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Apotex Health Corp.APTX.TOCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

Canada · CAD·Health Care›Pharmaceuticals: Major

Toronto-based generic, biosimilar and consumer-health pharmaceutical maker, the largest Canadian-headquartered pharma company, recently listed on the TSX.

≈ Canada's Teva/Viatris
Mkt cap
$5.62B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
41%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$6.71M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
18.6×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+21.3 pp
WACC 5.0%
Hurdle
-18 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
26 days
2 Dec 2026
Close · CADC$34.48
1D+2.3%
1W+3.2%
1M+6.2%
3M-7.8%
6Mn/a
YTDn/a
1Yn/a
ATR %2.7%
52w lowhigh14.2% off high

What Apotex Health does

Toronto-based generic, biosimilar and consumer-health pharmaceutical maker, the largest Canadian-headquartered pharma company, recently listed on the TSX.

In one line: Canada's Teva/Viatris.

Products and services

  • Generic prescription drugs
  • Biosimilars
  • Consumer health/OTC products
  • Active pharmaceutical ingredients

Customers

  • Pharmacy chains/distributors (Canada, US, internat
  • Hospitals
  • Health systems

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Pharmaceuticals
  • Generic and biosimilar drug…
  • Branded + consumer health products

What could go right

  • Biosimilar patent-expiry launches
  • Post-IPO capital funding growth investments

What could go wrong

  • Generic drug price erosion
  • Regulatory/manufacturing compliance risk

Moat: narrow (scale, regulatory licence). Largest Canadian pharma manufacturing scale and a broad portfolio of regulatory-approved generic/biosimilar filings.

Headquarters: Toronto, Canada · Founded: 1974 · Employees: 6,216

Named competitors

Apotex Health at a glance

Size Apotex Health (APTX.TO) is a Canada Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Major) with a market value of $5.62B, the 111th largest of 420 Canada companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at C$34.48 on 6 Nov 2026.

Growth Revenue grew 4.2% over the last twelve months (peer median +10.6%); the operating margin is 32.0% (peer median 14.4%).

Valuation It trades at 18.6× forward earnings against a peer median of 29.7× (5th cheapest of 16).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -14% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +4%, so the hurdle is -18 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 21.3 points above its cost of capital (5.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 2 Dec 2026 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Apotex Health financials

Reported figures in CAD; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023
Revenuen/aC$3.49BC$3.35BC$2.94B
Revenue growth—+4%+14%—
Gross profitn/aC$1.83BC$1.70BC$1.05B
EBITDAn/aC$1.27BC$1.13BC$563M
Net incomen/aC$374MC$152M-C$147M
Free cash flown/aC$520MC$461MC$475M
Capital expendituren/aC$182MC$244MC$112M
Total debtC$3.02BC$3.52BC$2.65BC$1.87B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Apotex Health 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.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

-40%-20%0%+20%+40%20×40×60×GLANDPTCTSUPN688578ABBOTINDIA6000854506IPCALAB002294LGND326030BIOCON603087000999APTX.TORevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Apotex Health is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+200%+400%0%200%400%GLANDPTCTSUPN688578LGND326030APTX.TOGrowth 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. Apotex Health is the large dot.

Apotex Health competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (APTX.TO vs TEVA vs VTRS vs SDZ.SW)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Apotex Health APTX.TO$5.62Bn/a+4%32%18.6×-13.5%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Sponsored ADR TEVA$49.7B+19%-4%19%15.1×10.2%
Viatris VTRS$22.9B+17%+5%10%7.5×12.5%
Sandoz SDZ.SW$44.4B+24%+1%15%25.3×7.9%

How Apotex Health 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.

Apotex Health against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureAPTX.TOPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+6.2%+1.3%6th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-14.2%-27.9%7th highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+4.2%+10.6%6th lowest of 17
Operating margin32.0%14.4%4th highest of 18
Forward P/E18.6×29.7×5th cheapest of 16
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)-13.5%6.1%least demanding of 13
Growth delivered (Del g)+4.2%+12.8%2nd lowest of 13
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)-17.8 pp-1.0 pp5th least demanding of 13
ROIC minus cost of capital+21.3 pp+1.3 pp2nd highest of 18
EV / EBITDA8.4×21.8×cheapest of 10
Net debt / EBITDA2.2×0.1×4th most indebted of 11

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
Apotex Health APTX.TOCanada$5.62Bn/a+4%32%18.6×-13.5%+4.2%
Gland Pharma GLAND.NSIndia$5.53B+69%+18%20%39.0×28.0%+13.3%
PTC Therapeutics PTCTUnited States$5.47B-11%-35%22%34.8×8.0%+35.4%
Veradermics MANEUnited States$5.80B+31%n/an/an/an/an/a
Supernus Pharmaceuticals SUPNUnited States$5.43B-49%+16%45%6.7×4.2%+13.9%
Shanghai Allist Pharmaceuticals 688578.SSChina$5.90B-6%+39%47%13.8×1.8%+519.6%
Abbott India ABBOTINDIA.NSIndia$5.93B-1%+6%28%32.4×11.4%+10.0%
Beijing TongRenTang 600085.SSChina$5.27B-8%-17%8%31.2×2.7%+6.2%
Sumitomo Pharma 4506.TJapan$5.23B+7%+11%10%8.3×1.4%-2.6%
IPCA Laboratories IPCALAB.NSIndia$5.22B+24%+11%17%32.4×17.8%+12.2%
Shenzhen Salubris Pharmaceuticals 002294.SZChina$5.18B-39%+14%11%41.6×15.5%+9.7%
Mirum Pharmaceuticals MIRMUnited States$6.12B-13%+42%-21%n/an/an/a
Ligand Pharmaceuticals LGNDUnited States$6.12B+38%+1%14%28.0×57.8%+7.5%
SKBP 326030.KSSouth Korea$5.12B-11%+39%35%21.6×0.5%+93.6%
Belite Bio, Inc. ADR BLTEUnited States$6.20B0%n/an/an/an/an/a
Erasca ERASUnited States$5.04B+42%n/an/an/an/an/a
Biocon BIOCON.NSIndia$6.28B-4%+6%8%56.4×n/an/a
Samsung Epis 0126Z0.KSSouth Korea$6.39B-36%n/a-25%24.0×n/an/a
Gan & Lee Pharmaceuticals 603087.SSChina$6.40B+21%+14%20%29.7×n/an/a
China Resources Sanjiu Medical & Pharmaceutical 000999.SZChina$6.48B0%+4%14%12.8×-6.3%+18.4%
Ionis Pharmaceuticals IONSUnited States$6.55B-48%-7%-68%n/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Apotex Health's main competitors?
Named competitors: Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA), Viatris (VTRS), Sandoz Group (SDZ.SW). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Gland Pharma (GLAND.NS), PTC Therapeutics (PTCT), Veradermics (MANE), Supernus Pharmaceuticals (SUPN), Shanghai Allist Pharmaceuticals (688578.SS), Abbott India (ABBOTINDIA.NS).
Is Apotex Health expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 18.6× against a peer median of 29.7×, 5th cheapest of 16 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about -14% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +4%, so the hurdle is -18 pp: the price already allows for a slowdown.

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.