The following is a list of independent pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical companies listed on a stock exchange (as indicated) with current
market capitalization
Market capitalization, sometimes referred to as market cap, is the total value of a publicly traded company's outstanding common shares owned by stockholders.
Market capitalization is equal to the market price per common share multiplied by ...
of at least US$10 billion, ranked by their market capitalization.
It does not include biotechnology companies that are currently owned by, or form a part of, larger pharmaceutical groups.
Ranking by market capitalization
The following table lists the largest biotechnology and pharmaceutical companies ranked by market capitalization in billion USD dollars. The change column indicates the company's relative position in this list compared to their relative position in the preceding year; i.e., an increase would be moving closer to rank 1 and vice versa.
* – Biotechnology company
* – Pharmaceutical company
See also
*
List of largest biomedical companies by revenue
References
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Biotechnology
Biotechnology is the integration of natural sciences and engineering sciences in order to achieve the application of organisms, cells, parts thereof and molecular analogues for products and services. The term ''biotechnology'' was first used by ...