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Novo Nordisk A/S

NVO Healthcare Drug Manufacturers General

Novo Nordisk A/S’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $46.8 billion, up 11.1% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 4.47%, EPS fell 18.7%, free cash flow grew 71.6% and total debt rose 44.4%, each against the same quarter a year earlier. Revenue growth for ten consecutive years, operating cash flow growth for five.

38.64 0.46 +1.20%
Market cap
$127.8B
P/E
9.4×
Fwd P/E
—
Dividend yield
4.65%
F-score
5/9
Altman Z
4.32
Beneish M
−2.51
Dividend safety
46/100

Insider Decisions trades per month

Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell — — — — — — — — — — — —
Insider Ownership 24.48%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 127,750.00
Revenue 51,459.47
Net Income 17,882.69
Free Cash Flow 7,610.53
Net Debt 14,205.51
Current Ratio 0.87 (below 1: weak)
Debt/Equity 0.63
P/E ratio 9.45
Fwd P/E —
P/S ratio 3.33
P/B ratio 4.98
Past 5Y EPS Growth 20.39% (at or above 15%: strong)
This Y EPS Growth (7.84%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y EPS Growth (0.62%) (below 0%: weak)
Next Y revenue growth —
Next 5Y EPS Growth (0.11%) (below 0%: weak)

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 0.89%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 0.74%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 0.41%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 0.59%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 30.21%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio 0.44
Annual Dividend Rate 1.80
Annual Dividend Yield 4.65%
total individual payouts
2026 1.80
1.22
0.58
2025 1.73
1.14
0.58
2024 1.45
0.93
0.52
2023 1.03
0.59
0.44
2022 0.80
0.51
0.29
2021 0.74
0.46
0.28
2020 0.65
0.39
0.26
2019 0.61
0.39
0.22
2018 0.63
0.40
0.23
2017 0.57
0.34
0.24
2016 0.48
0.48
0.23
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 4,730 4,732 5,094 7,598
Receivables 10,928 12,675 13,503 16,884
Inventory 4,619 5,923 7,513 7,990
Other — — — —
20,277 23,330 26,109 32,473
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 3,718 4,183 2,991 2,270
ST’ Debt 941 1,901 1,819 2,853
Other 18,942 24,049 26,566 28,895
24,634 31,542 32,651 37,201

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 11.29% 19.20% 23.15%
Cash Flow 12.21% 17.77% 17.31%
Earnings 11.57% 19.16% 25.41%
Book Value 15.44% 24.81% 35.45%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 15,162 12,213 — — —
’25 11,018 11,690 11,741 12,343 46,792
’24 9,515 9,821 10,511 12,261 42,108
’23 7,690 7,933 8,575 9,526 33,724
’22 6,338 5,901 6,165 6,652 25,057
’21 5,480 5,356 5,650 5,916 22,401
’20 5,003 4,432 4,856 5,157 19,448
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 3,772 8,565 — — —
’25 3,470 6,474 7,515 574 18,032
’24 2,084 7,269 6,664 1,523 17,540
’23 4,296 4,235 5,975 1,307 15,813
’22 3,557 3,242 2,913 1,458 11,170
’21 1,824 4,094 3,283 (451) 8,751
’20 1,479 3,583 3,067 (170) 7,959
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1,886 6,585 — — —
’25 1,412 3,838 4,962 (5,822) 4,389
’24 772 5,370 4,753 (795) 10,101
’23 3,604 3,197 4,425 (1,061) 10,166
’22 3,288 2,888 2,375 530 9,081
’21 1,581 3,788 3,027 (822) 7,576
’20 1,224 3,381 2,083 (2,112) 4,577
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 1.71 0.74 — — —
’25 0.92 0.91 0.70 0.94 3.49
’24 0.83 0.65 0.90 0.91 3.28
’23 0.64 0.63 0.73 0.71 2.70
’22 0.37 0.42 0.43 0.42 1.73
’21 0.44 0.43 0.42 0.37 1.65
’20 0.38 0.34 0.35 0.32 1.38
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

3
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 15.45 16.42 20.62 23.05 24.62 33.30 45.76 65.05 81.50 43.08

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 29.08 27.06 29.19 29.32 36.96 58.68 67.93 105.69 148.15 93.80
People
People Employees 41,971 42,076 43,202 43,258 45,323 45,000 55,185 63,370 77,349 69,505
Revenue/emp, $m 0.40 0.40 0.40 0.42 0.43 0.50 0.45 0.53 0.54 0.67
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 16,611 16,967 17,099 18,291 19,448 22,401 25,057 33,724 42,108 46,792
Gross margin, % 84.63 84.21 84.25 83.54 83.51 83.20 83.92 84.60 84.67 80.98
EBT 7,103 7,394 7,280 7,278 8,140 9,400 9,779 15,199 18,443 19,764
EBT margin, % 42.76 43.58 42.58 39.79 41.85 41.96 39.03 45.07 43.80 42.24
Net income 5,636 5,792 5,906 5,839 6,456 7,598 7,862 12,151 14,643 15,509
Depreciation 474 483 600 849 881 959 1,042 1,367 2,771 3,328
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 3.28 3.43 3.53 3.85 4.17 4.88 5.53 7.52 9.45 10.53
Earnings 1.07 1.17 1.27 1.23 1.39 1.66 1.74 2.71 3.29 3.49
Cash flow 1.42 1.26 1.41 1.48 1.71 1.90 2.47 3.53 3.94 4.06
Capex (0.24) (0.27) (0.39) (0.35) (0.72) (0.26) (0.46) (1.26) (1.67) (3.07)
Free cash flow 1.18 1.00 1.02 1.12 0.98 1.65 2.00 2.27 2.27 0.99
Book value 1.33 1.53 1.64 1.82 2.08 2.45 2.61 3.45 4.67 6.61
Shares, m 5,060 4,946 4,839 4,749 4,668 4,594 4,531 4,483 4,454 4,443
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 16.11 23.24 18.21 23.53 25.40 33.84 39.47 37.75 26.15 14.66
P/S 5.47 7.89 6.52 7.51 8.38 11.48 12.38 13.57 9.10 4.83
P/B 13.51 17.70 14.07 15.92 16.81 22.86 26.24 29.58 18.41 7.69
EV/Sales 5.28 7.72 6.38 7.42 8.36 11.54 12.38 13.55 9.34 5.15
EV/FCF 14.74 26.51 22.16 25.47 35.54 34.12 34.16 44.95 38.94 54.86
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 7,179 6,253 6,822 7,013 7,959 8,751 11,170 15,813 17,540 18,032
Capex (1,227) (1,312) (1,896) (1,683) (3,382) (1,175) (2,089) (5,648) (7,440) (13,643)
Free cash flow 5,952 4,941 4,926 5,330 4,577 7,576 9,081 10,166 10,101 4,389
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital 1,832 1,978 750 521 (684) (2,215) (1,805) (4,357) (8,211) (6,542)
Total debt 34 257 79 672 1,587 4,239 3,651 3,921 14,904 19,827
Net debt (3,120) (2,956) (2,343) (1,676) (368) 1,188 (73) (808) 10,172 14,733
Shareholders’ equity 6,727 7,567 7,926 8,633 9,701 11,256 11,822 15,473 20,805 29,379
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA 40.03 38.56 36.36 32.65 31.47 28.59 24.15 30.44 25.87 20.71
ROIC 124.72 100.83 80.88 70.67 55.53 46.86 56.35 63.48 37.55 27.38
ROE 82.18 81.04 76.24 70.52 70.42 72.51 68.14 89.04 80.73 61.81
Negative figures in brackets.

All 10 years →

Fiscal years to Dec 2025 · latest quarter Jun 2026

Charts ten years each

Novo Nordisk A/S vs peers in Drug Manufacturers General (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
NVS Novartis AG $262.0B 21.6× 20.6× +0.78% (above 0%: growing) −17.39% (below 0%: shrinking) −15.53% (below 0%: shrinking) 75.19% 31.77% Compare
AZN AstraZeneca PLC $246.3B 23.6× 23.4× +6.41% (above 0%: growing) +1.90% (above 0%: growing) −107.45% (below 0%: shrinking) 83.60% 20.57% Compare
AMGN Amgen Inc. $220.3B 25.6× 22.7× +9.53% (above 0%: growing) +65.41% (above 0%: growing) +82.57% (above 0%: growing) 72.04% 34.95% Compare
GILD Gilead Sciences, Inc. $182.4B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +10.18% (above 0%: growing) n/m +376.81% (above 0%: growing) 79.76% (133.21%) Compare
PFE Pfizer Inc. $158.6B 37.2× 12.2× +2.60% (above 0%: growing) n/m +125.17% (above 0%: growing) 72.78% 20.38% Compare
NVO Novo Nordisk A/S $127.8B 9.4× — +4.47% (above 0%: growing) −18.68% (below 0%: shrinking) +71.57% (above 0%: growing) 78.21% 34.48%
BMY Bristol Myers Squibb Company $121.7B 13.0× 11.2× +5.74% (above 0%: growing) +153.13% (above 0%: growing) −13.16% (below 0%: shrinking) 71.28% 31.50% Compare
SNY Sanofi $95.9B 21.0× — +17.35% (above 0%: growing) −90.76% (below 0%: shrinking) −45.06% (below 0%: shrinking) 75.47% 17.48% Compare
GSK GSK PLC Sponsored ADR $93.2B 14.5× 12.4× +5.81% (above 0%: growing) −69.47% (below 0%: shrinking) +54.83% (above 0%: growing) 73.05% 5.72% Compare
Median of peers $170.5B 21.6× 16.5× +6.11% −7.74% +20.84% 74.12% 20.48%

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Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) key facts

  • Strength: Novo Nordisk A/S’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $46.8 billion, up 11.1% from fiscal 2024.
  • Strength: Net income was $15.5 billion, or $3.49 per share (basic), a net margin of 33.1%.
  • Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) is a Drug Manufacturers General company in the Healthcare sector, traded in the US as an ADR.
  • As of October 9, 2026, NVO traded at $38.64, a market capitalization of $127.8 billion.
  • At that price the stock trades at 9.4× trailing-twelve-month earnings and 3.3× sales; its P/E is higher than 1% of its own readings over the past ten years.
  • Novo Nordisk A/S pays an annual dividend of $1.80 per share, a yield of 4.65%, with a payout ratio of 43.9%.
  • Return on equity was 61.8% and debt-to-equity 0.63.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 5 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 4.32 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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