Last Price | 166.40 | Max Price | 166.40 |
Min Price | 66.44 | 1 Year return | 126.21 |
Avg. Target | 120.00 | Expected Return | -27.88 % |
Sector | Health Care | Subsector | Pharmaceuticals |
Sell | 0 | Rating | |
Hold | 2 | Concensus | |
Buy | 3 | ||
Annual report 2018 |
UCB Group is an international pharmaceutical company from Belgium. UCB Group has around 12,000 employees. UCB Group products include ‘Keppra’, ‘Xyzal’, ‘Zyrtec’, ‘Nootropil’ and ‘Atarax’. UCB's stocks are traded on the Euronext Brussels and the company is a component of the BEL20.
UCB or Union Chimique Belge is the international bio pharmaceutical conglomerate that has been established on 18 January, 1928 by a Belgium businessman Emmanuel Janssen. The foundation of the company can be considered as a successively done conversion of a hybrid chemical firm into a patient centric pharmaceutical company. The main headquarter of the company is located in Brussels, Belgium and the other North-American headquarter is residing in the outside region of Atlanta, Georgia. The main key personalities of the company are known to be Karel Boone, Chairman and Roch Doliveux, Chief Executive Officer of the company, providing employment to approximately 12,000 people globally. The operating units of the company currently have a presence in around 40 countries with a further aim of making a network of the company and its associated partners as a cross functional industry on location all over the world, majorly focusing on severe diseases.
Shares of the company are being traded on the continuous market of Euronext Brussels, coming to the count of BEL-20 with the revenue generation of 3.4 billion €, as was the case in 2012. The overall possessions of the company come out to be around 8.9 billion € along with the total equity of 4.59 billion € (according to the data of 2010). The main products that have been manufactured by the group includes the names of Metadate, omeprazole, Xyzal, Keppra, Vimpat, Cimzia, Nootropil, Zyrtec and Atarax. There are three of the main segmentation within the structure of UCB, named as Science, People and Patients. Science section consists of Commercial partners, Research partners and In-house R&D. People section focusing on cross functional teams and can be considered as a global knowledge-sharing platform. The third and the last section include patient communities, health care professionals and caregivers. The global network of the company is made with the involvement of many of the partners starting from Biowa, ChemBridge, Evotec, Emerald, Harvard University, K.U. Leuven, Pfizer and ending up to Wilex.
Currently, the company is focusing on two of the main therapeutic fields - Central Nervous System and Immunology. The first part concentrating mainly on Parkinson's and Epilepsy diseases along with the rest-less legs syndrome and the second part is focusing on disorders like bone-loss, lupus, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease. ‘Braine-l'Alleud’ in Belgium (for CNS disorders) and ‘Slough’ in UK (for immunology department) are the two main Research Centers of Excellence associated with the company. Primary developmental locations have the presence at the locations of Atlanta, Braine-l'Alleud, Tokyo, Slough, Monheim and Research Triangle Park. A virtualized R & D collaborating platform has also been made by implementing the principles of Wikipedia by the group in which multi disciplinary teams (including the members from R&D and supply chain departments), which works for the completion of the projects of the company.
Year | Turnover | Total sector | Market share |
---|---|---|---|
2019 | 4,913 | 615,634 | 0.80 % |
2020 | 5,347 | 638,070 | 0.84 % |
2021 | 5,777 | 727,968 | 0.79 % |
2022 | 5,517 | 787,273 | 0.70 % |
2023 | 0 | 0 | 0.00 % |
Analysts expect over 2023 revenue increase UCB
Analysts expect over 2020 rising revenue UCB
UCB strong outperformer among the Belgian stocks
Analysts foresee more revenue UCB
Analysts think UCB is fairly priced
2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 |
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The period between December 2015 and December 2016 was a loss-making period for the investors in UCB. The stock lost around 25 percent. Over the past 5 years the stock rose a massive 89,51 percent. UCB's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were quite stable and moved between 3,46 billion euros and 3,88 billion euros. UCB's net results between 2011 and 2015 were far from constant and moved between 221 million euros and 315 million euros.
UCB has her headquarter located in Brussels. The core activities of UCB are in the pharmaceutical sector. Over the past 10 years the global pharmaceutical companies gained around 75 percent. Measured since 2011 the sector is 147 percent higher and over the past 12 months (December 2015-December 2016) there is a minus of 75 percent.
Over the past 5 years the Belgian company paid out dividends. UCB's dividend return over the period 2011 - 2015 was around 4,2 percent per year. Over the past 5 years the company raised it's dividends each year. Because of the yearly increased dividends UCB can be called a kind of dividend aristocrat.
The Belgian company had ultimo 2015 approximately 8684 thousand employees on it's payroll.
Last year the balance sheet of the Belgian company was worth 10,96 billion euros. At the end of 2015 the total debt positon equaled 5,28 billion euros. This is around 48,23 percent of the total balance sheet. As per the end of 2015 UCB's price/earnings-ratio equaled 44. So investors paid for 1 stock 44 times the earnings per share of 2015. We could say that based on it's price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the Belgian stock can be seen as a value stock.
At the end of 2015 the Belgian company's market capitalization equaled around 15,73 billion euros. At the end of 2015 around 192,08 million stocks were listed.
All UCB's financial reports are available here. More information about UCB can be found it's website. .
Results |
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
2020
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Revenue |
3,876
|
4,178
|
4,530
|
4,632
|
4,913
|
5,347
|
Costs |
3,253
|
3,658
|
3,777
|
3,832
|
4,121
|
4,615
|
Profit |
623
|
520
|
753
|
800
|
792
|
732
|
Margin of profit |
16.07
|
12.45
|
16.62
|
17.27
|
16.12
|
13.69
|
ROI |
10.98
|
9.31
|
12.95
|
12.68
|
11.25
|
10.07
|
Balance |
2015
|
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
2020
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Equity |
5,672
|
5,584
|
5,813
|
6,310
|
7,039
|
7,271
|
Debt |
5,284
|
4,628
|
4,104
|
4,204
|
4,042
|
6,048
|
Total assets |
10,956
|
10,212
|
9,917
|
10,514
|
11,081
|
13,319
|
Solvency |
51.77
|
54.68
|
58.62
|
60.02
|
63.52
|
54.59
|
Cash |
1,304
|
799
|
1,112
|
1,356
|
1,432
|
1,522
|
Cashflow |
246
|
427
|
927
|
1,089
|
882
|
1,081
|
Employees |
7,900
|
7,400
|
7,478
|
7,495
|
0
|
|
Revenue per employee |
0.49
|
0.56
|
0.61
|
0.62
|
0.0
|
|
Cashflow / Debt |
0.05
|
0.09
|
0.23
|
0.26
|
0.22
|
0.18
|
Details |
2016
|
2017
|
2018
|
2019
|
2020
|
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Price |
83.23
|
60.91
|
66.18
|
71.30
|
70.90
|
Eps |
2.76
|
4.00
|
4.24
|
4.23
|
3.87
|
Price/earnings-ratio |
30.16
|
15.23
|
15.61
|
16.86
|
43.00
|
Dividend |
0.81
|
0.83
|
0.85
|
0.87
|
0.89
|
Dividend % |
0.97 %
|
1.36 %
|
1.28 %
|
1.22 %
|
0.53 %
|
Payout % |
0.29
|
0.21
|
0.20
|
0.21
|
0.23
|
Book value |
29.60
|
30.89
|
33.40
|
37.33
|
38.47
|
Market to book |
0.36
|
0.51
|
0.50
|
0.52
|
0.23
|
Cashflow per stock |
2.26
|
4.93
|
5.76
|
4.68
|
5.72
|
Stocks |
189
|
188
|
189
|
189
|
189
|
Market Cap |
15.703.61
|
11.463.93
|
12.501.93
|
13.445.97
|
31.453.76
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Date
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Price
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05 Oct 2024
|
166.40
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02 Oct 2024
|
165.75
|
27 Sep 2024
|
163.85
|
20 Sep 2024
|
160.05
|
17 Sep 2024
|
164.45
|
13 Sep 2024
|
163.15
|
28 Aug 2024
|
161.90
|
26 Aug 2024
|
161.85
|
23 Aug 2024
|
161.55
|
11 Aug 2024
|
157.60
|
07 Aug 2024
|
152.20
|
05 Aug 2024
|
146.55
|
01 Aug 2024
|
154.65
|
30 Jul 2024
|
157.40
|
26 Jul 2024
|
150.40
|
23 Jul 2024
|
143.90
|
16 Jul 2024
|
143.85
|
10 Jul 2024
|
145.00
|
09 Jul 2024
|
142.80
|
04 Jul 2024
|
139.75
|
02 Jul 2024
|
136.65
|
26 Jun 2024
|
136.65
|
21 Jun 2024
|
119.30
|
19 Jun 2024
|
119.30
|
14 Jun 2024
|
119.30
|
11 Jun 2024
|
119.30
|
01 Jun 2024
|
119.30
|
31 May 2024
|
119.30
|
27 May 2024
|
119.30
|
21 May 2024
|
119.30
|