Codexis, Inc.CDXS

NasdaqMaterialsIndustrial Organic Chemicals
Price (close)
$1.32
Market cap
$120.6M
P/E
—
Revenue (TTM)
$77.7M
Net income
-$30.7M
Dividend yield
—
1-year total return
-45.0%
Net margin
-39.6%
Revenue growth
35.9%
Debt / equity
1.24x

What Codexis, Inc. does.

We are a leading provider of technology solutions to improve therapeutics manufacturing. We focus on impacting the manufacturing process by using o ur proprietary CodeEvolver ® directed evolution technology platform to discover, develop, enhance, and commercialize novel, high-performance enzymes and other classes of proteins. Enzymes are naturally occurring biological molecules critical to almost all biochemical reactions. They can be precisely engineered and optimized for specific functions, and to have particular characteristics, such as an ability to survive environments in which natural enzymes cannot, or to perform (bio)chemical transformations that are different than those for which they naturally evolved. We employ our technology and expertise to enhance the properties and performance of enzymes to drive pivotal improvements in manufacturing of complex therapeutics across two key areas: our ECO synthesis manufacturing platform and our small molecule pharma biocatalysis business.

Our ECO Synthesis ® manufacturing platform is comprised of enzymatic tools and processes that are designed to enable large-scale manufacture of RNA interference (“RNAi”) therapeutics. We use the CodeEvolver platform technology to develop enzymes for the synthesis of RNAi therapeutics in production processes that deliver improvements, including purity, yield, and manufacturing efficiency. In November 2024, we presented data at the TIDES Europe conference demonstrating the successful end-to-end enzymatic synthesis of an entire commercially approved small interfering ribonucleic acid (“siRNA”) therapeutic asset with the ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform. In addition to using full enzymatic sequential synthesis, adding one nucleotide at a time to synthesize the two strands from beginning to end, we demonstrated synthesis of the same siRNA asset using three other routes utilizing enzymatic ligation with our double-stranded RNA (“dsRNA”) ligase, which can stitch together fragments of chemically and/or enzymatically synthesized RNA to form the full siRNA drug structure. For the three other routes, our data highlighted that full-length oligonucleotides of equal quality and yields were obtained whether the fragments were made with enzymes or by traditional solid phase oligonucleotide synthesis (“SPOS”) (current standard production route for oligonucleotide manufacturing). At the end of 2024, we completed the build out of our ECO Synthesis Innovation Lab, a facility where our ECO Synthesis manufacturing platform is deployed to synthesize gram-scale quantities of a customer’s desired siRNA construct suitable for pre-clinical testing. In addition, the infrastructure allows us to provide process development, analytical method development and other manufacturing process optimization which is required to enable the siRNA to proceed to clinical-stage manufacturing and testing. In 2025, we successfully manufactured non- good manufacturing practice (“GMP”)-grade siRNA drug substance for customers in our Innovation Lab under development services contracts. We also entered into partnerships with three large-scale contract development and manufacturing organizations (“CDMOs”) to evaluate our ECO platform of enzymatic tools and processes to ultimately synthesize GMP -grade siRNA drug substance for our customers. In each of these agreements, we are currently in the feasibility testing stage and expect to advance at least one of these partnerships, including initiating a technology transfer to that organization, in 2026. We believe these relationships to be a vital extension of our strategy to be a technology solutions provider for our customers. Through these arrangements, our customers will have access to proven, large-scale commercial manufacturers who are familiar with our process, and who can then offer a seamless manufacturing scale-up of our customers’ products. We expect to expand our enzymatic tools and process offerings as we further enhance the ECO Synthesis platform to address the overall market needs for scalable and sustainable RNAi manufacturing.

Revenue and profit, by fiscal year.

Fiscal year202020212022202320242025
Revenue$69.1M$104.8M$138.6M$70.1M$59.3M$70.4M
Net income-$24.0M-$21.3M-$33.6M-$76.2M-$65.3M-$44.0M
Free cash flow-$20.2M-$28.1M$3.0M-$57.1M-$53.7M-$23.8M

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Figures from Codexis, Inc.'s filings with the U.S. SEC, standardised automatically; prices are end-of-day closes. Not financial advice.