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Viatris Inc

CIK: 17920442 Annual ReportsLatest: 2025-04-30

10-K / April 30, 2025

Revenue:$14,739,300,000
Income:-$634,200,000

10-K / April 26, 2024

Revenue:$15,426,900,000
Income:$54,700,000

10-K / April 30, 2025

Viatris Company Summary

Business Focus

  • Viatris is a healthcare company that develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceuticals, including generic and specialty medicines.
  • The company operates globally across various markets, focusing on delivering affordable medicines and healthcare solutions.

Key Operations & Strategic Focus

  • Maintains a diversified portfolio of more than 1,000 products spanning multiple therapeutic areas.
  • Emphasizes growth through expanding its innovative portfolio, including complex and difficult-to-formulate products like modified-release and injectable therapies.
  • Focuses on building a large, diversified base business across generics and off-patent brands.
  • Develops and advances a pipeline that includes dosage forms like oral solids, transdermals, injectables, inhalation, and others.
  • Engages in acquisitions and strategic partnerships to increase product offerings and develop new therapies, including in immunology and cardiovascular areas.

Financial Highlights (2024)

  • Total revenue: $14.7 billion
  • U.S. GAAP net loss: $(634) million
  • Adjusted EBITDA: $4.7 billion
  • U.S. GAAP diluted EPS: $(0.53) per share
  • Adjusted EPS: $2.65 per share
  • Net cash provided by operating activities: $2.3 billion
  • Free cash flow: $2.0 billion (including ~$650 million in transaction-related costs)
  • Debt reduction: Paid down approximately $3.7 billion of debt
  • Gross leverage ratio at year-end: 2.9x (compared to a targeted around 3.0x)
  • Capital returned to shareholders: $825 million through dividends and share repurchases
  • Supporting approximately 1 billion patients worldwide

Operations & Divestitures

  • Completed divestitures of several business segments:
    • Women's healthcare business, including contraceptive products, to Insud Pharma.
    • API business in India, sold to Matrix Pharma.
    • Over-the-counter (OTC) business, sold to Cooper Consumer Health.
  • Maintains select rights for products like Viagra® and Dymista® in certain markets.

Research & Development

  • Focus on developing complex products and expanding patent-protected assets.
  • Made acquisitions such as rights to Phase 3 assets for selatogrel and cenerimod from Idorsia.
  • Announced licensing agreements, including sotagliflozin for heart failure and diabetes.

Customer Base

  • Supplies high-quality medicines to approximately 1 billion patients globally.

Manufacturing & Product Types

  • Produces medicines in various dosage forms:
    • Oral solid dosage
    • Transdermal patches
    • Injectables
    • Inhalation therapies
  • Avoids commodity products; instead, invests in complex, hard-to-formulate treatments.

Market & Global Reach

  • Operates worldwide with facilities and markets across developed nations, emerging markets, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Greater China.
  • Provides healthcare solutions in over a dozen therapeutic areas with a focus on affordability and accessibility.

Corporate Governance & Leadership

  • Led by CEO Scott A. Smith since April 2023.
  • Senior management includes executives with extensive healthcare industry experience.
  • The Board of Directors combines expertise in management, finance, healthcare, legal, and governance, with a focus on strategy, risk oversight, and sustainability.

Summary

Viatris is a large, diversified global healthcare company specializing in generics and complex medicines, with a broad product portfolio, a significant patient reach, and ongoing investments in innovation and strategic acquisitions. It maintains a strong financial position, prioritizes cost management, and actively manages risks and corporate governance to support long-term growth.