Pharmaceuticals wholesaler Sopharma Trading expanded its standalone top line by 10.4% to BGN 181.7m in Q1’18 on higher sales in all segments, according to the Company’s financial statements for Q1’18.
Leading generic pharmaceuticals producer Sopharma proposed a BGN 0.11 dividend per share (DPS), the Company disclosed in a filing to the Trade Registry. This comes very short of ELANA Trading Research team BGN 0.12 DPS estimate.
The biggest vertically integrated human health pharmaceutical group in Bulgaria Sopharma booked record performance in 2017 with the top line hitting BGN 1bn and best EBITDA ever on strong organic and M&A driven growth. Individual bottom line margins healthy above historical and peer averages at 20%+ as cost and group optimization kicked in.
Leading pharma group Sopharma (3JR BU) hit record BGN 1bn in revenues for FY2017, marking a 15.1% y/y growth, according to Company’s consolidated financial statements for Q4’17. In FY2017, the Company’s EBITDA grew 17.5% y/y reaching BGN 86.6m, while EBIT was up by 25.4% y/y to BGN 56.3m.
Shareholders of Bulgaria’s leading generic drugs producer Sopharma (3JR BU) and Unipharm (59X BU) approve merger, according to а regulatory note from the two extraordinary shareholders’ meetings held on 23rd Feb 2018.
Sopharma’s (ELANA BG Trader: 3JR BU) smoking cessation drug with positive preliminary clinical trial data in the US, the Company’s American partner Achieve Life Sciences (NASDAQ: ACHV) announced in a statement.
The leading pharma producer Sopharma posted 13% y/y growth of its revenues for FY2017, the Company announced in its regular monthly bulletin. Overall for 2017, the group increased its domestic sales by 3% and its export advanced by 21% y/y as Russian and Ukrainian markets began to recover.