Aurobindo Pharma rises on receiving USFDA approval for Extended Phenytoin Sodium Capsules

16 Jun 2015 Evaluate

Aurobindo Pharma is currently trading at Rs. 1285.15, up by 8.30 points or 0.65% from its previous closing of Rs. 1276.85 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 1303.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 1310.00 and Rs. 1283.95 respectively. So far 18,000 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 1432.10 on 17-Apr-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 644.65 on 10-Jul-2014.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 1323.40 and Rs. 1241.35 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 37,640.00 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 53.97% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 35.82% and 10.21% respectively.

Aurobindo Pharma has received the final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Extended Phenytoin Sodium Capsules USP, 100mg (ANDA 204309). The approved ANDA is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug product (RLD) Dilantin of Parke-Davis Division of Pfizer Inc.

Phenytoin Sodium Extended Capsules is an anti-epileptic product and indicated for the control of seizures and prevention and treatment of seizures occurring during or following neurosurgery. The product has an estimated market size of USD125 Million for the twelve months ending April 2015 according to IMS.

This is the 38th ANDA to be approved out of Unit VII formulation facility in Hyderabad, India for manufacturing Oral Non-betalactam products. Aurobindo now has a total of 199 ANDA approvals (172 Final approvals including 9 from Aurolife Pharma LLC and 27 Tentative approvals) from USFDA.


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