Aurobindo Pharma rises on receiving USFDA approval for Loperamide Hydrochloride Tablet

18 Dec 2015 Evaluate

Aurobindo Pharma is currently trading at Rs. 837.00, up by 4.25 points or 0.51% from its previous closing of Rs. 832.75 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 832.75 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 837.25 and Rs. 830.50 respectively. So far 10322 shares were traded on the counter.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 860.80 on 29-Oct-2015 and a 52 week low of Rs. 490.50 on 26-Feb-2015.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 837.25 and Rs. 800.45 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 48629.65 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 53.92% while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 34.97% and 11.11% respectively.

Aurobindo Pharma has received final approval from the US Food & Drug Administration (USFDA) to manufacture and market Loperamide Hydrochloride Tablet, 2 mg. This product is expected to be launched in Q4 FY2015-16. The approved ANDA is bioequivalent and therapeutically equivalent to the reference listed drug product (RLD) Imodium A-D Tablets, 2 mg, of Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc., McNeil Consumer Healthcare Division.

Loperamide Hydrochloride Tablet is used to control symptoms of diarrhea, including Travelers’ diarrhea. The approved product has an estimated market size of $9.7 million for the twelve months ending October 2015 according to IMS.

This is the 53rd ANDA to be approved out of Unit VII formulation facility in Hyderabad, India for manufacturing Oral Non-Antibiotic products. Aurobindo now has a total of 223 ANDA approvals (195 Final approvals including 10 from Aurolife Pharma LLC and 28 Tentative approvals) from USFDA.

 

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