Industry Leaderboard Gains And Dips Were Still Marked By COVID-19

 
• By Jessica Merrill and Edwin Elmhirst

Pfizer held the number one spot on the Scrip 100 on the strength of its COVID-19 products, while some others faced challenging financial comparisons in 2022 because of COVID-19 headwinds.

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Pfizer Inc. dominated the Scrip 100 rankings of the top pharmaceutical companies in the world based on full year 2022 pharmaceutical revenues, driven by its COVID-19 success, but Merck & Co., AstraZeneca and Novo Nordisk each rose on the leaderboard, powered more generally by business fundamentals.

It remained an atypical year for the pharmaceutical industry as some big pharma companies continued to generate unusual growth in...

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