Pharmaceuticals industry

225 companies · ₹28.4 L cr · 77 with AI deep dives · Q1FY27 report

India above-IPM growth holds sector-wide; US patent cliffs and geopolitical costs pull margins 270bps off peak

Mid cyclemargin range-bound near 22.7%
Revenue YoY
+16.1%
EBITDA margin
22.7%
-120bps YoY
Price, 1 year
+15.0%
64% of names up
P/E vs own 5y
+40.5%
40.9x now

Exhibit 1The quarter in numbers

constant panel of 91 companies above ₹500 cr
aggregate revenue (₹ cr)EBITDA margin (right axis)
Revenue
Jun 26
1.26 L cr
Mar 26
1.23 L cr
QoQ
+2.9%
Jun 25
1.09 L cr
YoY
+16.1%
Peak
1.26 L cr
vs peak
0.0%
EBITDA margin
Jun 26
22.7%
Mar 26
23.7%
QoQ
-100bps
Jun 25
23.9%
YoY
-120bps
Peak
25.4%
vs peak
-270bps

Breadth: 88% of 97 companies grew revenue year on year (was 80% a quarter earlier) and 63% expanded margin (was 56%).

Exhibit 2What it costs

28.71x - 56x across the panel today

The median name trades at 40.9x, +40.5% against this industry's own 5-year median of 29.1x, and +2.8% against its own peak of 39.8x.

Exhibit 3Structure

₹28.4 L cr

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd is 16.3% of this industry by market cap. The top 5 are 39.7% and the top 10 are 57%.

large 15mid 30small 50micro 129108 above ₹500 cr

Exhibit 4Screen

P/E below the sub-industry median of 40.9x, 5y ROCE above its median of 12.52%, and at least 2 growth triggers stated on the latest earnings call.

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Exhibit 5Coverage (25 of 226)

Every company here with a deep dive, topped up by market cap. The rest of the industry is in the appendix.

Mcap
₹4.4 L cr
P/E
37.0x
EV/EBITDA
24.2x
ROCE
17.9%
Margin
31.2%
Rev YoY
+10.5%
Mcap
₹2.5 L cr
P/E
86.9x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
19.0%
Margin
35.0%
Rev YoY
+27.8%
Mcap
₹1.9 L cr
P/E
76.5x
EV/EBITDA
46.6x
ROCE
9.1%
Margin
32.0%
Rev YoY
+54.8%
Mcap
₹1.1 L cr
P/E
24.9x
EV/EBITDA
14.6x
ROCE
17.8%
Margin
28.4%
Rev YoY
+22.0%
Mcap
₹1.1 L cr
P/E
33.1x
EV/EBITDA
17.0x
ROCE
14.9%
Margin
22.3%
Rev YoY
+2.3%
Mcap
₹1.1 L cr
P/E
95.6x
EV/EBITDA
59.4x
ROCE
23.3%
Margin
26.7%
Rev YoY
+29.1%
Mcap
₹96,906 cr
P/E
29.6x
EV/EBITDA
13.2x
ROCE
13.9%
Margin
22.3%
Rev YoY
-5.5%
Mcap
₹96,402 cr
P/E
26.0x
EV/EBITDA
14.3x
ROCE
13.6%
Margin
21.3%
Rev YoY
+16.3%
Mcap
₹95,836 cr
P/E
17.1x
EV/EBITDA
11.7x
ROCE
28.4%
Margin
31.1%
Rev YoY
+32.0%
Mcap
₹94,039 cr
P/E
45.3x
EV/EBITDA
26.1x
ROCE
14.5%
Margin
26.7%
Rev YoY
+12.9%
Mcap
₹68,205 cr
P/E
45.6x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
16.2%
Margin
15.9%
Rev YoY
+23.1%
Mcap
₹63,713 cr
P/E
116.4x
EV/EBITDA
23.1x
ROCE
2.8%
Margin
19.7%
Rev YoY
+10.0%
Mcap
₹60,853 cr
P/E
28.3x
EV/EBITDA
18.3x
ROCE
18.8%
Margin
22.0%
Rev YoY
+10.9%
Mcap
₹54,334 cr
P/E
33.2x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
43.5%
Margin
31.0%
Rev YoY
+4.3%
Mcap
₹49,905 cr
P/E
38.1x
EV/EBITDA
24.5x
ROCE
18.7%
Margin
22.5%
Rev YoY
+20.8%
Mcap
₹48,333 cr
P/E
43.1x
EV/EBITDA
25.3x
ROCE
13.7%
Margin
28.5%
Rev YoY
+19.6%
Mcap
₹47,943 cr
P/E
45.1x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
55.4%
Margin
37.1%
Rev YoY
+16.5%
Mcap
₹44,190 cr
P/E
38.6x
EV/EBITDA
28.3x
ROCE
31.8%
Margin
27.9%
Rev YoY
+24.8%
Mcap
₹38,731 cr
P/E
54.6x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
21.9%
Margin
27.1%
Rev YoY
-4.8%
Mcap
₹37,495 cr
P/E
36.9x
EV/EBITDA
21.0x
ROCE
27.0%
Margin
20.0%
Rev YoY
+22.8%
Mcap
₹35,362 cr
P/E
88.2x
EV/EBITDA
55.3x
ROCE
9.7%
Margin
24.6%
Rev YoY
+25.9%
Mcap
₹33,648 cr
P/E
93.2x
EV/EBITDA
50.2x
ROCE
18.6%
Margin
30.2%
Rev YoY
+11.7%
Mcap
₹30,513 cr
P/E
103.0x
EV/EBITDA
75.4x
ROCE
27.7%
Margin
23.2%
Rev YoY
-
Mcap
₹30,060 cr
P/E
61.4x
EV/EBITDA
50.0x
ROCE
31.3%
Margin
33.0%
Rev YoY
+119.1%
Mcap
₹28,211 cr
P/E
-
EV/EBITDA
35.9x
ROCE
0.8%
Margin
10.3%
Rev YoY
+17.4%

Exhibit 6What managements said

from this industry's latest earnings calls · as of 2026-06-30
tailwindIndia branded formulations outperforming IPM across both chronic and acute segments8 managements

India formulations growth of 13-19% was broad-based at all eight companies reporting India data this quarter. Sun Pharma's 5.4% volume growth compared to IPM's 2%; Torrent…

  • SUNPHARMA (Q1FY27): “Sales of India formulations were INR54,749 million for the quarter, recording a growth of…
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AppendixThe other 201 companies

1-30
sort: mcap · composite · name
Mcap
₹27,609 cr
P/E
73.2x
EV/EBITDA
52.9x
ROCE
27.7%
Margin
38.3%
Rev YoY
+59.1%
Mcap
₹22,541 cr
P/E
33.4x
EV/EBITDA
20.0x
ROCE
16.0%
Margin
23.1%
Rev YoY
+22.0%
Mcap
₹20,920 cr
P/E
31.7x
EV/EBITDA
23.9x
ROCE
23.1%
Margin
38.1%
Rev YoY
+19.6%
Mcap
₹18,835 cr
P/E
62.1x
EV/EBITDA
41.1x
ROCE
13.7%
Margin
30.6%
Rev YoY
+44.9%
Mcap
₹18,777 cr
P/E
29.1x
EV/EBITDA
19.0x
ROCE
15.7%
Margin
35.4%
Rev YoY
+13.0%
Mcap
₹18,574 cr
P/E
25.5x
EV/EBITDA
17.8x
ROCE
22.9%
Margin
38.7%
Rev YoY
+8.3%
Mcap
₹18,225 cr
P/E
-
EV/EBITDA
63.0x
ROCE
0.4%
Margin
21.5%
Rev YoY
+37.2%
Mcap
₹16,975 cr
P/E
28.4x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
21.8%
Margin
31.9%
Rev YoY
+6.4%
Mcap
₹16,942 cr
P/E
101.0x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
23.2%
Margin
12.4%
Rev YoY
+29.7%
Mcap
₹16,892 cr
P/E
159.7x
EV/EBITDA
39.5x
ROCE
4.8%
Margin
18.7%
Rev YoY
-23.1%
Mcap
₹16,337 cr
P/E
46.4x
EV/EBITDA
15.4x
ROCE
5.9%
Margin
14.2%
Rev YoY
+17.3%
Mcap
₹15,931 cr
P/E
23.2x
EV/EBITDA
15.6x
ROCE
12.8%
Margin
14.8%
Rev YoY
+25.7%
Mcap
₹15,797 cr
P/E
55.0x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
17.5%
Margin
37.6%
Rev YoY
+26.2%
Mcap
₹14,909 cr
P/E
29.0x
EV/EBITDA
21.9x
ROCE
17.5%
Margin
24.9%
Rev YoY
+35.6%
Mcap
₹14,669 cr
P/E
12.8x
EV/EBITDA
8.9x
ROCE
16.3%
Margin
35.6%
Rev YoY
-44.7%
Mcap
₹13,679 cr
P/E
74.9x
EV/EBITDA
55.2x
ROCE
24.2%
Margin
37.2%
Rev YoY
-
Mcap
₹13,642 cr
P/E
67.9x
EV/EBITDA
48.3x
ROCE
31.7%
Margin
20.2%
Rev YoY
-
Mcap
₹12,217 cr
P/E
40.7x
EV/EBITDA
19.5x
ROCE
12.0%
Margin
14.1%
Rev YoY
+13.9%
Mcap
₹11,228 cr
P/E
62.6x
EV/EBITDA
17.9x
ROCE
10.7%
Margin
18.5%
Rev YoY
+114.4%
Mcap
₹10,930 cr
P/E
18.2x
EV/EBITDA
12.0x
ROCE
21.0%
Margin
21.9%
Rev YoY
+13.0%
Mcap
₹10,781 cr
P/E
42.5x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
24.0%
Margin
35.7%
Rev YoY
-17.4%
Mcap
₹9,314 cr
P/E
35.6x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
77.0%
Margin
37.2%
Rev YoY
+6.7%
Mcap
₹8,972 cr
P/E
25.2x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
83.7%
Margin
35.5%
Rev YoY
+7.4%
Mcap
₹7,678 cr
P/E
54.6x
EV/EBITDA
32.7x
ROCE
16.6%
Margin
22.9%
Rev YoY
+37.6%
Mcap
₹7,498 cr
P/E
35.2x
EV/EBITDA
21.8x
ROCE
10.7%
Margin
20.6%
Rev YoY
+38.7%
Mcap
₹7,243 cr
P/E
37.3x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
22.4%
Margin
36.4%
Rev YoY
+30.7%
Mcap
₹7,093 cr
P/E
34.2x
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
48.5%
Margin
23.1%
Rev YoY
+7.7%
Mcap
₹6,923 cr
P/E
-
EV/EBITDA
-
ROCE
-
Margin
-
Rev YoY
-
Mcap
₹6,782 cr
P/E
51.2x
EV/EBITDA
33.0x
ROCE
16.9%
Margin
31.7%
Rev YoY
+30.6%
Mcap
₹6,599 cr
P/E
42.9x
EV/EBITDA
27.7x
ROCE
15.3%
Margin
15.3%
Rev YoY
+34.0%

171 more companies

This industry has 201 constituents beyond the covered names. The first page is free; premium opens the rest.

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