One-glance verdict
$58.38 our estimate vs market $25.94
Wall Street consensus: $29.94 (-48.7% lower than our fair-value estimate)
56% below our estimate, below the bear case
Fundamentals snapshot
DOCS · NYQ · Healthcare · Health Information Services
Current price
$25.94
52-week range
$17.15 - $76.51
Market cap
$4.62B
One-glance verdict
Wall Street consensus: $29.94 (-48.7% lower than our fair-value estimate)
56% below our estimate, below the bear case
Balance sheet
Net cash $678.12M. Interest coverage shows how many times profit covers the interest bill.
What stands out
What this company does
Doximity operates an online platform, similar to a private social network, where a large majority of U.S. doctors and medical professionals connect and access medical news. The company makes most of its money by selling highly targeted advertising to pharmaceutical companies and hospitals that want to reach this specific audience of healthcare providers. This business model is powerful because it provides advertisers a direct channel to the people who make critical decisions about which medications and treatments patients use.
Doximity was founded in 2010 to create a private online network for doctors, something like a LinkedIn just for medical professionals. The founders realized that doctors needed a secure way to connect with colleagues for referrals and to discuss cases. The company grew by offering free, useful tools that made doctors' daily work easier, such as a feature to call patients from their personal cell phones without revealing their number. This focus on being a helpful utility led to very high adoption, with over 80% of U.S. physicians joining the platform. The company had a successful initial public offering (IPO, the first time a private company sells its stock to the public) in 2021.
Think of Doximity as a members-only club for U.S. healthcare professionals that is part professional network and part digital toolkit. For its members (doctors, nurse practitioners, etc.), it offers a secure platform to find and communicate with colleagues, read medical news, and use workflow tools like digital faxing and telehealth (conducting patient visits virtually). The platform is free for individual medical professionals to join and use. The company makes money by selling access to this large and specialized audience to pharmaceutical companies, hospitals, and medical recruiting firms.
This is Doximity's largest business, making up most of its revenue. Pharmaceutical companies and health systems pay Doximity to place sponsored content and advertisements in front of its network of medical professionals. For example, a drug manufacturer can pay to show articles about a new medication specifically to doctors who treat the relevant condition. This is valuable because it gives these customers a very targeted way to reach influential decision-makers in the healthcare industry.
This part of the business helps hospitals, clinics, and medical recruiting firms find and hire healthcare professionals. Customers pay a subscription fee that allows them to post job openings and search Doximity's large network of members to find candidates with specific specialties. Think of it as a specialized recruiting service built on top of their professional network. This is a smaller but important part of Doximity's overall business.
Doximity provides software tools that help doctors and hospitals manage their daily work. This includes their 'Dialer' feature, which allows for secure video and voice calls with patients, a service that became very popular during the COVID-19 pandemic. While the basic tools are free for individual doctors, Doximity sells premium and enterprise (company-wide) versions with more features to individuals, small practices, and large health systems. This segment also includes tools for things like on-call scheduling, which it added through the acquisition (when one company buys another) of a company called Amion.
Doximity is heavily investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to become an essential digital assistant for doctors. They are expanding AI-powered tools, like 'Scribe' which helps write clinical notes and 'Ask' which acts as a medical search engine, to save doctors time on administrative tasks. Management believes that hospitals, not just individual doctors, will be the main buyers of these AI tools as they become more concerned with data privacy and accuracy. The company's strategy is to continue providing useful, free tools to keep doctors engaged on the platform while selling more advanced AI and marketing solutions to large healthcare organizations.
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Is it cheap or expensive?
Wall Street consensus is the average analyst price target: $29.94 (-48.7% lower than our fair-value estimate).
Our most-likely fair value is $58.38 a share — about 125.0% above today's price of $25.94, so the stock currently looks cheap (undervalued).
Is it drowning in debt?
Net cash $678.1M - more cash than debt. Interest coverage 6.0x.
Doximity, Inc.'s profit covers its interest bill about 6.0 times over. which is stronger than every peer shown here and 2 peers sit below 1x, which is the danger zone where profit does not fully cover the interest bill.
Total debt $9.67M Interest coverage 6.02x This is the baseline the peer rows are being compared against.
Total debt $151.70M Interest coverage 3.43x -43% vs DOCS Carries about 1.8x less debt cushion than DOCS.
Total debt $1.04B Interest coverage -8.29x -100% vs DOCS This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with DOCS.
Total debt $538.95M Interest coverage 2.05x -66% vs DOCS Carries about 2.9x less debt cushion than DOCS.
Total debt $108.00M Interest coverage -157.90x -100% vs DOCS This peer has almost no interest-payment cushion compared with DOCS.
Total debt $301.94M Interest coverage 1.06x -82% vs DOCS Carries about 5.7x less debt cushion than DOCS.
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