5 Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies in the World

2. Roche Holding AG (OTC: RHHBY)

Market Capitalization as of September 11, 2021: $328.6 billion

Market Capitalization as of September 02, 2022: $260.3 billion

Roche Holding AG (SWX: ROG.SW) has been helping millions of people globally since 1896 by creating both diagnostic tests and medicines. Roche Holding AG (SWX: ROG.SW) is famous for being the leading producer of cancer treatments worldwide. In addition to oncology, the medicines produced by Roche Holding AG (SWX: ROG.SW) range across infectious diseases, neuroscience, immunology, and ophthalmology. Roche Holding AG (SWX: ROG.SW) always brings targeted treatments to its patients while its diagnostics division plays a major role in the company’s research projects.

In its Q4 2020 investor letter, Brown Capital Management highlighted a few stocks, and Roche Holdings AG (NYSE:RHHBY) is one of them. Here is what the fund said:

“We eliminated Roche Holdings, a Switzerland-based company that is the largest biotech in the world. While the company is on the cutting edge of drug discovery, particularly in cancer-related treatments, it is facing an uncertain growth path and pressure from generics in its mature drugs. Roche has been a positive contributor to the portfolio since its introduction more than a decade ago, and we now take the opportunity to recycle the capital into higher-growth companies.”