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Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical, Inc.RARECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Health Care›Pharmaceuticals: Major

Rare-disease biopharma with several approved drugs (Crysvita, Dojolvi, Mepsevii) and a broad gene-therapy pipeline.

Momentum leader 84
Mkt cap
$1.52B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
91%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$61.3M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
n/m
no positive forecast
ROIC−WACC
-73.4 pp
WACC 6.1%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
104 days
18 Feb 2027
Close · USD$26.53
1Dn/a
1W+0.3%
1M+2.8%
3M+18.4%
6M+21.7%
YTD+15.3%
1Y-17.2%
ATR %4.9%
Beta1.46
52w lowhigh33.5% off high

What Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical does

Rare-disease biopharma with several approved drugs (Crysvita, Dojolvi, Mepsevii) and a broad gene-therapy pipeline.

Each medicine serves very few patients and is sold at a high price per patient, so a handful of products carry the company. Crysvita, the largest, is shared with Kyowa Kirin. Gene therapies under development are funded by that income and by share sales.

Products and services

  • Crysvita (XLH, with Kyowa Kirin)
  • Dojolvi (LC-FAOD)
  • Mepsevii (MPS VII)
  • Gene-therapy pipeline (Sanfilippo, etc.)

Customers

  • Rare-disease specialists
  • Pediatric metabolic clinics

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Rare-disease biopharma
  • Enzyme-replacement & gene-therapy…
  • Multi-product rare-disease…

What could go right

  • Crysvita royalty/revenue growth
  • Gene-therapy pipeline approvals

What could go wrong

  • High R&D spend across many small-market programs
  • Ultra-rare-disease commercial scale limits

Moat: narrow (IP / patents, regulatory licence). Multiple orphan-drug approvals in ultra-rare diseases with few or no competitors.

Headquarters: Novato, California, US · Founded: 2010 · Employees: 1,371

Named competitors

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical at a glance

Size Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical (RARE) is a United States Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Major) with a market value of $1.52B, the 1982nd largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $26.53 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 21.7%, against -4.5% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 15.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +4.9%); the operating margin is -64.1% (peer median 9.1%).

Valuation It trades at 3.3× enterprise value to sales against a peer median of 6.7× (7th cheapest of 19).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 73.4 points below its cost of capital (6.1% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 20.4% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 18 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012515011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026RARE 124Peer median 95
Six months, rebased to 100: Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$730M$673M$560M$434M$363M
Revenue growth—+20%+29%+20%—
Gross profit$571M$537M$453M$367M$320M
EBITDA-$434M-$500M-$500M-$543M-$631M
Net income-$524M-$575M-$569M-$607M-$707M
Free cash flow-$442M-$472M-$422M-$519M-$497M
Capital expenditure$9.94M$21.0M$20.0M$46.8M$146M
Total debt$1.19B$1.25B$910M$935M$907M

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Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-50%0%+50%-20%0%+20%301263NANO300006002020INDGN298380600572CORONA002626DMRAJUBLPHARMA141080MARKSANSPCRXGPCROCUL603235688062ETON600993RARE6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-50%0%+50%0×50×100×150×301263NANO300006002020INDGN298380CORONA141080603235ETONRARERevenue growth (TTM) →EV / Sales →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical is the large dot.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (RARE vs BMRN vs SAN.PA vs IONS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq g
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical RARE$1.52B+22%+16%-64%3.3×n/a
BioMarin Pharmaceutical BMRN$10.9B+4%+20%19%3.9×6.5%
Sanofi SAN.PA$113B+14%+15%27%2.6×-5.4%
Ionis Pharmaceuticals IONS$6.55B-48%-7%-68%7.7×n/a

How Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureRAREPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+2.8%+0.3%10th highest of 21
6-month return+21.7%-4.5%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-33.5%-19.7%9th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+15.8%+4.9%7th highest of 19
Operating margin-64.1%9.1%6th lowest of 19
EV / Sales3.3×6.7×7th cheapest of 19
ROIC minus cost of capital-73.4 pp-0.4 pp4th lowest of 18

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginEV / SalesReq gDelivered g
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical RAREUnited States$1.52B+22%+16%-64%3.3×n/an/a
Guangdong Taienkang Pharmaceutical 301263.SZChina$1.53B-17%+2%-2%15.1×n/an/a
Nanobiotix NANO.PAFrance$1.54B-42%-77%-392%164.1×n/an/a
Chongqing Lummy Pharmaceutical 300006.SZChina$1.55B+53%-6%-19%13.6×49.9%-13.2%
Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceutical 002020.SZChina$1.49B-17%+1%19%2.3×-8.5%+4.6%
Indegene INDGN.NSIndia$1.56B+15%+36%12%3.3×29.6%+29.4%
ABL Bio 298380.KSSouth Korea$1.49B-73%-64%-251%55.7×n/an/a
Zhejiang CONBA Pharmaceutical 600572.SSChina$1.56B-5%+4%9%1.5×-5.8%+1.9%
Corona Remedies CORONA.NSIndia$1.58B+40%+17%18%9.6×37.6%+16.6%
Xiamen Kingdomway 002626.SZChina$1.58B+15%-3%11%3.4×n/an/a
Damora Therapeutics DMRAUnited States$1.46B-2%n/an/an/an/an/a
Jubilant Pharmova JUBLPHARMA.NSIndia$1.58B-4%+16%9%1.7×n/an/a
LigaChem Biosciences 141080.KSSouth Korea$1.59B-68%-33%-208%18.4×n/an/a
Marksans Pharma MARKSANS.NSIndia$1.45B+50%+24%20%3.9×31.6%+16.6%
Pacira Biosciences PCRXUnited States$1.45B+57%+6%4%2.2×14.9%+11.1%
Structure Therapeutics, Inc. Sponsored ADR GPCRUnited States$1.45B-48%n/an/an/an/an/a
Ocular Therapeutix OCULUnited States$1.45B-32%-8%-603%17.9×n/an/a
JiangXi Tianxin Pharmaceutical 603235.SSChina$1.60B-5%+16%24%3.7×-4.1%+0.2%
Mabwell (Shanghai) Bioscience 688062.SSChina$1.44B-38%+15%-129%15.5×n/an/a
Eton Pharmaceuticals ETONUnited States$1.61B+236%+81%16%15.3×39.6%+359.6%
Mayinglong Pharmaceutical 600993.SSChina$1.62B-4%+7%17%2.2×-4.5%+6.8%

Questions

Who are Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical's main competitors?
Named competitors: BioMarin Pharmaceutical (BMRN), Sanofi (Genzyme) (SAN.PA), Ionis Pharmaceuticals (IONS). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Guangdong Taienkang Pharmaceutical (301263.SZ), Nanobiotix (NANO.PA), Chongqing Lummy Pharmaceutical (300006.SZ), Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceutical (002020.SZ), Indegene (INDGN.NS), ABL Bio (298380.KS).
Is Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical expensive compared with its peers?
On ev / sales it trades at 3.3× against a peer median of 6.7×, 7th cheapest of 19 in its peer set.
How has Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +21.7% against -4.5% for the median peer; over one year -17.2%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.