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CRBU (Caribou Biosciences) Financial Strength : 5 (As of Sep. 2024)


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What is Caribou Biosciences Financial Strength?

Caribou Biosciences has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors:

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.
2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.
3. Altman Z-Score.

GuruFocus does not calculate Caribou Biosciences's interest coverage with the available data. Caribou Biosciences's debt to revenue ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was 3.29. As of today, Caribou Biosciences's Altman Z-Score is -0.60.


Competitive Comparison of Caribou Biosciences's Financial Strength

For the Biotechnology subindustry, Caribou Biosciences's Financial Strength, along with its competitors' market caps and Financial Strength data, can be viewed below:

* Competitive companies are chosen from companies within the same industry, with headquarter located in same country, with closest market capitalization; x-axis shows the market cap, and y-axis shows the term value; the bigger the dot, the larger the market cap. Note that "N/A" values will not show up in the chart.


Caribou Biosciences's Financial Strength Distribution in the Biotechnology Industry

For the Biotechnology industry and Healthcare sector, Caribou Biosciences's Financial Strength distribution charts can be found below:

* The bar in red indicates where Caribou Biosciences's Financial Strength falls into.



Caribou Biosciences Financial Strength Calculation

GuruFocus Financial Strength Rank measures how strong a company's financial situation is. It is based on these factors

A company ranks high with financial strength is likely to withstand any business slowdowns and recessions.

1. The debt burden that the company has as measured by its Interest Coverage (current year). The higher, the better.

Note: If both Interest Expense and Interest Income are empty, while Net Interest Income is negative, then use Net Interest Income as Interest Expense.

Interest Coverage is a ratio that determines how easily a company can pay interest expenses on outstanding debt. It is calculated by dividing a company's Operating Income (EBIT) by its Interest Expense:

Caribou Biosciences's Interest Expense for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $0.00 Mil. Its Operating Income for the months ended in Sep. 2024 was $-38.24 Mil. And its Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 was $25.46 Mil.

Caribou Biosciences's Interest Coverage for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

GuruFocus does not calculate Caribou Biosciences's interest coverage with the available data.

The higher the ratio, the stronger the company's financial strength is.

Good Sign:

Ben Graham prefers companies' interest coverage to be at least 5. Caribou Biosciences Inc has enough cash to cover all of its debt. Its financial situation is stable.

2. Debt to revenue ratio. The lower, the better.

Caribou Biosciences's Debt to Revenue Ratio for the quarter that ended in Sep. 2024 is

Debt to Revenue Ratio=Total Debt (Q: Sep. 2024 ) / Revenue
=(Short-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation + Long-Term Debt & Capital Lease Obligation) / Revenue
=(1.178 + 25.463) / 8.096
=3.29

3. Altman Z-Score.

Z-Score model is an accurate forecaster of failure up to two years prior to distress. It can be considered the assessment of the distress of industrial corporations.

The zones of discrimination were as such:

When Z-Score is less than 1.81, it is in Distress Zones.
When Z-Score is greater than 2.99, it is in Safe Zones.
When Z-Score is between 1.81 and 2.99, it is in Grey Zones.

Caribou Biosciences has a Z-score of -0.60, indicating it is in Distress Zones. This implies bankrupcy possibility in the next two years.

Warning Sign:

Altman Z-score of -0.6 is in distress zone. This implies bankruptcy possibility in the next two years.

* For Operating Data section: All numbers are indicated by the unit behind each term and all currency related amount are in USD.
* For other sections: All numbers are in millions except for per share data, ratio, and percentage. All currency related amount are indicated in the company's associated stock exchange currency.


Caribou Biosciences  (NAS:CRBU) Financial Strength Explanation

The maximum rank is 10. Companies with rank 7 or higher will be unlikely to fall into distressed situations. Companies with rank of 3 or less are likely in financial distress.

Caribou Biosciences has the Financial Strength Rank of 5.


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Caribou Biosciences Business Description

Traded in Other Exchanges
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Address
2929 7th Street, Suite 105, Berkeley, CA, USA, 94710
Caribou Biosciences Inc is a clinical-stage Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of patients with devastating diseases by applying its novel CRISPR platform, CRISPR hybrid RNA-DNA (chRDNA), toward the development of next-generation, genome-edited cell therapies. The company operates and manage business as one reportable operating segment, which is the business of developing a pipeline of allogeneic CAR-T and CAR-NK cell therapies.
Executives
Syed Ali-aamir Rizvi officer: Chief Medical Officer C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ryan Fischesser officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Steven Kanner officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
David Lee Johnson director C/O GLOBAL BLOOD THERAPEUTICS, 171 OYSTER POINT BLVD, STE. 300, SAN FRANCISCO CA 94080
Barbara G Mcclung officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ruhi Ahmad Khan officer: Chief Business Officer C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Dara Richardson-heron director C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 29, BERKELEY CA 94710
Ran Zheng director 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Nancy Whiting director 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Fmr Llc 10 percent owner, other: See Remark 1 245 SUMMER STREET, BOSTON MA 02210
Natalie Sacks director C/O ADURO BIOTECH, INC., 740 HEINZ AVENUE, BERKELEY CA 94710
Scott Braunstein director C/O ESPERION THERAPEUTICS, INC., 3891 RANCHERO DRIVE, SUITE 150, ANN ARBOR MI 48108
Rachel E. Haurwitz director, officer: See Remarks C/O CARIBOU BIOSCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710
Andrew Guggenhime director C/O VAXCYTE, INC., 825 INDUSTRIAL ROAD, STE. 300, SAN CARLOS CA 94070
Jason O'byrne officer: See Remarks CARIBOU BIOCIENCES, INC., 2929 7TH STREET, SUITE 105, BERKELEY CA 94710

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