NVS (NVS) Stock

About NVS

NVS is led by CEO Vasant Narasimhan, employs 75,883 people, headquartered in Basel, CH, publicly traded since 1996.

NVS stock trades at $162.46 with a market capitalization of $308.79B. The stock is valued at a price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio of 23.96, price-to-book of 7.22, price-to-sales of 5.48. Over the past 52 weeks the stock has ranged between $121.57 and $170.46, and currently trades 4.7% below its 52-week high. It pays a dividend yielding 3.01%.

On profitability, NVS generates a return on equity (ROE) of 29.64% — well above the market average, a sign of a high-quality business, return on capital employed of 18.07%, an operating margin of 31.15%, a net profit margin of 23.09%.

In its most recent fiscal year, NVS reported annual revenue of $54.8B, net profit of $14.1B, revenue has compounded at 1.9% a year over the last five years, profit at 11.7% a year. Profit growing faster than revenue points to expanding margins.

The balance sheet shows a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.18, a current ratio of 1.12, total assets of $115.6B, $11.4B in cash and equivalents.

NVS has a beta of 0.46 (less volatile than the overall market).