Sun Pharma net profit up 43 percent at Rs 2,061 crore in Q1

The Mumbai-based company had posted a net profit of Rs 1,444 crore in April-June 2021-22.

Total revenue from operations rose to Rs 10,762 crore in the period under review from Rs 9,719 crore earlier, Sun Pharmaceutical Industries said in a regulatory filing.

"For Q1, all our businesses recorded good growth, driven by a combination of sustained scale-up for our specialty business and all-round growth across markets," Managing Director Dilip Shanghvi said.

Specialty business grew 29 per cent driven by Ilumya, Cequa, Odomzo and Winlevi, he added.

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"Our India business continues to grow faster than market, leading to increase in market share. We have been able to report healthy margins despite rising costs," Shanghvi said.

The company continues to focus on expanding global specialty business, growing all its businesses and improving market share, he added.

Shares of the company were trading 3.88 per cent up at Rs 929.5 apiece on the BSE.

Sun Pharma is an Indian multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra. The company manufacture and market a large basket of pharmaceutical formulations covering a broad spectrum of chronic and acute therapies. It includes generics, branded generics, specialty, complex or difficult to make technology-intensive products, over-the-counter (OTC), antiretrovirals (ARVs), Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) and Intermediates.