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IndegeneINDGN.NSCompetitor analysis, valuation and peers

India · INR·Pharma & Healthcare›Pharmaceuticals: Major

Provides technology, data and commercial services to help life-sciences and pharma companies market and launch drugs.

≈ A life-sciences-focused digital/commercial services firmMomentum leader 81
Mkt cap
$1.56B
US dollars, full cap
Free float
38%
of shares outstanding
$/day
$3.03M
20-day average traded
Fwd P/E
27.5×
forward earnings
ROIC−WACC
+1.2 pp
WACC 15.8%
Hurdle
+0 pp
Req g minus delivered
Next earnings
84 days
29 Jan 2027
Close · INR₹609.75
1D-0.6%
1W+3.9%
1M+0.4%
3M+10.8%
6M+14.7%
YTD+17.2%
1Y+10.4%
ATR %3.3%
Beta0.73
52w lowhigh4.4% off high

What Indegene does

Provides technology, data and commercial services to help life-sciences and pharma companies market and launch drugs.

Charges fees to drugmakers for work done by its own staff and platforms, from content creation and sales-and-marketing operations to regulatory documentation, usually under multi-year contracts. The US is its largest market. It listed on the Indian stock market in 2024.

In one line: A life-sciences-focused digital/commercial services firm.

Products and services

  • Commercial/marketing services
  • Medical affairs/content services
  • Enterprise technology platforms

Customers

  • Global pharma/biotech companies

Where it sits in the supply chain

  • Pharma commercial operations…
  • Data/AI-driven marketing tech
  • Regulatory/medical content services

What could go right

  • Pharma outsourcing of commercial ops
  • AI-driven content demand

What could go wrong

  • Client (pharma) R&D budget cuts
  • Competition from large consultancies

Moat: narrow (process know-how, switching costs). Deep life-sciences domain expertise and embedded workflows create switching costs versus generic IT vendors.

Headquarters: Bengaluru, India · Founded: 1998 · Employees: 5,175

Named competitors

Indegene at a glance

Size Indegene (INDGN.NS) is an India Health Care company (Pharmaceuticals: Major) with a market value of $1.56B, the 457th largest of 1,058 India companies the cockpit tracks. Shares closed at ₹609.75 on 6 Nov 2026.

Performance Over six months the shares gained 14.7%, against -4.0% for the median peer and 0.0% for the India market (cap-weighted) — 7th highest of 21 in its peer set.

Growth Revenue grew 35.8% over the last twelve months (peer median +4.9%); the operating margin is 12.4% (peer median 9.1%).

Valuation It trades at 27.5× forward earnings against a peer median of 21.4× (6th most expensive of 13).

Price implies For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 30% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +29%, so the hurdle is +0 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 1.2 points above its cost of capital (15.8% WACC).

Next results Next results expected around 29 Jan 2027 (exchange calendar; dates can move).

Relative performance

9010011011 May 202611 Aug 20266 Nov 2026INDGN.NS 115Peer median 96
Six months, rebased to 100: Indegene against the median of its 20 peers (local-currency closes).

Indegene financials

Reported figures in INR; fiscal year ends 2026-03-31. TTM = trailing twelve months.
TTMFY2025FY2024FY2023FY2022
Revenue₹41.3B₹35.1B₹28.4B₹25.9B₹23.1B
Revenue growth—+24%+10%+12%—
Gross profit₹5.11B₹8.79B₹7.72B₹6.94B₹5.81B
EBITDA₹6.83B₹6.27B₹5.38B₹5.14B₹3.99B
Net income₹4.11B₹4.01B₹4.07B₹3.37B₹2.66B
Free cash flown/a₹6.19B₹4.61B₹4.92B₹1.00B
Capital expendituren/a₹443M₹300M₹107M₹188M
Total debt₹1.57B₹1.44B₹1.02B₹4.90B₹5.03B

Quarterly statements and history in the cockpit →

Indegene 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

-50%0%+50%-20%0%+20%600572300006NANOCORONA002626JUBLPHARMA141080301263RARE603235ETON600993002020298380DMRA1681MARKSANSPCRXGPCR600420INDGN.NS6-month return →1-month return →
Up and to the right = strong over both horizons. Indegene is the large dot.

Fundamentals: revenue growth against valuation

0%+25%+50%+75%20×40×60×600572CORONA002626JUBLPHARMA301263ETON6009930020201681MARKSANS600420INDGN.NSRevenue growth (TTM) →Forward P/E →
Further right = faster growth; higher = more expensive. The dashed lines are the peer medians. Indegene is the large dot.

Capital: growth delivered against growth the price implies

0%+100%+200%+300%0%200%600572300006603235ETONMARKSANSPCRXINDGN.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. Indegene is the large dot.

Indegene competitors and peer comparison

Head to head with its named competitors (INDGN.NS vs IQV vs ACN)
CompanyMarket cap6M returnRevenue growthOp. marginForward P/EReq g
Indegene INDGN.NS$1.56B+15%+36%12%27.5×29.6%
Iqvia IQV$44.8B+52%+9%14%19.7×17.3%
Accenture ACN$154B+44%+6%15%17.8×3.7%

How Indegene 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.

Indegene against its 20 peers (data as of 6 Nov 2026)
MeasureINDGN.NSPeer medianRank in peer set
1-month return+0.4%+4.0%10th lowest of 21
6-month return+14.7%-4.0%7th highest of 21
Distance from 52-week high-4.4%-19.8%3rd highest of 21
Revenue growth (TTM)+35.8%+4.9%2nd highest of 19
Operating margin12.4%9.1%8th highest of 19
Forward P/E27.5×21.4×6th most expensive of 13
Growth the price implies (Req g, 7 yrs)29.6%-4.1%5th most demanding of 12
Growth delivered (Del g)+29.4%+6.8%2nd highest of 12
Hurdle (Req g minus delivered)+0.2 pp-4.3 pp5th most demanding of 12
ROIC minus cost of capital+1.2 pp-0.1 pp9th highest of 19
EV / EBITDA19.9×15.5×3rd most expensive of 7
Net debt / EBITDA-1.6×0.1×2nd least indebted of 7

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
Indegene INDGN.NSIndia$1.56B+15%+36%12%27.5×29.6%+29.4%
Zhejiang CONBA Pharmaceutical 600572.SSChina$1.56B-5%+4%9%18.5×-5.8%+1.9%
Chongqing Lummy Pharmaceutical 300006.SZChina$1.55B+53%-6%-19%n/a49.9%-13.2%
Nanobiotix NANO.PAFrance$1.54B-42%-77%-392%n/an/an/a
Corona Remedies CORONA.NSIndia$1.58B+40%+17%18%63.7×37.6%+16.6%
Xiamen Kingdomway 002626.SZChina$1.58B+15%-3%11%30.0×n/an/a
Jubilant Pharmova JUBLPHARMA.NSIndia$1.58B-4%+16%9%29.0×n/an/a
LigaChem Biosciences 141080.KSSouth Korea$1.59B-68%-33%-208%n/an/an/a
Guangdong Taienkang Pharmaceutical 301263.SZChina$1.53B-17%+2%-2%42.9×n/an/a
Ultragenyx Pharmaceutical RAREUnited States$1.52B+22%+16%-64%n/an/an/a
JiangXi Tianxin Pharmaceutical 603235.SSChina$1.60B-5%+16%24%n/a-4.1%+0.2%
Eton Pharmaceuticals ETONUnited States$1.61B+236%+81%16%27.9×39.6%+359.6%
Mayinglong Pharmaceutical 600993.SSChina$1.62B-4%+7%17%16.2×-4.5%+6.8%
Zhejiang Jingxin Pharmaceutical 002020.SZChina$1.49B-17%+1%19%13.0×-8.5%+4.6%
ABL Bio 298380.KSSouth Korea$1.49B-73%-64%-251%n/an/an/a
Damora Therapeutics DMRAUnited States$1.46B-2%n/an/an/an/an/a
Consun Pharmaceutical 1681.HKHong Kong$1.65B+5%+15%35%9.2×-15.1%+13.5%
Marksans Pharma MARKSANS.NSIndia$1.45B+50%+24%20%24.2×31.6%+16.6%
Pacira Biosciences PCRXUnited States$1.45B+57%+6%4%11.8×14.9%+11.1%
Structure Therapeutics, Inc. Sponsored ADR GPCRUnited States$1.45B-48%n/an/an/an/an/a
Shanghai Shyndec Pharmaceutical 600420.SSChina$1.67B-14%-13%6%13.2×-6.0%-5.6%

Questions

Who are Indegene's main competitors?
Named competitors: IQVIA (IQV), Accenture Life Sciences (ACN), ZS Associates (private or unlisted). The cockpit's measured peer set (industry) also includes Zhejiang CONBA Pharmaceutical (600572.SS), Chongqing Lummy Pharmaceutical (300006.SZ), Nanobiotix (NANO.PA), Corona Remedies (CORONA.NS), Xiamen Kingdomway (002626.SZ), Jubilant Pharmova (JUBLPHARMA.NS).
Is Indegene expensive compared with its peers?
On forward p/e it trades at 27.5× against a peer median of 21.4×, 6th most expensive of 13 in its peer set. For today's price to make sense, revenue must grow about 30% a year for seven years (Req g). Recent delivered growth is +29%, so the hurdle is +0 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 Indegene stock performed?
Over six months to 6 Nov 2026 the shares returned +14.7% against -4.0% for the median peer; over one year +10.4%.

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.