15 Best Selling Most Profitable Drugs of All Time

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1. Lipitor

On top of the list of the 15 bestselling most profitable drugs of all time is Lipitor, a blockbuster drug made by Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE). This drug outsells all other drugs, and remains the most profitable medicine of all time. Lipitor is a lipid-lowering agent which depletes LDL cholesterol and raises HDL cholesterol, which is also known as “good cholesterol”. Lipitor belongs to the “Statins” group of drugs. From its launch in 1997 through the end of 2016, Lipitor generated total sales of $148.74 billion. Pfizer lost its Lipitor patent in 2011, after which the revenue from the drug nosedived. Still, Lipitor’s revenue in 2016 came in at $1.8 billion. In the second-quarter of 2017, Lipitor revenue totaled $445 million.

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