BNET Industries
Market Cap:$99.9B
Last Fiscal Year Sales:$32.9B
- Public
- FR
Dow Jones Description
Sanofi-Aventis sees the future - where disease is in the past. Formed by a 2004 merger and headquartered in Paris, France, Sanofi-Aventis (NYSE: SNY (ADR) Euronext Paris: SAN) is the third-largest pharmaceutical maker in the world. The company researches, develops, manufactures, and markets prescription drugs. Its products include Allegra, Aprovel, Eloxatin, Lovenox, Nasacort, Plavix, Taxotere, and Tritace, among others. It has over 100 compounds in development, about 40 of which are in Phase II or III clinical trials. The company has annual revenue of about A28.5 billion and employs about 100,000 people. In March 2006 the company acquired almost 25% of Zentiva NV for approximately A430 million. In 2005 the company sold its interests in Wacker-Chemie.
Number of Employees 97,181
Peer Companies
NAICS Code Drugs and Druggists' Sundries Merchant Wholesalers: 424210
Recent Events
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Sanofi-Aventis SNY Announces Agreement with Intelliject for Novel Epinephrine Auto Injector
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The Side Effect of Developing Obesity Drugs
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Drugmakers' Differences: Analyst's Toolkit
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Deutsche Bank Initiates Coverage on Sanofi-Aventis SNY with a Buy
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Big Pharma Willing to Pay for Biotech Innovation
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Sanofi-Aventis names Spek global operations head 37 mins ago
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Sanofi-Aventis Q3 Profit Rises; Lifts FY09 Adj. EPS Growth View; To Buy Laboratoire Oenobiol -...
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UPDATE 3-Sanofi lifts forecast on swine flu vaccine
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Sanofi-Aventis and Micromet to Develop New Tumour Antibody
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Dyax Corp. Q3 2009 Earnings Call Transcript
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Sanofi-Aventis's New JV Will Provide Entry into Chinas OTC Market
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Mexico pushing for homegrown swine flu vaccine
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Sanofi cozies up to Wellstat for $350M diabetes insulin pact
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Sanofi-Aventis France (SASY.PA) Buys Wellstat Therapeutics Corporation's Type II Diabetes Drug PN2034 For Up To...
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Wellstat Therapeutics and Sanofi-aventis Enter Agreement On Novel Therapy for Type II Diabetes
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Notable Analyst Rating Changes 10/14: CSC, GSK, SNY, ABX, CNO, HOG, TEL Upgrade; VLO, JBLU,...
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Sanofi-Aventis France (SASY.PA) to Buy Dyax Corp. DYAX's Drug Development Partner, Fovea Pharmaceuticals
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BRIEF-Credit Suisse raises targets on European pharma cos
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Sanofi to launch own generic version of Plavix
News & Analysis
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US court upholds patent for heart drug Plavix
NEW YORK AFP — A US judge on Tuesday upheld the patent for Plavix by French group Sanofi-Aventis and its US partner Bristol-Myers Squibb, blocking a generic version of the blockbuster heart drug. The ruling by US District Judge Sidney Stein bars Canadian firm Apotex from producing a generic...
Sanofi fighting generic drugs tooth and nail in US courts
PARIS AFP — The French pharmaceuticals group Sanofi-Aventis is turning to vigorous legal action to protect its best-selling drugs in the United States from cheaper generic competition. "We are sure of our patents," a spokesman for Sanofi-Aventis, the world's third largest drug group, said Wednesday. Sanofi announced it...
Sanofi-Aventis profits rise 53.6 percent on Exubera licence sale
PARIS AFP — Pharmaceutical group Sanofi-Aventis has reported that first-quarter net profit had surged by 53.6 percent with a big injection from the sale of the patent for diabetes treatment Exubera to US group Pfizer. Net profit amounted to 2.173 billion euros (2.76 billion dollars), far above the figure...
Sanofi-Aventis receives allowance on reissuance application for Lovenox '618 patent.(Brief Article)
Sanofi-Aventis (Paris, France) announced that a Notice of Allowance from the United States Patent and Trademark Office had been received on its subsidiary Aventis' application for reissuance of United States Patent 5,389,618 ('618 patent), relating to Lovenox. A Notice of Allowance constitutes a decision from...
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| Volume | 852,754 |
| Shares Outstanding | 2.6B |
| Market Cap | 99.9B |
| Year High | 40.17 |
| Year Low | 24.59 |
| Earnings Per Share | 2.21 |
| P/E Ratio | 17.1765 |
| Dividend | 1.0639 |
| Yield | 2.80 |
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