15 Largest Biotech Companies in the World

11. AstraZeneca (NYSE:AZN)

AstraZeneca is a combined British Swedish multinational and biopharmaceutical company with headquarters on both of the aforementioned countries as well. It is one of the most recent companies in this list, having only been founded in 1999 through the merger of Swedish company Astra AB and the British Zeneca Group. The company has kept on going through various acquisitions and currently has a market cap of $130.8 billion, the highest in its history and had revenues of $24.38 in 2019 as well.

The company is currently working on a vaccine for the Covid-19 virus and recently made the news after having to pause the trial when one of the volunteers suffered a serious adverse reaction. The trial has since resumed and further results are awaited.

AstraZeneca plc (ADR) (NYSE:AZN)

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