Leadership position in generic APIs with a major focus on Antiretroviral drugs, Hepatitis C & Oncology drugs
FDF: Moved up the value chain in formulations
Synthesis (CDMO): KSMs, Intermediates & APIs to pharma innovators.
Bio: Recombinant products
Laurus Labs FY21 Annual Report Takeaways 🔬
'Capex plans are already under way to increase capacity by 1.8x by 2022'
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Leadership position in generic APIs with a major focus on Antiretroviral drugs, Hepatitis C & Oncology drugs
FDF: Moved up the value chain in formulations
Synthesis (CDMO): KSMs, Intermediates & APIs to pharma innovators.
Bio: Recombinant products
Robust R&D & Process chemistry skills
Compliance that meets the most stringent regulatory expectations (USFDA, etc)
Long-standing relationships | Top 10 global pharma cos. catered
750+ scientists (R&D) | 61 DMFs | 27 ANDAs | 150 patents (292 filed)
- Leaders in various high-value & high-volume APIs.
- 4 high potent manufacturing facilities: 4186 KL, increasing capacity by 24% (Strong demand)
- ARV APIs were up 70% | Onco APIs up 25% | Other APIs up 56% (higher contract manufacturing orders from 🇪🇺)
- Backwardly integrated: in house APIs
- Sales to LMIC, 🇺🇸 & 🇪🇺
- 27 ANDA filled: 9 approved+ 8 tentative.
- Capacity of 5 Billion units/yr, Increasing capacity by 100%
- Sales up 102% (growth across markets)
- Launched TLE 400 in the LMIC market
- CDMO services for global pharma with 50 active projects
- Commercial supplies ongoing for 4 products
- Sales up 35% due to client additions & increased commercialisations
During the year, acquired 73% of Richcore Lifesciences & renames it Laurus Bio.
7 manufacturing plants in Andhra Pradesh & 1 plant in Hyderabad+ a kilo lab at the Hyderabad R&D center.
Future capacities: Debottlenecking to increase by 15% by Q1FY22 & further increases over the next 3 years.
Increasing capacity by 80% in 2022 🧪
From ARV API company to API to Pharmaceutical company
Increased reactor volumes by 20 in 10 years
USFDA manufacturing sites from 1 to 5
Team strength 6 times
DMFs 5 times.
Sales up 70% YoY
33% EBITDA margin
Pat up 286% & Strong Cashflows
Strong Return ratios
4% of turnover invested in R&D
Growth Engines ->
- Formulation segment grew from 5cr to 825crs in 2 years 🤯: tender businesses
- Acquisition of Richcore: In 5yrs want to use its capabilities to do biologics at a scale
- Setting up a dedicated R&D center & manufacturing for synthesis
- Demographics: An increasingly ageing population
- Changing supply chains: 🇨🇳+1, etc
- Digital adoption across business operations
- Pressure on govt. budgets: decreasing medicine prices (generics market share to 🚀)
- CDMO adoption.
Same for the Nutraceutical/dietary supplements
& cosmeceutical segments
The company running in the right direction, let's see if the management has more surprises under their sleeves.
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Laurus Labs Q4FY21 results:
https://t.co/xGojyaTaeU
Laurus Labs concall takeaways \U0001f9ec
— JST Investments (@JstInvestments) April 30, 2021
Targetting $1B revenues & much more afterward (Increased capex guidance for FY22-23 from 1000crs to 1700crs)#Q4withJST #Pharma pic.twitter.com/lFcjPCOhWl
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Key insights from Hikal
🧪 Lowered interest rates
🧪 Pharma: Growth in generics as well as CDMO
🧪 Crop Protection: Scaleup of a fungicide for a Japanese CDMO client
🧪 Healthy pipeline of new products: Supported by new capacities; Investing in Animal Health & Biocides verticals https://t.co/D70j9oriCa
🧪 Lowered interest rates
🧪 Pharma: Growth in generics as well as CDMO
🧪 Crop Protection: Scaleup of a fungicide for a Japanese CDMO client
🧪 Healthy pipeline of new products: Supported by new capacities; Investing in Animal Health & Biocides verticals https://t.co/D70j9oriCa
Hikal: Strong
— JST Investments (@JstInvestments) August 5, 2021
\U0001f9ea Rev up 27% YoY
\U0001f9ea 22% EBITDA margin
\U0001f9ea Pat of 50crs
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@oldschoolinvest I said 20-25% #CDMO (Synthesis) growth going forward in @IIC_Conference June 2020 conclave. They have delivered better than my expectations.
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Money making and fake advisory/PMS propaganda has never been my agenda
Never Knowingly Misguide.
Money making and fake advisory/PMS propaganda has never been my agenda
In just 15 years, #LaurusLabs has scaled up like no other..!
— Conviction | Patience (@unseenvalue) July 5, 2020
Numbers v Narrative: Well balanced 2800 Cr sales + huge competitive advantage in terms of IP/patents/synthesis capability!
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The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.
The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.
"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs
Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;
"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"
It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".
SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN
The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.
Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.
The Swastik is a geometrical figure and an ancient religious icon. Swastik has been Sanatan Dharma’s symbol of auspiciousness – mangalya since time immemorial.
The name swastika comes from Sanskrit (Devanagari: स्वस्तिक, pronounced: swastik) &denotes “conducive to wellbeing or auspicious”.
The word Swastik has a definite etymological origin in Sanskrit. It is derived from the roots su – meaning “well or auspicious” & as meaning “being”.
"सु अस्ति येन तत स्वस्तिकं"
Swastik is de symbol through which everything auspicios occurs
Scholars believe word’s origin in Vedas,known as Swasti mantra;
"🕉स्वस्ति ना इन्द्रो वृधश्रवाहा
स्वस्ति ना पूषा विश्ववेदाहा
स्वस्तिनास्तरक्ष्यो अरिश्तनेमिही
स्वस्तिनो बृहस्पतिर्दधातु"
It translates to," O famed Indra, redeem us. O Pusha, the beholder of all knowledge, redeem us. Redeem us O Garudji, of limitless speed and O Bruhaspati, redeem us".
SWASTIK’s COSMIC ORIGIN
The Swastika represents the living creation in the whole Cosmos.
Hindu astronomers divide the ecliptic circle of cosmos in 27 divisions called https://t.co/sLeuV1R2eQ this manner a cross forms in 4 directions in the celestial sky. At centre of this cross is Dhruva(Polestar). In a line from Dhruva, the stars known as Saptarishi can be observed.
