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How big is the pipeline?

Eight companies. No two counting the same thing.

SAME SIZE. HALF THE MOLECULES. SAI LIFE ANTHEM ₹2,192 cr ₹2,124 cr ANNUAL REVENUE 33 14 COMMERCIAL MOLECULES 28.8% 39.3% OPERATING MARGIN
Gland389
Sai Life150+
Anthem100+
Laurus96
Sai Life com.33
Neuland com.19
Anthem com.14
Divi’s4
Piramal, Syngene
Each company’s own headline number

Every one of these is called a pipeline. Gland counts 389 US filings. Sai Life counts 150–160 molecules. Anthem counts 100+ projects. Laurus counts 96 dossiers. Divi’s counts 4 master files. Piramal updates once a year. Syngene gives no number at all.

“We should keep them as projects just given the amount of failures that happen at that stage.” Siva Chittor, CFO · Sai Life Sciences · 7 August 2026

And the count is not the business. Sai Life and Anthem are the same size — ₹2,192 crore against ₹2,124 crore. Sai Life has 33 molecules in commercial supply; Anthem has 14. Anthem earns 39.3%, Sai Life 28.8%.

Neuland sharpens it: its commercial count has been 19, 18, 19, 19 across four years, while the revenue those molecules produce rose three and a half times in one.

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Not advice. Quotes are from the companies’ own earnings calls; figures from their filings.