Atea Pharma.
AVIR
Atea Pharma.
Healthcare Small Cap Updated Dec 26, 2025

Atea lost $2.00 per share in 2024 and still carries a roughly $486 million market cap.

If you own AVIR, you own a biotech with no real revenue and one main thing to prove.

$3.15
Market cap ~$486M · 52-week range $2–$6
39
Composite
Our overall rating — combines growth, value, risk, and momentum
39
/ 100

Weak

Combines growth, value, risk, and momentum factors into a single institutional-grade score.

What it is
Atea is a clinical-stage drug developer trying to turn antiviral lab work into approved pills for viral infections.
How it gets paid
Last year Atea Pharma made n/a in revenue.
What just happened
The cleanest takeaway is still the ugly one: Atea has $0M in TTM revenue and quarterly losses continue.
B balance sheet — gets the job done, barely
20/100 earnings predictability — expect surprises
17.1% return on capital — nothing to write home about
-$2.00 fy2024 eps est
$351M fy2021 rev est
XVARY composite: 39/100 — weak
Atea is a clinical-stage drug developer trying to turn antiviral lab work into approved pills for viral infections.
This is not a scale story. It is a chemistry-and-cash story. Atea has 56 employees, $0 million in long-term debt, and a proprietary nucleos(t)ide platform (drug design system → a repeatable way to build antivirals → your bet is on the platform, not current sales).
healthcare small-cap clinical-stage-biotech antivirals binary-outcome
n/a annual revenue
First pivotal readout
c-beyond
mid-2026 data
This is one of the two major Phase 3 checkpoints tied to the lead hepatitis C program. If you own the stock, this is one of the dates you are really owning.
mid-2026 catalyst
Second pivotal readout
c-forward
by year-end 2026
Second dataset, same broad thesis. One readout can move the stock. Two readouts shape whether the program starts to look durable or just hopeful.
year-end 2026 catalyst
Platform optionality
nucleos(t)ide platform
pre-revenue pipeline
This is the longer-dated part of the story. It matters, but right now the market is not paying up for broad platform dreams when the near-term proof point is still one lead program.
back-half upside
$0M
ttm revenue
Deadpan fact bomb: the business the market values at roughly $486 million currently produces no trailing twelve-month revenue, per Yahoo Finance consensus.
-$2.00
2024 eps
's FY2024 EPS estimate shows losses getting worse, not better. Plain English: cash is still going out faster than progress is coming in.
39.4%
operating margin
Operating margin → profit after running the business → so what: for a pre-revenue biotech, this number is distorted by non-operating items and tells you less than the loss trend.
$0M
long-term debt
Zero long-term debt means the balance sheet is cleaner than most biotechs. That matters because dilution is bad, but debt plus dilution is worse.
B
Strength
  • balance sheet grade B — adequate — nothing special
  • risk rank 4 — safer than 20% of stocks
  • price stability 5 / 100
  • long-term debt $0M (0% of capital)
B — functional but not a standout on the balance sheet.
source: institutional data · return history unavailable
missed estimates
The cleanest takeaway is still the ugly one: Atea has $0M in TTM revenue and quarterly losses continue.
institutional data shows quarterly EPS of -$0.40 for 12/31/24 and FY2024 EPS of -$2.00. Yahoo Finance consensus lists last earnings at -$0.53 and trailing revenue at $0M, which is the quiet part said out loud.
$0M
revenue
-$0.40
q4 eps
39.4%
operating margin
the number that mattered
The number that matters is $0M in TTM revenue, because every other metric is really just a countdown to whether the pipeline becomes a business.
source: quarterly history and Yahoo Finance consensus, 2025

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With AVIR, the risk is not abstract. You are not stress-testing a mature profit machine. You are asking whether a pre-revenue company with $351M in cash can turn two 2026 Phase 3 checkpoints into something durable.

Med
The lead readout fails
If the mid-2026 data disappoints, there is no product revenue to soften the blow and no broad operating story to fall back on.
Impact: the stock likely reprices around reduced program odds, not around minor estimate cuts.
Med
The timeline slips
A delayed readout does not break the science by itself, but it extends the wait and raises the market's sensitivity to cash usage.
Impact: delay risk keeps valuation in limbo longer and can turn patience into discounting.
Med
Cash lasts less comfortably than it looks
$351M sounds like a lot because it is. Trials are expensive because they are. If burn runs hotter than investors expect, the funding conversation gets louder.
Impact: even without debt, dilution risk can become the next debate if the runway stops looking generous.
Med
Volatility is structural
A 5 / 100 price stability score tells you the market will not treat bad headlines gently. Small-cap biotech does not do gentle.
Impact: position sizing matters. The business model does not give you much day-to-day fundamental cushioning.
You are not underwriting steady sales. You are underwriting trial outcomes against a $486M market cap.
Source: institutional data · regulatory filings · risk analysis
Calendar
Mid-2026 Phase 3 data is the first real verdict
Expected mid-2026. This is the highest-signal event on the page. If the data disappoints, the cash balance stops being comforting and starts looking temporary.
Calendar
The second readout by year-end 2026 matters almost as much
A single good result can lift sentiment. Two good results start to look like a thesis. That is the difference between a bounce and a reset in how investors frame the company.
Metric
Cash runway is the operating metric that actually counts
The company had $351M at the end of 2025. Watch every update for how fast that pile shrinks, because pre-revenue biotech math is mostly time divided by burn.
Risk
Price swings are not noise here
A 5 / 100 price stability score tells you the market already expects violent repricing. If you own it, size it like a binary event name, not like a sleepy healthcare compounder.
earnings predictability
20 / 100
in human-speak, you should not expect clean, stable quarter-to-quarter operating patterns from a company with no product revenue
balance-sheet read
B
cash and no debt keep the balance sheet from being the problem. the pipeline still is the story
price behavior
5 / 100
low stability is the market pricing trial risk in real time, not a random chart quirk
Source: institutional data

institutional ownership data for AVIR is being compiled.

Source: institutional data
3-5 year target range
$3 Current price
Target midpoint · from current
target data not available

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