Viatris
Viatris' revenue fell 3.0% to $14.3 billion in fiscal 2025. Its operating margin was −18.6%, down from 0.1% a year earlier. Free cash flow was $1.9 billion, down 2.0%. It paid out $500 million in dividends and buybacks, 26% of free cash flow. The diluted share count fell 1.9%.
Operating margin is operating income as a share of revenue. Free cash flow is cash from operations minus capital spending. Return on capital is after-tax operating income as a share of the money invested in the business: debt plus equity, minus cash. Market cap is the last closing share price times the latest diluted share count, so it is approximate. P/E is the last close divided by diluted earnings per share over the last four quarters, or the latest fiscal year where the quarters aren't available; there is none when the company made a loss.
What Viatris does
Viatris makes and sells medicines. Its portfolio includes generic drugs (including complex products), well-known brands and a smaller group of newer medicines. Customers include retail and pharmacy chains, wholesalers, governments, institutions and doctors. The company says its medicines reach about 1 billion patients each year, in more than 165 countries and territories.
It makes money by selling these medicines. It reports four segments by region: Developed Markets, Emerging Markets, JANZ (Japan, Australia and New Zealand) and Greater China. Its revenue was $14.30 billion in 2025. Over the last few years it has sold several businesses, including its women's healthcare business, its India-based active ingredients business and its over-the-counter business, to simplify the company and pay down debt.
Viatris has 27 manufacturing, packaging and distribution sites and more than 30,000 employees. It is headquartered in the United States, with global centers in Pittsburgh, Shanghai and Hyderabad.
Its biggest risks, as it describes them
- Strategic plans and business sales that may not deliver the benefits it expects.
- Pressure on drug prices and reimbursement from governments, insurers and large buyers.
- Health care reform laws that could reduce what it is paid or change how its medicines are covered.
- Counterfeit and infringing medicines entering the drug supply.
- Failing to launch new products on time, and the heavy regulation of the drug industry.
Charts show fiscal years, from the 10-K filings.
Revenue and margins
Net income and earnings per share
From fiscal 2016 to 2023, earnings per share fell 34.0% a year and net income 26.7% a year, as new shares raised the share count by 132% and diluted each share's earnings. Viatris then lost money in fiscal 2024 and 2025.
Returns on capital
Cash flow
Payouts and share count
Valuation
Two ways to value Viatris yourself, both starting from its filings: a discounted cash flow model and the price-to-earnings method.
Discounted cash flow (DCF)
A discounted cash flow (DCF) model values a business as the cash it may generate in future, discounted back to today. The starting figures come from Viatris' 10-K (or, for net cash and shares, its latest 10-Q) and the assumptions are yours: start from one of three example scenarios, then change any figure to see what it implies for a share, and how that compares with the last share price.
Value per share on three example scenarios, from Viatris' fiscal 2025 free cash flow of $1.9B, net cash of −$13.1B at December 31, 2025 and 1,171 million diluted shares, from its filings. The scenarios are fitted to Viatris: the base scenario's growth in years 1 to 5 is its revenue growth over the last 3 years, -4.2% a year, kept between 0% and 20%; the cautious and optimistic ones are lower and higher, and growth in years 6 to 10 is halfway to the long-run rate. The base scenario's discount rate is 8%: 7% for a stable business (Pharmaceuticals), plus 1 point for unsteady results (a loss in fiscal 2025); the cautious and optimistic ones use a point more and a point less. Select one to load it into the calculator. These are the model's arithmetic on those assumptions, not a forecast or a price target.
- Last close, October 26, 2026
- $18.29
- Value on these assumptions, against the last close
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- Cash flows in years 1 to 10, valued today
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- Everything after year 10, valued today
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- Plus net cash
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- Share of value from after year 10
How the value changes with two assumptions
Price-to-earnings (P/E) method
Another common way to value a company is to multiply its earnings per share by a price-to-earnings (P/E) multiple: the number of years of today's earnings an investor pays for a share. A higher multiple usually means investors expect earnings to grow. Choose a multiple, for example from similar companies, to see the value it gives.
The P/E method needs positive earnings, and Viatris' latest diluted earnings per share were negative or zero.
Balance sheet
| Fiscal year end | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cash and short-term investments | 739 | 1,295 | 1,029 | 773 | 1,363 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 23,088 | 19,274 | 18,132 | 14,047 | 14,414 |
| Net debt (negative means net cash) | 22,348 | 17,979 | 17,103 | 13,274 | 13,051 |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 5.0x | 3.9x | 4.9x | 4.6x | 96.5x |
| Debt to equity | 1.1x | 0.9x | 0.9x | 0.8x | 1.0x |
| Interest coverage | −0.1x | 2.7x | 1.3x | 0.0x | −5.7x |
| Current ratio | 1.1x | 1.6x | 1.7x | 1.6x | 1.4x |
| Quick ratio | 0.7x | 1.1x | 1.2x | 1.0x | 0.8x |
Insider trades
Over the 12 months between October 27, 2025 and October 26, 2026, 1 insider bought $2,222 of Viatris shares on the open market, and 1 insider sold $1.1 million, $809,729 of it under trading plans set up in advance.
| Date | Insider | Trade | Shares | Price | Value | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 25, 2026 | Paul CampbellSee Remarks | Sold plan | 50,076 | $16.17 | $809,729 | Form 4 |
| Mar 23, 2026 | Paul CampbellSee Remarks | Sold | 21,350 | $13.28 | $283,528 | Form 4 |
| Nov 3, 2025 | David S SimmonsDirector | Bought | 213 | $10.43 | $2,222 | Form 4 |
Piotroski F-score
The F-score counts how many of nine simple tests of profitability, funding and efficiency a company passed in a year (Piotroski, 2000). The more tests passed, the stronger the year: 8 or 9 is strong, 0 to 2 weak. Companies that report no gross profit are scored on the other eight.
| Test | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Net income is positive | Pass | Fail | Fail |
| Cash from operations is positive | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Return on assets rose | Fail | Fail | Fail |
| Cash from operations exceeds net income | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Debt fell relative to assets | Fail | Pass | Fail |
| Current ratio rose | Pass | Fail | Fail |
| Share count didn't rise | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| Gross margin rose | Pass | Fail | Fail |
| Revenue rose relative to assets | Pass | Pass | Pass |
| F-score | 7 of 9 | 5 of 9 | 4 of 9 |
| Accruals ratio | −5.8% | −6.6% | −14.8% |
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| Viatris | FY25 | −3.0% | −18.6% | 13.6% | −7.0% | 96.5x | 4 | |
| Teva Pharmaceuticals | FY25 | 4.3% | 12.5% | 6.7% | 10.5% | 4.2x | 8 | Compare |
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| Zoetis | FY25 | 2.3% | — | 24.1% | 29.3% | 1.7x | 8 | Compare |
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10 years of figures
| Fiscal year | FY16 | FY17 | FY18 | FY19 | FY20 | FY21 | FY22 | FY23 | FY24 | FY25 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income statement | ||||||||||
| Revenue | 11,077 | 11,908 | 11,434 | 11,500 | 11,946 | 17,886 | 16,263 | 15,427 | 14,739 | 14,300 |
| Revenue growth | 17.5% | 7.5% | −4.0% | 0.6% | 3.9% | 49.7% | −9.1% | −5.1% | −4.5% | −3.0% |
| Gross profit | 4,697 | 4,783 | 4,002 | 3,898 | 3,797 | 5,576 | 6,497 | 6,439 | 5,624 | 5,014 |
| Research and development | 827 | 783 | 704 | 640 | 555 | 751 | 662 | 805 | 809 | 966 |
| Operating income | 699 | 1,437 | 906 | 716 | −211 | −34 | 1,615 | 766 | 10 | −2,663 |
| Net income | 480 | 696 | 352 | 17 | −670 | −1,269 | 2,079 | 55 | −634 | −3,515 |
| Diluted EPS (US$) | 0.92 | 1.30 | 0.68 | 0.03 | −1.11 | −1.05 | 1.71 | 0.05 | −0.53 | −3.00 |
| Diluted shares (millions) | 520 | 537 | 516 | 516 | 601 | 1,209 | 1,217 | 1,207 | 1,193 | 1,171 |
| Cash flow | ||||||||||
| Cash from operations | 2,047 | 2,065 | 2,342 | 1,804 | 1,232 | 3,017 | 2,999 | 2,900 | 2,303 | 2,316 |
| Capital expenditure | 390 | 276 | 252 | 213 | 243 | 457 | 406 | 377 | 326 | 379 |
| Free cash flow | 1,657 | 1,789 | 2,090 | 1,590 | 989 | 2,560 | 2,593 | 2,523 | 1,977 | 1,937 |
| Dividends paid | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Share buybacks | 0 | 500 | 432 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 250 | 250 | 500 |
| Acquisitions | 6,482 | 167 | 66 | 149 | 416 | 277 | 0 | 668 | 350 | 0 |
| Stock-based compensation | 89 | 75 | −3 | 57 | 79 | 111 | 116 | 181 | 146 | 178 |
| Balance sheet at fiscal year end | ||||||||||
| Cash and short-term investments | 999 | 292 | 388 | 476 | 884 | 739 | 1,295 | 1,029 | 773 | 1,363 |
| Debt incl. finance leases | 15,539 | 14,721 | 13,863 | 12,722 | 25,839 | 23,088 | 19,274 | 18,132 | 14,047 | 14,414 |
| Total assets | 34,726 | 35,806 | 32,735 | 31,256 | 61,553 | 54,843 | 50,022 | 47,686 | 41,501 | 37,193 |
| Total liabilities | 23,609 | 22,499 | 20,568 | 19,372 | 38,599 | 34,350 | 28,950 | 27,218 | 22,865 | 22,482 |
| Shareholders' equity | 11,118 | 13,308 | 12,167 | 0 | 22,954 | 20,493 | 21,072 | 20,467 | 18,636 | 14,711 |
| Margins and ratios | ||||||||||
| Gross margin | 42.4% | 40.2% | 35.0% | 33.9% | 31.8% | 31.2% | 40.0% | 41.7% | 38.1% | 35.1% |
| Operating margin | 6.3% | 12.1% | 7.9% | 6.2% | −1.8% | −0.2% | 9.9% | 5.0% | 0.1% | −18.6% |
| Net margin | 4.3% | 5.8% | 3.1% | 0.1% | −5.6% | −7.1% | 12.8% | 0.3% | −4.3% | −24.6% |
| Free cash flow margin | 15.0% | 15.0% | 18.3% | 13.8% | 8.3% | 14.3% | 15.9% | 16.4% | 13.4% | 13.6% |
| Return on capital | 3.4% | 4.2% | 3.4% | 1.4% | −0.5% | −0.1% | 2.9% | 1.0% | 0.0% | −7.0% |
| Return on equity | 4.6% | 5.7% | 2.8% | 0.3% | −5.8% | −5.8% | 10.0% | 0.3% | −3.2% | −21.1% |
| Return on assets | 1.7% | 2.0% | 1.0% | 0.1% | −1.4% | −2.2% | 4.0% | 0.1% | −1.4% | −8.9% |
| Net debt to EBITDA | 6.5x | 4.5x | 4.5x | 4.5x | 12.4x | 5.0x | 3.9x | 4.9x | 4.6x | 96.5x |