Aurobindo Pharma gains on entering into exclusive license agreement with COVAXX

24 Dec 2020 Evaluate

Aurobindo Pharma is currently trading at Rs. 897.95, up by 8.05 points or 0.90% from its previous closing of Rs. 889.90 on the BSE.

The scrip opened at Rs. 900.00 and has touched a high and low of Rs. 910.00 and Rs. 900.00 respectively.

The BSE group 'A' stock of face value Rs. 1 has touched a 52 week high of Rs. 967.60 on 10-Aug-2020 and a 52 week low of Rs. 281.15 on 23-Mar-2020.

Last one week high and low of the scrip stood at Rs. 910.00 and Rs. 801.00 respectively. The current market cap of the company is Rs. 52142.68 crore.

The promoters holding in the company stood at 52.01%, while Institutions and Non-Institutions held 36.68% and 11.31% respectively.

Aurobindo Pharma has entered into an Exclusive License Agreement with COVAXX, a US-based company, to develop, commercialize and manufacture UB-612, the first Multitope Peptide-based Vaccine to fight COVID-19, for India and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) agency. COVAXX is currently conducting a Phase 1 clinical trial for the vaccine candidate.

Under the signed agreement, Aurobindo has obtained the exclusive rights to develop, manufacture and sell COVAXX’s UB-612 vaccine in India and to UNICEF, as well as non-exclusive rights in other select emerging and developing markets. Aurobindo and COVAXX are partnering on clinical development, manufacturing and marketing of COVAXX’s vaccine candidate, UB-612. Aurobindo will manufacture the finished doses at its facilities in Hyderabad. Aurobindo has the capacity of manufacturing 220 million doses in multi-dose presentation and is building additional facilities to have a total capacity of nearly 480 million doses by June 2021.

Aurobindo Pharma is engaged in manufacturing pharmaceutical products. It offers active pharmaceutical ingredients, intermediates and generic formulations like astemizole, domeperidone and omeprazole; anti-infective, oral and sterile antibiotics, pain management and osteoporosis segments.

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