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India · INR·Pharma & Healthcare›Pharmaceuticals: Other

Hyderabad generic drugmaker and API producer, one of India's largest exporters of generic formulations to the US and Europe.

≈ A generics-only, API-integrated TevaMomentum leader 87
Mkt cap
$10.9B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
48%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$19.0M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
22.4×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
-1.9 pp
WACC 13.0%
Hurdle
+15 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
100 days
14 Feb 2027
Close · INR₹1,800
1D+0.8%
1W+7.0%
1M+7.0%
3M+13.3%
6M+21.7%
YTD+52.2%
1Y+63.3%
ATR %2.4%
Beta0.43
52w lowhigh0.3% off high

What Aurobindo Pharma does

Hyderabad generic drugmaker and API producer, one of India's largest exporters of generic formulations to the US and Europe.

Makes the active ingredient as well as the finished tablet, so it can sell ingredients to others and still capture the margin on its own generics. The US is the largest market. The founding Reddy family remains the main shareholder.

In one line: A generics-only, API-integrated Teva.

Products and services

  • US generics
  • APIs (captive + merchant)
  • Europe generics
  • Injectables
  • Biosimilars

Customers

  • US pharmacy/wholesale distributors
  • European generics buyers
  • Emerging-market health systems

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Pharmaceuticals
  • APIs
  • Generic formulations

What could go right

  • US generics volume growth
  • New biosimilar launches

What could go wrong

  • US price erosion
  • FDA plant-inspection risk

Moat: narrow (scale, cost advantage, regulatory licence). Vertically integrated API-to-formulation scale gives a cost edge in commodity generics.

Headquarters: Hyderabad, India · Founded: 1986 · Employees: 46,455

Named competitors

Aurobindo Pharma at a glance

Size Aurobindo Pharma (AUROPHARMA.NS) is an India Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Other) with a market value of $10.9B, the 112th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹1,800 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 21.7%, against -6.7% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 4th highest of 11 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 13.5% over the last twelve months (peer median +9.1%); the operating margin is 15.3% (peer median 22.4%).

Valuation It trades at 22.4× forward earnings against a peer median of 18.1× (3rd most expensive of 8).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 21% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +6%, so the hurdle is +15 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.

Capital Return on invested capital runs 1.9 points below its cost of capital (13.0% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 14 Feb 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011012011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026AUROPHARMA.NS 121Peer median 95
Six months, rebased to 100: Aurobindo Pharma against the median of its 10 peers (local-currency closes).

Aurobindo Pharma financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹369B₹334B₹314B₹287B₹246B
Revenue growth—+6%+9%+17%—
Gross profit₹146B₹106B₹93.8B₹81.4B₹69.0B
EBITDA₹76.1B₹74.7B₹64.5B₹57.1B₹38.2B
Net income₹39.9B₹35.0B₹34.9B₹31.7B₹19.3B
Free cash flown/a₹28.3B₹18.8B-₹11.0B₹184M
Capital expendituren/a₹31.0B₹25.2B₹35.6B₹27.2B
Total debt₹86.3B₹80.7B₹82.6B₹66.5B₹52.9B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Aurobindo Pharma competitor charts

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Performance: 6-month against 1-month return

-20%0%+20%+40%0%+10%+20%+30%CIPLA002001LUPINABVX000423002603002317BHC000623RVMDAUROPHARMA.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Aurobindo Pharma is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+20%0×25×50×75×CIPLA002001LUPIN000423002603002317BHCAUROPHARMA.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Aurobindo Pharma is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+20%0%20%CIPLA002001LUPIN000423002603002317BHC000623AUROPHARMA.NSGrowth 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. Aurobindo Pharma is the large dot.

Aurobindo Pharma competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (AUROPHARMA.NS vs SUNPHARMA.NS vs CIPLA.NS vs DRREDDY.NS)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Aurobindo Pharma AUROPHARMA.NS$10.9B+22%+14%15%22.4×21.0%
Sun Pharmaceutical Industries SUNPHARMA.NS$47.3B+1%+12%23%35.4×28.4%
Cipla CIPLA.NS$12.1B+4%-1%13%29.0×28.2%
Dr. Reddy's Laboratories DRREDDY.NS$12.1B+5%-4%9%31.8×30.1%
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Limited Sponsored ADR TEVA$49.7B+19%-4%19%15.1×10.2%
Sandoz SDZ.SW$44.4B+24%+1%15%25.3×7.9%

How Aurobindo Pharma 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.

Aurobindo Pharma against its 10 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureAUROPHARMA.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+7.0%+3.2%4th highest of 11
6-month return+21.7%-6.7%4th highest of 11
Distance from 52-week high-0.3%-21.8%highest of 11
Revenue growth (TTM)+13.5%+9.1%3rd highest of 9
Operating margin15.3%22.4%4th lowest of 9
Forward P/E22.4×18.1×3rd most expensive of 8
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)21.0%1.0%3rd most demanding of 9
Growth delivered (Del g)+6.3%+7.0%5th highest of 9
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+14.6 pp-2.6 pp3rd most demanding of 9
ROIC minus cost of capital-1.9 pp+9.1 pp3rd lowest of 9
EV / EBITDA13.4×10.2×2nd most expensive of 4
Net debt / EBITDA-0.2×-0.1×2nd least indebted of 4

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
Aurobindo Pharma AUROPHARMA.NSIndia$10.9B+22%+14%15%22.4×21.0%+6.3%
Cipla CIPLA.NSIndia$12.1B+4%-1%13%29.0×28.2%+8.1%
Zhejiang NHU 002001.SZChina$12.3B-23%+11%33%9.9×-7.8%+16.7%
Lupin LUPIN.NSIndia$9.65B-19%+24%24%20.9×8.8%+13.0%
Abivax ABVX.PAFrance$7.58B-25%n/an/an/an/an/a
Dong-E-E-Jiao 000423.SZChina$4.80B-8%+8%29%17.1×-4.6%+14.5%
Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical 002603.SZChina$4.02B-6%+32%21%18.1×-3.2%-2.2%
Guangdong Zhongsheng Pharmaceutical 002317.SZChina$3.13B+35%-14%9%80.3×34.7%+5.9%
Bausch Health Companies BHC.TOCanada$3.09B+48%+10%27%1.9×-14.5%+5.9%
Jilin Aodong Pharmaceutical 000623.SZChina$3.02B-9%-4%-13%n/a5.2%+1.0%
Revolution Medicines RVMDUnited States$41.2B+36%n/an/an/an/an/a

Questions

Who are Aurobindo Pharma's main competitors?
Named competitors: Sun Pharmaceutical (SUNPHARMA.NS), Cipla (CIPLA.NS), Dr. Reddy's Laboratories (DRREDDY.NS), Teva Pharmaceutical (TEVA), Sandoz Group (SDZ.SW). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Cipla (CIPLA.NS), Zhejiang NHU (002001.SZ), Lupin (LUPIN.NS), Abivax (ABVX.PA), Dong-E-E-Jiao (000423.SZ), Shijiazhuang Yiling Pharmaceutical (002603.SZ).
Is Aurobindo Pharma expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 22.4× against a peer median of 18.1×, 3rd most expensive of 8 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 21% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +6%, so the hurdle is +15 pp: the price needs faster growth than the company has been delivering — of companies that just grew 25–50% a year, 93.8% slowed down over the next four years.
How has Aurobindo Pharma stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +21.7% against -6.7% for the median peer; over one year +63.3%.

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.