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Livzon Pharmaceutical Group, Inc. Class A000513.SZCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

China · CNY·Health Care›Pharmaceuticals: Major

Zhuhai-based pharmaceutical group making generics, diagnostic reagents and biologic/vaccine products.

Momentum leader 85
Mkt cap
$3.71B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
56%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$54.8M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
16.9×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+10.1 pp
WACC 5.0%
Hurdle
-13 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
145 days
31 Mar 2027
Close · CNYCN¥31.35
1D+1.7%
1W+9.9%
1M+5.9%
3M+1.1%
6M-4.0%
YTD-9.0%
1Y-15.8%
ATR %3.5%
52w lowhigh17.2% off high

What Livzon Pharmaceutical does

Zhuhai-based pharmaceutical group making generics, diagnostic reagents and biologic/vaccine products.

Sells medicines and diagnostic kits to Chinese hospitals and labs, where government drug-purchasing rules press prices on older generics and test kits sell on lab volume. Joincare Pharmaceutical, a listed Chinese drug group, is the controlling shareholder. The same company also trades in Hong Kong as 1513.HK.

Products and services

  • Generic pharmaceuticals
  • In-vitro diagnostic reagents
  • Biologics/vaccines

Customers

  • Hospitals
  • Diagnostic labs

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Health Care
  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Generics + diagnostics + biologics

What could go right

  • Diagnostics and biologics pipeline growth

What could go wrong

  • Centralized procurement price cuts

Moat: narrow (scale, regulatory licence). Broad, diversified drug and diagnostics portfolio built over decades.

Headquarters: Zhuhai, China · Employees: 8,878

Named competitors

Livzon Pharmaceutical at a glance

Size Livzon Pharmaceutical (000513.SZ) is a China Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Major) with a market value of $3.71B, the 696th largest of 4,839 China companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at CN¥31.35 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares fell 4.0%, against +2.0% for the median peer and -16.4% for the China market (cap-weighted) — 10th lowest of 20 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue fell 13.7% over the last twelve months (peer median +6.7%); the operating margin is 19.2% (peer median 15.7%).

Valuation It trades at 16.9× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.5× (6th cheapest of 16).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is -13 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 10.1 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 31 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

809010011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026Peer median 97000513.SZ 96
Six months, rebased to 100: Livzon Pharmaceutical against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Livzon Pharmaceutical financials

Reported figures in CNY; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
RevenueCN¥10.2BCN¥11.9BCN¥11.7BCN¥12.3BCN¥12.5B
Revenue growth—+2%-5%-2%—
Gross profitCN¥6.62BCN¥7.63BCN¥7.45BCN¥7.40BCN¥7.75B
EBITDAn/aCN¥3.18BCN¥3.18BCN¥2.79BCN¥2.60B
Net incomeCN¥1.56BCN¥2.02BCN¥2.06BCN¥1.95BCN¥1.91B
Free cash flowCN¥2.77BCN¥2.60BCN¥2.42BCN¥2.57BCN¥1.96B
Capital expenditureCN¥412MCN¥574MCN¥570MCN¥820MCN¥940M
Total debtCN¥4.20BCN¥3.85BCN¥4.95BCN¥5.04BCN¥4.63B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Livzon Pharmaceutical competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+50%+100%-25%0%+25%+50%AMLX0007393320ACADOGN2096XENE6882664536600521ROVI002262LQDAVKTX2696688180000513.SZ6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Livzon Pharmaceutical is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+1,000%+2,000%20×40×0007393320ACADOGN20966882664536600521002262LQDA000100000513.SZRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Livzon Pharmaceutical is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+50%+100%+150%+200%0%100%200%0007393320ACADOGN688266LQDA2696000513.SZGrowth delivered (Del g) →Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs) →
Above the diagonal = the price needs more growth than the company has been delivering; below = the price already allows for a slowdown. Livzon Pharmaceutical is the large dot.

Livzon Pharmaceutical competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (000513.SZ vs 002294.SZ vs 600079.SS vs 000963.SZ)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Livzon Pharmaceutical 000513.SZ$3.71B-4%-14%19%16.9×-9.8%
Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals 002294.SZ$5.18B-39%+14%11%41.6×15.5%
Humanwell Healthcare (Group) 600079.SS$4.71B+3%-3%16%13.4×-6.8%
Huadong Medicine 000963.SZ$7.29B-17%+2%9%14.0×-2.7%
Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (Group) 600196.SS$8.70B-5%+8%6%17.0×4.1%
Cspc Pharma 1093.HK$12.4B+5%+25%28%9.3×-10.3%
Hualan Biological Engineering 002007.SZ$3.37B-15%-11%17%25.5×16.7%

How Livzon Pharmaceutical compares with its peers

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size. This is the same default set the interactive Competitor Analysis opens with.

Livzon Pharmaceutical against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure000513.SZPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+5.9%+5.2%10th highest of 21
6-month return-4.0%+2.0%10th lowest of 20
Distance from 52-week high-17.2%-26.6%7th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)-13.7%+6.7%3rd lowest of 19
Operating margin19.2%15.7%6th highest of 17
Forward P/E16.9×21.5×6th cheapest of 16
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-9.8%1.1%2nd least demanding of 15
Growth delivered (Del g)+2.7%+9.2%3rd lowest of 15
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-12.5 pp-11.2 pp7th least demanding of 15
ROIC minus cost of capital+10.1 pp+6.0 pp6th highest of 17

Peer table

Peer set: Industry: the same industry and sector in any market, nearest in size
CompanyMarketMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq gDelivered g
Livzon Pharmaceutical 000513.SZChina$3.71B-4%-14%19%16.9×-9.8%+2.7%
Amylyx Pharmaceuticals AMLXUnited States$3.70B+97%+100%n/an/an/an/a
Apeloa Pharmaceutical 000739.SZChina$3.73B+18%-16%10%25.1×6.3%+4.5%
China Resources Pharmaceutical 3320.HKHong Kong$3.74B-11%+8%4%6.0×-5.3%+7.8%
ACADIA Pharmaceuticals ACADUnited States$3.66B-5%+12%8%21.5×16.7%+19.4%
Organon & OGNUnited States$3.64B+4%-3%20%4.0×-4.5%-1.0%
Simcere Pharmaceutical 2096.HKHong Kong$3.63B-7%+27%18%14.3×-2.8%+10.6%
Xenon Pharmaceuticals XENEUnited States$3.79B+4%-100%n/an/an/an/a
Suzhou Zelgen Biopharmaceuticals 688266.SSChina$3.60B-13%+136%29%43.4×20.5%+98.4%
Santen Pharmaceutical 4536.TJapan$3.86B+17%-1%16%15.6×-5.2%+3.2%
Zhejiang Huahai Pharmaceutical 600521.SSChina$3.86B+8%+10%12%22.1×7.3%+5.9%
Laboratorios Farmaceuticos Rovi ROVI.MCSpain$3.89B+15%+3%20%22.3×1.5%+12.1%
Parabilis Medicines PBLSUnited States$3.52Bn/an/an/an/an/an/a
Jiangsu Nhwa Pharmaceutical 002262.SZChina$3.47B+2%+3%19%19.6×-2.2%+12.0%
Liquidia LQDAUnited States$3.97B+5%+2,234%37%32.9×0.7%+192.5%
Siegfried SFZN.SWSwitzerland$3.98B-10%+4%16%17.8×n/an/a
Viking Therapeutics VKTXUnited States$3.42B-17%n/an/an/an/an/a
Shanghai Henlius Biotech 2696.HKHong Kong$3.41B-37%+33%12%23.8×15.2%+61.4%
Yuhan 000100.KSSouth Korea$4.05B-12%+5%5%38.6×20.2%+6.2%
HUBEI JUMPCAN PHARMACEUTICAL 600566.SSChina$4.05B+6%-4%32%14.9×-11.5%+0.3%
Shanghai Junshi Biosciences 688180.SSChina$4.06B-24%+29%-15%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Livzon Pharmaceutical's main competitors?
Named competitors: Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals (002294.SZ), Humanwell Healthcare (600079.SS), Huadong Medicine (000963.SZ), Shanghai Fosun Pharmaceutical (600196.SS), CSPC Pharmaceutical (1093.HK), Hualan Biological Engineering (002007.SZ). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Amylyx Pharmaceuticals (AMLX), Apeloa Pharmaceutical (000739.SZ), China Resources Pharmaceutical (3320.HK), ACADIA Pharmaceuticals (ACAD), Organon & (OGN), Simcere Pharmaceutical (2096.HK).
Is Livzon Pharmaceutical expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 16.9× against a peer median of 21.5×, 6th cheapest of 16 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -10% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +3%, so the hurdle is -13 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Livzon Pharmaceutical stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned -4.0% against +2.0% for the median peer; over one year -15.8%.

How these numbers are made. Returns are close-to-close in local currency. Revenue growth and margins are trailing twelve months. Req g is the revenue growth that today's enterprise value requires for seven years at the company's own cost of capital; Delivered g is what it actually grew; the gap is the hurdle (honest precision about ±8 points, so read the ranking more than the decimal). No fair values, price targets or analyst ratings are shown, by design. Method and validation.