Healthcare
Monthly
Performance of top companies in Feb’24
Company
MAT
growth
(%)
Feb’24
(%)
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Industry growth at high single digit for 2
nd
straight month
The India pharma market (IPM) grew 7.7% YoY in Feb’24 (vs. 8.0% in Jan’24 and
24.3% in Feb’23).
Major therapies driving growth were Cardiac/Derma/Neuro (up 13.1%/10.1%/
9.7% YoY) in Feb’24.
Respiratory/Anti-infective therapies declined 1.9%/1.0% YoY, dragging down the
overall performance of IPM.
For the 12 months ending in Feb’24, IPM grew 9.0% YoY. Prices/volume/new
launches witnessed 4.0%/2.0%/3.0% YoY growth.
Out of top 10 brands, Udiliv and Foracort (INR490m/INR790m) grew at 31%/20%
YoY in Feb’24. Rybelsus (INR300m) also registered the highest YoY growth of
88% in Feb’24 in top 40 brands.
Top anti-infective drugs such as DOLO/Calpol/Azithral/Clavam
(INR320m/INR360m/INR370m/INR520m) saw a decline of 20%/17%/17%/9%
YoY, resulting in an overall decline in anti-infective therapy.
IPM
Abbott*
Ajanta
Alembic
Alkem*
Cipla
Dr Reddys
Emcure*
Eris
Glaxo
Glenmark
Intas
Ipca
Jb Chemical*
Lupin
Macleods
Mankind
Sun*
Torrent
Zydus*
9.0
9.5
10.0
6.8
9.0
9.7
7.3
6.7
8.0
2.9
9.7
12.9
13.2
11.9
6.5
11.3
10.2
8.9
8.8
7.2
7.7
8.4
8.0
-0.5
4.0
8.8
9.5
5.8
11.7
3.5
10.7
13.0
15.6
10.8
7.1
8.0
9.7
8.2
8.6
4.8
IPCA/Intas/Eris outperform in Feb’24
In Feb’24, among the top-20 pharma companies, IPCA (up 15.6% YoY), Intas (up
13% YoY) and Eris (up 11.7% YoY) recorded notably higher growth than IPM.
IPCA outperformed IPM, led by strong performance of all the therapies and top
drugs.
Intas outperformed IPM, with Gynae/Anti-diabetic/Neuro posting growth of
20.3%/10.4%/12.3% YoY in Feb’24.
Alembic saw a decline of 0.5% YoY due to a double-digit decline in Anti-
infective/Respiratory and deterioration across all key brands.
JB Chemicals reported industry-leading volume growth of 7.1% YoY on the MAT
basis. Macleods Pharma registered the highest price hike of 7.3% YoY on the
MAT basis. Eris posted the highest growth in new launches (up 10.6% YoY).
Cardiac/Pain/Neuro lead YoY growth on MAT basis
On the MAT basis, the industry reported 9.0% growth YoY.
Urology/Cardiac/Pain grew 14.2%/10.3%/9.6% YoY.
Derma/Anti-Diabetic/Respiratory sales underperformed IPM by
370bp/360bp/230bp, hurting overall growth.
For the fourth consecutive month, Chronic therapy has outperformed acute
therapy. The Acute segment’s share in overall IPM was 62% for MAT Feb’24,
with YoY growth of 8.1%. The chronic segment (38% of IPM) grew 10.5% YoY.
MNCs outperform Indian firms after long time
As of Feb’24, Indian pharma companies hold a major share of 83% in IPM, while
the remaining is held by multinational pharma companies.
In Feb’24, multinational pharma companies have, for the first time in the last 12
months, posted better performance than Indian pharma companies.
Tushar Manudhane - Research Analyst
(Tushar.Manudhane@MotilalOswal.com)
Akash Manish Dobhada - Research Analyst
(Akash.Dobhada@motilaloswal.com)
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