That’s what an evaluation from PwC finds, a minimum of with respect to inventory market returns.
Our PwC equal-weight index of fifty pharma firms analyzes the sector’s complete shareholder returns efficiency relative to the S&P 500 Equal Weighted Index. From 2018 by November 2024, the PwC pharma index returned 7.6% to shareholders, in contrast with greater than 15% for the S&P 500. Over the past yr, this dynamic grew to become much more pronounced with the PwC pharma index returning 13.9% in comparison with 28.7% for the S&P by November 2024.
Unsurprisingly, worth progress is very concentrated in only a few firms:
…since 2018, an more and more restricted set of firms have influenced constructive returns within the prescription drugs sector. Throughout the S&P 500, the so-called “Magnificent 7” accounted for 40% of the rise in worth since 2018. Within the pharma {industry}, this dynamic is much more stark with simply two [leading GLP-1 manufacturers]…accounting for practically 60% of the rise in worth progress among the many 50 pharma firms analyzed by PwC.
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