Top 10 Pharmaceutical Companies
The top 10 pharmaceutical companies by 2004 sales are:
Rank |
Company |
Revenues (USD billions) |
R&D Spend (USD billions) |
1 |
Pfizer |
50.9 |
7.5 |
2 |
GlaxoSmithKline |
32.7 |
5.2 |
3 |
Sanofi-Aventis |
27.1 |
3.9 |
4 |
Johnson & Johnson |
24.6 |
5.2 |
5 |
Merck |
23.9 |
4.0 |
6 |
Novartis |
22.7 |
3.5 |
7 |
AstraZeneca |
21.6 |
3.8 |
8 |
Hoffmann-La Roche |
17.7 |
5.1 |
9 |
Bristol-Myers Squibb |
15.5 |
2.5 |
10 |
Wyeth |
14.2 |
2.5 |
Source: Wendy Diller and Herman Saftlas, "Healthcare: Pharmaceuticals,
" Standard & Poor’s Industry Surveys, 22 December 2005, 13