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Zymeworks Inc.ZYMECompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

United States · USD·Health Care›Pharmaceuticals: Major

Biotech engineering bispecific antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates; zanidatamab targets HER2 cancers with Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

Momentum leader 90
Mkt cap
$2.10B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
97%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$39.9M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
12.0×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-167.7 pp
WACC 10.8%
Hurdle
n/a
no reverse DCF
Next earnings
3 days
9 Nov 2026
Close · USD$29.63
1D+3.1%
1W+3.6%
1M+17.3%
3M+22.6%
6M+24.0%
YTD+12.5%
1Y+64.2%
ATR %4.2%
Beta0.87
52w lowhigh5.9% off high

What Zymeworks does

Biotech engineering bispecific antibodies and antibody-drug conjugates; zanidatamab targets HER2 cancers with Jazz Pharmaceuticals.

Has no product of its own on the market; income arrives as milestone payments and royalties when partners reach goals or sell drugs built on its technology. Jazz holds zanidatamab rights in most of the world outside Asia, where BeiGene holds them for parts of Asia-Pacific.

Products and services

  • Zanidatamab (HER2 cancers, with Jazz)
  • ADC/bispecific licensing platform

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Biopharma R&D
  • Bispecific antibody/ADC platform
  • Partnered oncology development

What could go right

  • Zanidatamab launch/label expansion via Jazz
  • New partner licensing deals

What could go wrong

  • Reliant on partner (Jazz) commercialization execution
  • Royalty/milestone revenue is lumpy

Moat: narrow (IP / patents, process know-how). Proprietary Azymetric bispecific-antibody platform is licensed to multiple large pharma partners.

Headquarters: Vancouver, Canada · Founded: 2003 · Employees: 264

Named competitors

Zymeworks at a glance

Size Zymeworks (ZYME) is a United States Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Major) with a market value of $2.10B, the 1760th largest of 3,117 United States companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at $29.63 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 24.0%, against -12.0% for the median peer and -1.1% for the United States market (cap-weighted) — 6th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 69.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +0.4%); the operating margin is -419.0% (peer median 12.4%).

Valuation It trades at 12.0× forward earnings against a peer median of 19.3× (4th cheapest of 18).

Capital Return on invested capital runs 167.7 points below its cost of capital (10.8% WACC).

Short interest Short interest is 7.9% of the free float (15 Oct 2026).

Next results Next results expected around 9 Nov 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026ZYME 123Peer median 88
Six months, rebased to 100: Zymeworks against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Zymeworks financials

Reported figures in USD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue$37.1M$106M$76.3M$76.0M$412M
Revenue growth—+39%0%-82%—
Gross profit$28.1M$95.2M$65.1M$58.7M$400M
EBITDA-$146M-$81.8M-$109M-$121M$143M
Net income-$150M-$81.1M-$123M-$119M$124M
Free cash flow-$120M-$34.5M-$112M-$121M$136M
Capital expenditure$1.33M$2.35M$3.07M$4.08M$13.1M
Total debt$269M$18.3M$18.5M$26.7M$28.1M

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Zymeworks 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

-25%0%+25%+50%-20%0%+20%DMP600664603456000766000908603707600201PBHH02BHVN6002853010150512PRGOAPLLTD3000096881663933301047ZYME6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Zymeworks is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-75%-50%-25%0%+25%0×25×50×75×DMP600664603456600201PBHH02PRGOAPLLTD300009688166300723301047ZYMERevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Zymeworks is the large dot.

Zymeworks competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (ZYME vs GMAB.CO vs PFE vs ABBV)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Zymeworks ZYME$2.10B+24%-70%-419%12.0×n/a
Genmab A/S GMAB.CO$32.1B+115%+14%32%44.8×11.6%
Pfizer PFE$168B+14%+1%26%10.4×-4.3%
AbbVie ABBV$515B+45%+11%36%18.4×-0.1%
Daiichi Sankyo 4568.T$31.9B+7%+17%13%18.6×7.2%
Xencor XNCR$2.66B+178%-29%-206%n/an/a
Sutro Biopharma STROn/a-76%n/an/an/an/a
Akeso 9926.HK$10.2B-38%+42%-25%n/an/a

How Zymeworks 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.

Zymeworks against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureZYMEPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+17.3%-1.0%3rd highest of 21
6-month return+24.0%-12.0%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-5.9%-32.7%4th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-69.8%+0.4%lowest of 20
Operating margin-419.0%12.4%lowest of 20
Forward P/E12.0×19.3×4th cheapest of 18
ROIC minus cost of capital-167.7 pp-2.5 pplowest of 20

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Zymeworks ZYMEUnited States$2.10B+24%-70%-419%12.0×n/an/a
Dermapharm DMP.DEGermany$2.11B-25%0%22%14.5×-3.8%+8.0%
Harbin Pharmaceutical 600664.SSChina$2.10B+55%+2%5%23.1×-2.9%+8.2%
Zhejiang Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical 603456.SSChina$2.12B+17%-1%14%17.5×2.4%+15.7%
Tonghua Golden-Horse Pharmaceutical Industry 000766.SZChina$2.12B-41%-18%9%n/a37.9%+0.9%
CSPC Hunan Jingfeng Pharmaceutical 000908.SZChina$2.13B-27%+5%-18%n/an/an/a
Nanjing King-friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical 603707.SSChina$2.15B-3%+9%14%22.8×6.1%+6.4%
Jinyu Bio-Technology 600201.SSChina$2.04B-15%+22%10%62.4×24.4%-2.4%
Prestige Consumer Healthcare PBHUnited States$2.04B-18%-1%26%9.3×-0.2%+2.9%
Haw Par H02.SISingapore$2.18B-27%-13%30%12.4×3.7%+15.7%
Biohaven BHVNUnited States$2.19B+47%n/an/an/an/an/a
Henan Lingrui Pharmaceutial 600285.SSChina$2.02B+7%+5%22%15.9×-4.8%+10.6%
Qingdao Baheal Medical 301015.SZChina$2.02B+4%-6%8%23.5×11.9%+5.0%
Grand Pharmaceutical 0512.HKHong Kong$2.01B-27%+7%13%9.8×1.2%+14.1%
Perrigo PRGOUnited States$2.20B+35%-4%5%6.3×13.1%+0.8%
Alembic Pharmaceuticals APLLTD.NSIndia$2.01B+24%+20%12%24.4×25.0%+6.5%
Anhui Anke Biotechnology (Group) 300009.SZChina$2.01B-9%-9%30%19.3×9.1%+9.3%
BrightGene Bio-Medical Technology 688166.SSChina$2.00B-51%+14%7%87.6×38.5%+9.2%
United Laboratories International 3933.HKHong Kong$2.00B-19%-13%5%14.5×3.7%+7.8%
ApicHope Pharmaceutical 300723.SZChina$1.99B-28%-28%-50%25.7×14.0%-11.0%
Sino Biological 301047.SZChina$1.98B+50%+20%17%63.8×36.8%-15.1%

Questions

Who are Zymeworks's main competitors?
Named competitors: Genmab (GMAB.CO), Pfizer (Seagen) (PFE), AbbVie (ImmunoGen) (ABBV), Daiichi Sankyo (4568.T), Xencor (XNCR), Sutro Biopharma (STRO). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Dermapharm (DMP.DE), Harbin Pharmaceutical (600664.SS), Zhejiang Jiuzhou Pharmaceutical (603456.SS), Tonghua Golden-Horse Pharmaceutical Industry (000766.SZ), CSPC Hunan Jingfeng Pharmaceutical (000908.SZ), Nanjing King-friend Biochemical Pharmaceutical (603707.SS).
Is Zymeworks expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 12.0× against a peer median of 19.3×, 4th cheapest of 18 in its peer set.
How has Zymeworks stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +24.0% against -12.0% for the median peer; over one year +64.2%.

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.