Morphosys is a rare biotech company in that it is both an R&D driven enterprise and is profitable at the same time, thanks mostly to a variety of antibody discovery deals it has signed over the years with pharmaceutical partners. As the company brings more product candidates into the clinic will its profitability become a strategic liability, imposing limits on how much it can spend to drive products forward?
The German antibody discovery company MorphoSys AG has one particularly rare characteristic for an R&D-intensive biotech company: it is profitable. Thanks to a raft of discovery and development alliances that are beginning to mature and a healthy reagents business, MorphoSys can look forward to growing its revenue base for years to come.
But the company's unusual circumstances invite a question that seems ill-suited to the current climate of financial frugality. Being profitable...
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