The board recommends dividend of Rs 3.5 per share
Nifty Pharma index down 10.6% during current week, set to post its sharpest decline since Oct 2008
Regulatory filing by FDA marks a significant milestone to advance for tildrakizumab: Sun Pharma Ceo
The stock dipped 8% to Rs 589, its lowest level since November 2016 on BSE.
Drug major Sun Pharmaceutical Industries has received 11 observations from the US health regulator after inspection of its Dadra facility. The company's Dadra facility underwent an inspection by United States Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) recently. This inspection was completed on April 13, 2017, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said in a BSE filing today. "A Form-483 observation letter was issued by the USFDA post the inspection, listing 11 observations," it added. The company, however, did not provide any details about the observations made by the US health regulator. As per USFDA, a FDA Form 483 is issued to firm management at the conclusion of an inspection,"when an investigator(s) has observed any conditions that in their judgement may constitute violations of the Food Drug and Cosmetic (FD&C) Act and related Acts". It notifies the company's management of objectionable conditions at the facility. "We are currently in the process of responding to the said letter to
Dadra is firm's second most important plant serving US market, contributes $250 mn; Stock dips 3%
Mumbai, 27 MarchSun Pharmaceutical's subsidiary, Taro, made a tiny acquisition of Thallion Pharmaceuticals for $1.7 million in Canada on March 17. It was the ninth acquisition by Sun Pharma and its subsidiaries in the previous two years since it made a $4.2-billion big-bang acquisition of Ranbaxy Laboratories in 2015.Till the acquisition of Ranbaxy, the company had made only seven acquisition in 18 years, including Taro Pharma in Israel in 2010. The first was in 1997, when it acquired US-based Caraco for $37.5 million. This gave the Dilip Shanghvi-promoted company an entry into the lucrative US markets."With the Ranbaxy acquisition, Sun Pharma got a wide marketing platform," says Ajay Garg, managing director, Equirus Capital, a home-grown investment banking firm advising on pharma mergers and acquisitions. "Following this, they have adopted a string of pearls strategy by largely acquiring specialty product companies which they can milk well across the marketing platform."Thallion ...
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A class action suit has been filed against Inda-based Sun Pharmaceutical and US-based Mylan in a district court in Pennsylvania, America. Filed last week, it accuses the two companies of colluding to raise the price of albuterol sulfate tablets. Albuterol is a bronchodilator, used by patients suffering from wheezing. The suit has been filed by the United Food and Commercial Workers local unit (Local 1500); the union is the largest in New York. The suit is also against Sandoz, with the union alleging Mylan and Sandoz colluded to increase the price of Benazepril, another drug for a respiratory ailment. The allegation against Sun is that Mylan and it had raised their prices for albuterol sulfate by over 3,000 per cent between October 2013 and April 2014. Business Standard has a copy of the complaint. It reads, "Beginningin May 2013, defendants caused the price of albuterol sulfate to dramatically increase in unison. The increases were the result of an agreement among them to increase ...
The Sun Pharma stock has tested investors' patience by underperforming the broader indices for a long period. Even recently, after disappointment with December quarter performance, it had slipped to ~622.5 levels. However, things seem to be turning around for the company, part of which is also reflecting in the stock's recovery to ~707.25 now. Large part of this 14 per cent rally has been fuelled by the clearance of Mohali plant by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA).For one, the Mohali plant had been under import alert since September 2013. While this suggests that drug filings from the plant before the period may not have much commercial significance now, its clearance has renewed confidence in the management's ability to resolve FDA issues. The company not only had inherited Ranbaxy's plants (including Mohali) with FDA issues, but its own major plant at Halol (Gujarat) received warning letter; its resolution is crucial to drive growth. With no clarity on timeline for ...
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said it would remove the nearly three-year old import sanction on Sun Pharma's Mohali plant which would allow the company to resume exports from the plant. India's largest drug maker informed the exchanges about the US FDA's intimation for removal of the plant from the Official Action Initiated (OAI) status. The proposed action will clear the path for Sun Pharma to supply approved products from Mohali subject to normal regulatory requirements."Mohali facility clearance will help Sun Pharma to expand capacity, de-risk future fillings and realize manufacturing synergies from the Ranbaxy acquisition which were long awaited by the street," said Anmol Ganjoo, director at domestic brokerage J M Financial Institutional Securities. However, he ruled out any immediate benefits from it. "Given that the pending abbreviated new drug applications would be at least 3-4 years old, we do not expect any significant launches in the near future but regular ...
The drug major had inherited the facility as part of its acquisition of Ranbaxy in 2015
The stock moved higher by 7% to Rs 729 on the NSE on back of heavy volumes.
Halol plant is key for Sun Pharma and contributed in high single digits to its US sales
The stock declined by 4.25% to end at Rs 622.50 on BSE. Intra-day, it lost 4.47% to Rs 621.05
Sun also said sales in its emerging markets rose 14% and those in the rest of the world were up 33%
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