's still encouraging in relation to industry firms.
- In the past twelve months, the company has greatly enlarged the pool of investors by issuing new shares. Future profits need to be high enough to justify the measure, as the pie of earnings will now be split among plenty more stockholders. It came up in a very weak position compared to peer ventures.
- This company is a cash hoarder. It might be well poised to substantially increase stockholder payments, or to fund new business projects. It looks somewhat better than similar enterprises.
- Considering the past twelve months, traditional Price-to-Earnings relation has been negative, as the company lost money. It ranks last-in-rank when measured against peer companies.
- Price-to-Sales ratio is currently an incognita. It looks incomparable with rival firms.
- The relation between the stock price and accounting book value is high, which may be good or bad depending on context. Run again in analytic mode if you want to dig deeper. The company remains somewhat worse than peer firms.
- In the past twelve months, the operating business lost significant money. It happens to be more than average in relation to industry peers.
- In an alternate metric of bang for the buck, the company has usually shown a low earnings power ability when measured against the current stock price and financial position. It's still in good shape compared to peer companies.
Total score: 2.8

Company at a glance: DICE Therapeutics, Inc. (DICE)
Sector, industry: Healthcare, Biotechnology
Market Cap: 1.40 billions
Revenues TTM: unavailable
DICE Therapeutics, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company, builds various oral therapeutic candidates to treat chronic diseases in immunology and other therapeutic areas. Its platform DELSCAPE, is designed to discover selective oral small molecules to modulate protein-protein interactions (PPIs) as effectively as systemic biologics. The company's lead therapeutic candidate is DC-806, an oral antagonist of the pro-inflammatory signaling molecule, interleukin-17, which is a validated drug target implicated in a various immunology indications. It is also developing oral therapeutic candidates targeting a4ß7 integrin for the treatment of inflammatory bowel diseases, as well as targeting aVß1/aVß6 integrin for the treatment of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. In addition, the company focuses on immuno-oncology for antibody therapeutics. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is headquartered in South San Francisco, California.
Awarener score: 2.4
Conclusion
The higher the Awarener score, the more bang you get for the buck. It measures how much genuine funds the company generates for the stock price paid (Poor), the business stability (unknown) and growth (unknown), and the company's inclination to return cash to the stockholders (Bottom).