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Diabetes: 9 biotech companies competing in the clinic

Cardiovascular & MetabolicKnife fightData as of 2026-09-04

Competitors9in the clinic
Median market cap$401Muniverse median $1.20B
Allocated capital$3.2B$6.4B competing
Phase 3 or filed44 mid, 1 early
Pure plays4this indication only
Capital rank65/299crowding rank 11

Diabetes is one of the more crowded fields on the map: 9 companies in the clinic, ranking it 11th of 299 indications by competitor count. The median competitor is worth $401M, below the $1.20B median of the universe.

That gap is the crowding discount. When a field is deep the market pays less per company, because the same eventual revenue has to be split across more shots on goal.

No one owns the field: the largest company, IMCR, holds only 30% of the $6.4B competing here.

$3.2B of allocated capital sits in Diabetes, 65th of 299 indications, and 4 of the 9 companies are pure plays that trade on this indication alone.

Companies developing drugs for Diabetes 9

TickerCompanyLead assetPhaseTrialsMarket capPure playIndicationsNext catalyst
LXRXLexicon PharmaceuticalsSotagliflozinPhase 33$1.0BNo2 31 Dec 2026
PROKProKidneyRenal Autologous Cell TherapyPhase 31$401MYes1 30 Jun 2027
SABSSAB BiotherapeuticsSAB-142Phase 32$338MYes1 31 Dec 2026
ORMPOramed PharmaceuticalsORMD-0801Phase 31$205MYes1No dated event
MNKDMannKindTechnosphere InsulinPhase 22$1.3BNo3 31 Dec 2027
DSGNDesign TherapeuticsFarxiga+ Onglyza+ Metformin Mix Treat type 2 diabetesPhase 22$941MNo6 31 Dec 2026
BMEABiomea FusionicovamenibPhase 22$138MNo3 30 Sep 2026
VTVTvTv TherapeuticsCadisegliatinPhase 21$132MYes1 31 Dec 2026
IMCRImmunocore HoldingsIMC-S118AIPhase 11$1.9BNo2 31 Dec 2026

Sorted by phase, then by market capitalisation. Ticker links open the company profile. IMCR holds 30% of the $6.4B competing in this indication.

Why Diabetes is a knife fight

Crowded and cheaply priced. Six or more competitors and a median company below the universe median.

The map splits indications on two folds: six or more competitors counts as crowded, and a median company above $1.20B counts as richly priced. Diabetes has 9 competitors and a median of $401M.

Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Cardiovascular & Metabolic holds $89.7B of the map's capital, 13.4% of the total, spread across 29 indications and 44 companies. 9 of those indications have more than one company competing.

See every Cardiovascular & Metabolic indication on the map

Diabetes pipeline questions

Which biotech companies are developing drugs for Diabetes?

9 US-listed companies in the $100M to $20B market cap band run clinical programmes in Diabetes. The largest and most advanced are Lexicon Pharmaceuticals (LXRX, Sotagliflozin, Phase 3); ProKidney (PROK, Renal Autologous Cell Therapy, Phase 3); SAB Biotherapeutics (SABS, SAB-142, Phase 3); Oramed Pharmaceuticals (ORMP, ORMD-0801, Phase 3); MannKind (MNKD, Technosphere Insulin, Phase 2). The full list of 9 is in the table on this page.

How advanced is the Diabetes pipeline?

Of the 9 clinical-stage programmes in Diabetes, 4 are in Phase 3 or filed, 4 are in mid-stage development and 1 is in early-stage development.

How much is the typical Diabetes biotech company worth?

The median company developing a drug for Diabetes is worth $401M, against a median of $1.20B across the whole universe. $3.2B of allocated capital sits in the indication, ranking it 65th of 299.

When is the next Diabetes catalyst?

The next dated catalyst in Diabetes is BMEA on 30 Sep 2026. 7 dated events across the field fall in the next 12 months.

How this page is built

  • Universe is US-listed drug developers with a $100M to $20B market capitalisation, identified by SEC SIC code 2833, 2834 or 2836 or by a pharmaceutical or biotechnology industry classification, less a reviewed exclusion list of contract research organisations, device and diagnostics makers and diversified generics manufacturers.
  • An asset attributed to three or more different companies is treated as shared standard of care rather than any one company’s programme and excluded. Pembrolizumab alone appears under 21 tickers in raw trial data.
  • A programme counts only where at least one industry-sponsored trial supports it, so investigator-initiated academic studies of third-party drugs are excluded.

Allocated capital divides each company’s market capitalisation evenly across the indications it is running clinical programmes in, so every dollar of the universe is counted exactly once. Total market capitalisation competing counts a company in each of its indications and therefore sums to more than the universe.

Third-party market size estimates are not used anywhere on this page. Approved incumbents are excluded from competitor counts, and companies above $20B are outside the universe by construction.

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