BioLife Solutions, Inc.
BLFS · Healthcare · $1.4B mkt cap · FY2025 filings · Shallow moat ·
Doesn't clear the bar
The five investor questions
2021–2025 (latest 5 aligned FYs; v3 window cap 5): revenue $119M to $96.2M, decreasing; diluted EPS -0.23 to -0.10, increasing.
Median gross margin 64.6% over 7y, very stable.
Median ROIC -3.8%, above the 12% hurdle in 11% of years.
Net cash position — no leverage risk.
Owner earnings changed trend unclear over up to the ten most recent annual observations.
Price vs. value if growth stopped today
A cautious baseline, not a price target: what the shares may support if normalized owner earnings simply hold steady.
- Not reported
- Unavailable — insufficient owner-earnings data
- Unavailable — insufficient growth-model data
- $29.98
- No price data
This zero-growth estimate assumes trailing owner earnings persist — unreliable for declining businesses. The recent FY revenue series does not trigger the three-consecutive-declines flag.
Model details under moat-index@3.0.0: zero-growth multiple 11.1×, capped-growth comparison at no more than 18×; 9% discount rate; high-end growth 0% (capped at 4%) using min(5y revenue CAGR, 5y diluted-EPS CAGR), clamped to 0%–4%; maintenance capex uses min(capex, D&A); abstain when D&A is unavailable. This is a disclosed model range, not intrinsic value as fact.
17 years of fundamentals
The business, in plain English
BioLife Solutions, Inc. booked $96.2M of revenue in FY2025 in the Healthcare sector and kept 64.6% of it as gross profit — a high-margin business by that measure. After every other cost, −4.8% of each revenue dollar reached the bottom line.
Across the filed record, revenue grew from $2.1M (FY2010) to $96.2M (FY2025) — about 29.1% a year compounded over 15 years.
It earned −3.8% on invested capital in the latest filed year, FY2025. Across the full 11-year measurable filed record, median ROIC was −4.1%. Over the v3 recent window (9 measurable filed years), median ROIC was −3.8%. The Returns on Capital filter above scores it 4/100.
The balance sheet carried $5M of total debt in FY2025. Balance-Sheet Safety scores it 55/100.
Put together: Pricing Power is the strongest of the five filters (96/100) and Returns on Capital the weakest (4/100), which is how BLFS lands at 41/100 — a Shallow moat.
This breakdown is generated from the filed numbers and sub-scores above — no outside narrative, no estimates. Where a filing doesn’t disclose an input, the sentence that would need it is omitted instead of guessed.
Gaps in a line mean that item isn’t in BLFS’s filings for that year. The series is never interpolated or estimated. The Table view lists every filed value, including operating and net margins, total debt, and share count.
Visual explainers
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Moat Score history
Breaks in the line mark methodology or normalizer upgrades — readings across versions aren’t compared, so a level shift there isn’t a change in the business.
Tier changesSame-methodology and same-normalizer crossings of the Wide / Narrow / Shallow bars
- Normalizer upgraded unstamped (version unknown)tomoat-xbrl-normalizer@1.1.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 26, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@2.0.0tomoat-index@3.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 23, 2026
- Methodology upgraded moat-index@1.2.0tomoat-index@2.0.0 — readings across versions aren’t comparedJul 20, 2026
Scores are logged append-only and never overwritten — this record cannot be reconstructed retroactively, which is exactly why it’s worth keeping.
Insider activity
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Healthcare context
#349 of 728 scored Healthcare companies, ranked by Moat Score.
Nearest peers by Moat Score
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Common questions about BLFS
- Does BioLife Solutions, Inc. have an economic moat?
- Based on its FY2025 SEC filings, the Moat Index scores BioLife Solutions, Inc. (BLFS) 40.8 out of 100 — a Shallow moat. The five questions behind that score begin at 20% each; if exactly one genuinely lacks data, the other four weights are renormalized and disclosed. revenue and EPS trend 25, pricing power 96, returns on capital 4, balance-sheet safety 55, capital allocation 24.
- How has BLFS's Moat Score changed over time?
- The record logs 16 readings since Jul 17, 2026; the latest reads 40.8 out of 100 (shallow moat). No tier changes on record yet. (Methodology or normalizer upgrades on Jul 20, 2026, Jul 23, 2026, Jul 26, 2026 re-based the score; readings across versions aren't compared.) The history is append-only — readings are only ever added, never rewritten.