One Level Deeper
Ask 5 questions, then invest
PPLPHARMA · CDMO · PEER COMPARISONResults toJune 2026

Piramal Pharma vs Laurus Labs, Anthem, Blue Jet and 7 other listed Indian CDMO stocks

Every listed Indian CDMO company covered here — Laurus Labs, Anthem, Blue Jet, Cohance, Divi's, Gland, Neuland, Sai Life, Shilpa, Syngene — against Piramal Pharma, on the same numbers from the same filings. Click a column to rank by it. Tick up to three and press Compare for the full side-by-side.

01

All 11 at a glanceFY26 · prices 22 Sept 2026

Company
1₹248.3k Cr96.7×12.8%32.6%21.5%0.9×0.0×53.5%
2₹108.3k Cr121.9×22.7%26.2%18.0%2.1×0.5×122.0%
3₹50.1k Cr84.6×15.2%39.3%29.6%0.9×0.0×7.3%
4₹48.1k Cr46.8×14.5%25.3%14.9%1.2×0.0×44.8%
5₹33.9k Cr97.2×29.4%28.8%19.2%1.8×0.1×83.1%
6₹28.9k Cr79.3×37.0%28.7%26.6%1.0×0.2×47.3%
vs7Piramal Pharma₹27.9k Crn/m-3.1%10.4%1.2%n/m0.7×3.7%
8₹20.2k Cr83.0×19.9%28.3%11.4%1.7×0.3×152.5%
9₹17.3k Cr96.6×-13.0%18.8%5.8%1.4×0.1×-49.8%
10₹15.2k Cr48.0×2.6%24.6%8.7%2.4×0.1×-42.4%
11₹10.2k Cr41.1×-8.0%31.0%26.5%0.9×0.0×-12.2%
1 of 3 — Laurus

Market cap, P/E and the 12-month return move with the market and are dated to the last close. Every other column is the last full financial year. n/m — loss-making, so the multiple means nothing. A dash means not recorded, which is not the same as nil.

02

Piramal Pharma vs Laurus: the numbers

MetricPPLPHARMALAURUSLABS
What you pay22 Sept 2026
Share price₹210.12₹2,006.50
Market cap₹27,929 Cr₹1,08,331 Cr
P/E-85.69×121.89×
P/B3.42×20.44×
P/S3.15×15.90×
12-month return3.7%122.0%
SizeFY26
Revenue₹8,869 Cr₹6,813 Cr
PAT₹-326 Cr₹889 Cr
Net worth₹8,163 Cr₹5,300 Cr
Gross block₹8,684 Cr₹4,371 Cr
GrowthFY26
Revenue growth-3.1%22.7%
Revenue CAGR (3y)7.8%4.1%
PAT CAGR (3y)4.0%
What it keepsFY26
EBITDA margin10.4%26.2%
PAT margin-3.7%13.0%
ROCE1.2%18.0%
ROE-4.0%16.8%
CFO / PAT (3y)-16.36×2.05×
What it owesFY26
Net debt₹4,451 Cr₹2,405 Cr
Debt / equity0.70×0.48×
CWIP₹1,100 Cr₹773 Cr
Debtor days89 days115 days
Who owns itFY26
Promoter holding34.8%27.5%
Institutional holding27.1%41.7%

Every figure comes from the same filings the company pages are built from. A dash means the figure is not recorded, which is not the same as nil.

03

What Piramal Pharma and Laurus do

Piramal Pharma

Piramal Pharma is three businesses under one name. Contract manufacturing is 55% of revenue, from fifteen sites in India, Britain and America; its own hospital drugs are 30%, where it is the largest American supplier of sevoflurane with 48% of that market; Indian consumer brands are 14%. Thirty-eight regulatory inspections last year, three by the American FDA, produced no adverse classification.

Laurus

Laurus makes the active ingredients inside medicines, and increasingly makes the finished medicines for other companies too. Affordable medicines, largely HIV treatments, were 57% of June-quarter revenue; contract manufacturing was 43% and growing at 69%. Fifteen manufacturing sites, 8,126 people, more than 1,540 of them scientists.

04

What they have built, and what is coming

Piramal Pharma

Almost entirely built. The one purchase was a single brand — Kenalog, bought from Bristol Myers Squibb — which needed no factory and no sales force because it slots into a network already reaching 6,000 hospitals. Everything else is capital: $90 million committed to two American sites for sterile injectables and antibody-drug-conjugate work, and $120–135 million of capital spending guided for the year.

Laurus

More than ₹4,700 crore has gone into plants over five years, over 85% of it into growth rather than upkeep, with new capacity at Vizag and a joint venture with KRKA at Hyderabad. Fifty-four inspections passed by the American, WHO, European and Japanese regulators, and 92 drug master files. What is being built next is antibody-drug conjugates through the Aarvik agreement, gene therapy, and 500 acres just handed over in Andhra Pradesh.

05

Who runs them

Piramal Pharma

Nandini Piramal is executive chairperson and Peter DeYoung, also of the promoter group, runs the global pharma business, with Vivek Valsaraj as finance director — three of ten board seats against six independents. The promoter group holds 34.80%, none of it pledged. Two things sit uneasily: the auditors are a mid-tier firm for a group with twenty overseas subsidiaries, and pay to directors and key management rose 64% to ₹25.87 crore in a year the company lost ₹326 crore.

Laurus

Founder Dr Satyanarayana Chava runs it, and since April 2024 two more of his family have held executive director seats — three of the five. The promoter group owns 27.47% across several vehicles, though the founder's own family holds about 23.3% of that, and a small parcel of 0.74% is given as loan security. Pay is the line worth watching: ₹74 crore between five executive directors and one relative, the founder's own up 65% to ₹38.12 crore.

06

What management actually said

Piramal Pharma

Capital spending guided at $120–135 million for the year, against $21 million spent in the first quarter.

Q1 FY27

The East-West network: a molecule can be developed in Ahmedabad, made at scale in Michigan and filled into sterile vials in Kentucky.

FY26 annual report
Laurus

On a big pharma client onboarded in the quarter — “significant opportunities ahead of us.”

Dr Satyanarayana Chava · Q1 FY27 earnings call

Asked directly about concentration: none of consequence by programme, customer or therapeutic area, and contract work is predominantly on-patent innovator molecules.

Q1 FY27 earnings call
06

If you had bought a year ago

Piramal Pharma₹1,03,655+4%
Laurus₹2,22,007+122%

Closing prices to 22 Sept 2026, adjusted for bonuses and splits. Dividends are not counted. This is what happened, not what will.

One level deeper · by email

Get the next one
by email

A sector, read end to end, and the companies as they are published. Roughly monthly. Nothing else, and one click to stop.

Built with care for you