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Laurus Labs: Laurus Labs strikes gold by moving up the value chain. But there’s a steeper climb ahead.

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Satyanarayana Chava, founder & CEO, Laurus Lab; image credits: Laurus Labs

Synopsis

Laurus Labs has been a strong player in active pharmaceutical ingredients for antiretrovirals. It has now gone ahead and built a sizeable finished-products business. But given that growth in antiretrovirals could plateau soon and scaling up in markets like the US is a challenge, there will be questions over maintaining the momentum in the formulations business.

In December 2016, a relatively young company from Hyderabad, making active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) mostly for HIV drugs, made a decent debut on the stock exchanges at a 14% premium on its issue price. Today, it is a chartbuster. Laurus Labs has come into the limelight, with its share price and earnings hitting new highs. There is increasing interest among investors in this company, which posted a whopping 1,047% growth in net profit

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