European Pharma 2023: A Rocky Year For Roche But Novo Is Rising Fast

Forecast For Europe’s Biggest Pharma Companies

Roche remains the European sector’s biggest company despite a wobble in 2022, but Novo Nordisk’s spectacular growth has seen it overtake AstraZeneca and Novartis in market cap terms.

Novo Nordisk
Novo Nordisk is expected to be the standout performer in European pharma in 2023 thanks to its rapidly growing diabetes and obesity franchise. • Source: Shutterstock

Just ahead of the Q4 and full-year reporting season, Scrip takes a look at the prospects for Europe’s biggest biopharma firms and what 2023 is likely to hold in store for them in terms of growth, regulatory and market milestones.

While Roche continues to be the big beast of the European sector in terms of market cap and revenues it saw its prospects hit in 2022 as revenues from COVID-19 therapies dried up and key late-stage trial readouts for TIGIT

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