NVSEF · Company

Novartis AG researches, develops, manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells pharmaceutical medicines in Switzerland and internationally. The company offers Entresto, an angiotensin receptorneprilysin inhibitor to treat symptomatic chronic heart failure; Cosentyx to treat plaque psoriasis, pso riatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and nonradiographic axial spondy loarthritis; Kisqali, a selective oral cyclin dependent inhibitor of kinases 4 and 6; Promacta/Revolade for immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), thrombocytopenia, and aplastic anemia patients; Tafinlar+Mekinist, an oral combination therapy to treat cancer patients; and Jakavi for treating myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera, and acute or chronic graftversushost disease. It also provides Tasigna to treat philadelphia chromosomepositive chronic myeloid leukemia in chronic and/or accelerated phase; Xolair for treating allergic asthma and nasal polyps or severe chronic rhinosi nusitis with nasal polyps; Ilaris to treat fever syndromes, Stills disease, and acute gouty arthritis; Pluvicto to treat prostatespecific membrane anti genpositive metastatic castrationresistant prostate cancer; Sandostatin SC and Sandostatin LAR to treat acromegaly carcinoid tumors and functional gastro intestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors; Zolgensma to treat genetic root cause of spinal muscular atrophy; Lucentis; Leqvio to reduce LDL cholesterol; Lutathera; Scemblix; and Fabhalta. The company focuses on therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, immunology, neuroscience, oncology, and hematology. It has a license and collaboration agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Leqvio (inclisiran) to reduce LDL cholesterol. Novartis AG has a strategic alliance with CAS for enhancing reaction data accessibility and supporting AI-enabled research. Novartis AG was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

Management

Buybacks, dividends, acquisitions (millions USD)

Shares outstanding since 2017: -18.3% 2.31 bn → 1.89 bn. Fewer shares — the company buys them back and each holder owns more.