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Wuxi Bio2269.HKCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Hong Kong · HKD·Health Care›Biotechnology

Leading global biologics CDMO, providing development and manufacturing services for biologic drugs including antibodies and vaccines.

≈ A Chinese Samsung Biologics/Catalent for biologics manufacturingMomentum leader 89
Mkt cap
$25.0B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
92%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$262M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
28.7×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-0.2 pp
WACC 12.4%
Hurdle
-8 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
137 days
23 Mar 2027
Close · HKDHK$47.62
1D-2.2%
1W+7.1%
1M-16.0%
3M+3.8%
6M+43.1%
YTD+51.5%
1Y+29.5%
ATR %6.1%
52w lowhigh17.9% off high

What Wuxi Bio does

Leading global biologics CDMO, providing development and manufacturing services for biologic drugs including antibodies and vaccines.

Is paid for project work at the development stage, then for manufacturing batches if the drug advances, so it wins customers early and keeps them through to commercial production. Revenue therefore follows clients' pipelines rather than any one drug. It is a sister company of WuXi AppTec, which was founded by the same team.

In one line: A Chinese Samsung Biologics/Catalent for biologics manufacturing.

Products and services

  • Biologics process development
  • Commercial-scale biomanufacturing
  • Cell & gene therapy CDMO

Customers

  • Global biopharma companies

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Health care
  • Contract biologics manufacturing (CDMO)
  • Biologic drug development…

What could go right

  • Global biologics outsourcing growth

What could go wrong

  • US-China biosecurity/tariff scrutiny of CDMO
  • Customer concentration in a few large biopharma clients

Moat: narrow (scale, process know-how, customer qualification). Large global bioreactor capacity and regulatory-approved facilities make switching mid-program costly for clients.

Headquarters: Shanghai, China · Founded: 2014 · Employees: 13,252

Named competitors

Wuxi Bio at a glance

Size Wuxi Bio (2269.HK) is a Hong Kong Health Care company (Biotechnology) with a market value of $25.0B, the 67th largest of 891 Hong Kong companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at HK$47.62 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 43.1%, against +10.4% for the median peer and -13.4% for the Hong Kong market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 21.9% over the last twelve months (peer median +19.8%); the operating margin is 32.4% (peer median 24.6%).

Valuation It trades at 28.7× forward earnings against a peer median of 28.0× (8th cheapest of 15).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 22% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +30%, so the hurdle is -8 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 0.2 points below its cost of capital (12.4% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 23 Mar 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

10015011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 20262269.HK 146Peer median 114
Six months, rebased to 100: Wuxi Bio against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Wuxi Bio financials

Reported figures in HKD; fiscal year ends 2025-12-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
RevenueHK$26.4BHK$23.6BHK$20.2BHK$18.8BHK$17.8B
Revenue growth—+17%+8%+6%—
Gross profitHK$12.5BHK$10.9BHK$8.30BHK$7.54BHK$7.82B
EBITDAHK$10.6BHK$9.10BHK$6.77BHK$5.88BHK$6.27B
Net incomeHK$5.59BHK$5.32BHK$3.64BHK$3.76BHK$5.14B
Free cash flowHK$4.97BHK$3.12BHK$1.65BHK$495M-HK$365M
Capital expenditureHK$5.28BHK$4.05BHK$4.17BHK$4.69BHK$6.82B
Total debtn/aHK$3.46BHK$5.26BHK$5.02BHK$4.97B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Wuxi Bio competitor charts

The default views of Competitor Analysis ▸ Charts, drawn from the same data. Open them in the cockpit to change the axes, pin companies and read every value.

Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

0%+20%+40%+60%-20%0%+20%UTHRBNTXGMAB068270NBIXBBIONTRAIQVSMMT1093HALO207940TECHLONNKYMRARGXBMRN0024221961702269.HK6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Wuxi Bio is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-20%0%+20%+40%+60%20×40×UTHRGMAB068270NBIXIQVELAN1093HALO207940TECHLONNBMRN0024221961702269.HKRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Wuxi Bio is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+50%+100%+150%0%50%100%150%UTHRBNTXGMABNBIXELAN1093HALOTECHARGX0024221961702269.HKGrowth 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. Wuxi Bio is the large dot.

Wuxi Bio competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (2269.HK vs 207940.KS vs LONN.SW vs 4901.T)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Wuxi Bio 2269.HK$25.0B+43%+22%32%28.7×21.8%
Samsung Biologics 207940.KS$53.7B+3%-20%43%38.7×9.6%
Lonza LONN.SW$55.4B+39%-11%25%36.1×15.0%
Fujifilm 4901.T$24.9B+14%+7%10%14.1×n/a
Thermo Fisher Scientific TMO$257B+50%+8%19%25.8×20.9%
Agc 5201.T$6.33B-15%+6%6%12.6×4.8%

How Wuxi Bio 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.

Wuxi Bio against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
Measure2269.HKPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return-16.0%+9.4%3rd lowest of 21
6-month return+43.1%+10.4%7th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-17.9%-14.1%10th lowest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+21.9%+19.8%10th highest of 20
Operating margin32.4%24.6%6th highest of 20
Forward P/E28.7×28.0×8th cheapest of 15
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)21.8%9.0%4th most demanding of 17
Growth delivered (Del g)+30.2%+17.1%6th highest of 17
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-8.4 pp-9.0 pp8th most demanding of 17
ROIC minus cost of capital-0.2 pp+2.1 pp8th lowest of 20
EV / EBITDA18.1×16.3×5th most expensive of 12
Net debt / EBITDA-1.1×1.7×4th least indebted of 12

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
Wuxi Bio 2269.HKHong Kong$25.0B+43%+22%32%28.7×21.8%+30.2%
United Therapeutics UTHRUnited States$24.1B-1%+2%44%22.0×-0.4%+16.5%
BioNTech SE Sponsored ADR BNTXUnited States$22.8B-7%-1%-38%n/a5.7%+42.6%
Genmab A/S GMAB.CODenmark$32.1B+115%+14%32%44.8×11.6%+19.5%
Celltrion 068270.KSSouth Korea$34.3B+10%+40%32%34.1×8.3%+17.6%
Neurocrine Biosciences NBIXUnited States$16.7B+8%+38%25%18.2×-1.7%+22.3%
BridgeBio Pharma BBIOUnited States$14.5B+10%+167%-37%n/an/an/a
Natera NTRAUnited States$44.8B+60%+38%-11%n/an/an/a
Iqvia IQVUnited States$44.8B+52%+9%14%19.7×17.3%+7.5%
Summit Therapeutics SMMTUnited States$13.1B-10%n/an/an/an/an/a
Elanco Animal Health ELANUnited States$12.9B+9%+12%7%21.8×34.8%+7.6%
Cspc Pharma 1093.HKHong Kong$12.4B+5%+25%28%9.3×-10.3%+0.1%
Halozyme Therapeutics HALOUnited States$11.8B+62%+41%57%10.7×2.5%+39.2%
Samsung Biologics 207940.KSSouth Korea$53.7B+3%-20%43%38.7×9.6%+31.4%
Bio-Techne TECHUnited States$11.4B+51%0%22%35.9×31.3%+5.5%
Lonza LONN.SWSwitzerland$55.4B+39%-11%25%36.1×15.0%+7.7%
Kymera Therapeutics KYMRUnited States$11.2B+53%+134%-396%n/an/an/a
argenx SE Sponsored ADR ARGXUnited States$57.5B+19%+71%29%n/a10.9%+151.4%
BioMarin Pharmaceutical BMRNUnited States$10.9B+4%+20%19%10.3×6.5%+12.0%
Sichuan Kelun Pharmaceutical 002422.SZChina$10.8B+30%0%9%37.3×7.2%+2.3%
ALTEOGEN 196170.KSSouth Korea$10.3B-46%+61%53%47.0×29.8%+38.5%

Questions

Who are Wuxi Bio's main competitors?
Named competitors: Samsung Biologics (207940.KS), Lonza (LONN.SW), Catalent (private or unlisted), Fujifilm Holdings (4901.T), Thermo Fisher Scientific (TMO), AGC Inc (5201.T). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes United Therapeutics (UTHR), BioNTech SE Sponsored ADR (BNTX), Genmab A/S (GMAB.CO), Celltrion (068270.KS), Neurocrine Biosciences (NBIX), BridgeBio Pharma (BBIO).
Is Wuxi Bio expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 28.7× against a peer median of 28.0×, 8th cheapest of 15 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 22% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +30%, so the hurdle is -8 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.
How has Wuxi Bio stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +43.1% against +10.4% for the median peer; over one year +29.5%.

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.