Company Analysis

BioNTech SE (BNTX)

Nasdaq: BNTX · Biological Products, (No Diagnostic Substances) · Mainz, DE · filing with the SEC since 2019
Grade5.9
◀ Past 6.8● Present 5.8▶ Future 5.0
1 est.

The grade of BioNTech SE

Nine metrics read from its own filings, by tense
Headline grade
5.9/10
◀ Past6.830% of the headline
● Present5.840% of the headline
▶ Future5.030% of the headline

All three tenses have at least two readings, so the archetype blend applies as printed.

Of the nine metrics, 8 read as filed from the record and 1 is an SI estimate, each with its reasoning, its confidence and what would change it on its card.

◀ Past

What did they actually do?

6.8/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Surviving crises

as filed
8.0/10

Has it survived what it has been through?

No warning events in its filings since 2019.

weight 33% of this tense · 80th percentile among 159 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

BioNTech SE's filings since 2019 show no warning events in the scan: no bankruptcy or receivership notice, no debt default notice, no exchange listing notice, no restatement warning, no auditor change, no material cyber incident and no late-report notice (its current reports).

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Track record

as filed
6.4/10

What has it actually done, year after year?

+61.6% a year over 9 filed years; profitable in 4 of 9.

weight 45% of this tense · 64th percentile among 102 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BioNTech SE's 9 filed years say what it did: revenue went from EUR 62 million in fiscal 2017 to EUR 2.9 billion in fiscal 2025, up 61.6% a year; it rose in 4 of 8 years; the deepest fall was 86% from fiscal 2021 to fiscal 2024; net income was positive in 4 of 9 of those years (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue growth over the filed span61.6%top 16% of its family
  • the share of years revenue rosebottom 42% of its family
  • the share of filed years with a profittop 11% of its family
  • the deepest fall from a revenue peak85.5%bottom 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Shareholder treatment

as filed
5.8/10

How has it treated the people who own it?

Share count shrank 1.1% a year. 0% of cash flow returned. Insiders: 27 sales, 0 purchases.

weight 22% of this tense · 58th percentile among 21 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

Over the 3 fiscal years to 2025-12-31, BioNTech SE's diluted share count shrank about 1.1% a year, and dividends and buybacks returned about 0% of its operating cash flow over 3 years (its filed statements). Its officers and directors filed 27 sales (27 under scheduled 10b5-1 plans) and 0 purchases of their own stock on the open market in the year to 2026-10-09 (their Form 4 filings).

What it rests on

  • the share count over the yearstop 7% of its family
  • cash returned against operating cash flowbottom 24% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

● Present

What are they doing right now?

5.8/1040% of the headline grade · 2 of 3 filed, 1 estimated

Financial health

as filed
7.5/10

Is it financially healthy right now?

ROE -6%: lost 6¢ per shareholder dollar. Leverage 13%: owes 13¢ per asset dollar.

weight 45% of this tense · 75th percentile among 147 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

Return on equity: in the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31, BioNTech SE lost about 6 cents for every dollar of shareholders' money, and gross profitability: its products earned about 10 cents per dollar of everything the company owns (revenue less the cost of revenue). Leverage: it owed about 13 cents per dollar of assets, and net share issuance: its share count grew 0.5% over the year (the filed statements).

What it rests on

  • what it owes per dollar of assetstop 15% of its family
  • return on equitytop 15% of its family
  • gross profit against assetsbottom 39% of its family
  • the share count against the year beforetop 7% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Industry position

as filed
4.1/10

How strong is its position in its industry?

bottom 41% of 102 in its family; net margin -39.6%.

weight 33% of this tense · 41st percentile among 102 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BioNTech SE's standing among 102 graded names in its industry family: revenue of EUR 2.9 billion in fiscal 2025 is not ranked by size, since the family reports in another currency; a net margin of -39.6% ranks in the top 31%; revenue growth of -45.1% a year over the last 3 filed years ranks in the bottom 13% (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • net margin-39.6%top 31% of its family
  • three-year revenue growth-45.1%bottom 13% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Leadership

SI estimate
5.0/10

What are the people in charge doing?

SI estimate 5.0/10, confidence 20 of 100 (family median).

weight 22% of this tense · 50th percentile among 130 sector filers · read for its shareholders

SI estimate Inferred, not read as filed

Why it is an estimate
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 130 members with one.
What the record cannot read
It files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge.
How it was reasoned
family median, 130 readings behind it.
Confidence
20 of 100
What would change it
Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

From the record

SI estimate, not a filed reading: BioNTech SE's leadership is put at 5.0 of 10 with a confidence of 20 of 100, because it files no Form 8-K (a foreign issuer reports on Form 6-K), so officer and director changes cannot be read there; the record of its people begins on 2026-03-18 (a listing, a merger or a first filing under the rules) and its chief executive and most of the people in charge have filed since then, so the record shows a floor of 8 months and cannot see past it; a floor under five years is not read as years in charge, so the desk assumes the typical reading of its industry family, the median of 130 members with one. Its next annual report on file with the inputs replaces this estimate with the filed reading.

▶ Future

What are they set up to do next?

5.0/1030% of the headline grade · 3 of 3 filed

Room to expand

as filed
6.0/10

How much room does it have to grow?

top 40% of 92 in its family for room to expand.

weight 45% of this tense · 60th percentile among 92 sector filers · read for itself

From the record

BioNTech SE's room to grow, from the newest filed statements (fiscal 2025): cash of EUR 7.7 billion against no long-term debt tagged leaves 34.9% of its assets as net cash, top 44% of its family; cash from operations less capital spending is 9.8% of revenue (top 16%); a gross margin of 77.6% (top 37%); research spending of 73.3% of revenue (bottom 37%) (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • cash less debt against assets34.9%top 44% of its family
  • cash from operations less capital spending against revenue9.8%top 16% of its family
  • gross margin77.6%top 37% of its family
  • research spending against revenue73.3%bottom 37% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Growth drivers

as filed
4.4/10

What could actually drive growth from here?

bottom 44% of 100 in its family for growth drivers.

weight 33% of this tense · 44th percentile among 100 sector filers · read for its customers

From the record

BioNTech SE's growth drivers, from the filed years to fiscal 2025: revenue grew -45.1% a year over the last three filed years against 61.6% over all 9, slowing (bottom 6% of its family); the newest year grew 4.3% (bottom 41%); research spending grew 11% a year (top 30%); capital spending grew -19% a year (top 41%) (its annual reports). BioNTech SE reported 3 product lines in fiscal 2025: COVID19 Vaccine Revenues at EUR 2.0 billion (70%), Revenues From Out Licensing at EUR 613 million (21%), Other Sales at EUR 262 million (9%); 0 of 2 grew against the year before (its annual report).

What it rests on

  • three-year growth against the whole span-106.7 points a yearbottom 6% of its family
  • the newest year's revenue growth4.3%bottom 41% of its family
  • three-year growth of research spending11.0%top 30% of its family
  • three-year growth of capital spending-19.0%top 41% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

Expectations vs reality

as filed
4.0/10

Did its newest year beat what its own record pointed to?

bottom 40% of 72 in its family for expectations against reality.

weight 22% of this tense · 40th percentile among 72 sector filers · read for its shareholders

From the record

BioNTech SE's newest year against its own record: revenue of EUR 2.9 billion in fiscal 2025 came in 161.5% above the EUR 1.1 billion its prior three years' pace pointed to (top 16% of its family); net income of EUR 1.1 billion against a prior three-year average of EUR 3.2 billion (bottom 11%); a net margin of -39.6% against 18.2% before (bottom 26%) (its annual reports).

What it rests on

  • revenue against the prior three years' pace161.5%top 16% of its family
  • net income against the prior three years' average-135%bottom 11% of its family
  • net margin against its prior average-57.8 pointsbottom 26% of its family

A production reading, recomputed from the filings on every data build, read from EDGAR Nov 13, 2026.

The grade is the company against its own industry, from its filings. It is not a view on the share price. How the grade is made

SI Assistanton BNTX · research, not advice