Gilead Sciences SWOT & PESTLE Analysis
COMPANY PROFILE -Gilead Sciences
Business Sector :Pharmaceutics and Biotechnology
Operating Geography :United States, North America, Global
About Gilead Sciences :
Gilead Sciences, Inc. is an American biopharmaceutical company that focuses primarily on antiviral drugs used in the treatment of Hepatitis B, Hepatitis C, HIV and influenza, including Sovaldi and Harvoni. It is headquartered at Foster City, California, United States. It was founded in June 1987 by Michael L. Riordan with the help of three core scientific advisers, Peter Dervan (Caltech), Doug Melton (Harvard) and Harold M. Weintraub (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre). The company has expanded to multiple drug segments through a series of strategic acquisitions starting from NeXstar Pharmaceuticals, Corus Pharma Inc. (2006), Raylo Chemicals Inc. (2006), CV Therapeutics (2009), CGI Pharmaceuticals (2010). The company made three acquisitions alone in 2015 namely: Phenex Pharmaceuticals, EpiTherapeutics and Galapagos NV. The company’s product portfolio includes more than 25 products including complete treatment regiments for HIV and Hepatitis C virus.Gilead Sciences mission statement reads “To discover, develop and commercialize innovative therapeutics in the areas of unmet medical needs that improve patient care.” The research based, biopharmaceutical Company’s vision is “To advance therapeutics against life-threatening diseases worldwide.” Gilead Sciences, Inc’s USP or unique selling proposition lies in its strive to help improve the lives of people with life-threatening illnesses around the world by researching, developing and commercializing anti-virial drugs for the treatment of HIV, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, and influenza, including Harvoni and Sovaldi.
Gilead Sciences Revenue :
$ 22.1 Billion – FY ending 31st Dec 2018
$ 26.1 Billion – FY ending 31st Dec 2017
Competitive Analysis of Gilead Sciences
1. Strong Brand Portfolio 2. Research and Development Orientation 3. Investments in process automation 4. Strategic Acquisitions and mergers | 1. High dependence on HIV and HCV sales 2. Inability to accurately predict demand |
1. High Growth potential of Biopharmaceutical industry 2. Usage of Industry 4.0 Technology | 1. Patent Protection and Certain Challenges 2. Regulation of Manufacturing Process 3. Complexity of Biopharma supply chain and operations 4. High competition in the industry |
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Detailed SWOT Analysis of Gilead Sciences
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Opportunity
1. High Growth potential of Biopharmaceutical Industry: The biopharma sector has undergone momentous growth in the recent decade. It has scaled a 6,250 % growth, climbing from an annual revenue of approximately $ 4.4 billion in 1990 to $ 275 billion in 2018. This sector can be considered matured and the trends are relatively stable. The advantage of having a highly regulated market is that this environment is relatively easy to track over time, and the data can be used to access future movement more accurately. The ongoing industry trends support an optimistic view of this sector and it includes: more biopharma facilities worldwide (both major markets and Asia), more revenue and added-value for patients from innovations and processes. It also opens new opportunities of flexible manufacturing facilities including manufacturing of multiple products, automation, process control and monitoring. The current future of this industry is exciting with new technologies and markets, such as biosimilars, continuous processing, cellular and gene therapies and many more.
2. Usage of Industry 4.0 Technology: The biopharma manufacturing industry must become more streamlined and cost efficient to tackle increasing globalization and complex regulations. Adoption of Industry 4.0 technologies can provide a potential solution and there is scope to scale up implementation of these technologies in this sector. However, there are also associated challenges which can be attributed to implementation challenges in highly regulated markets, lack of knowledge required for implementation of these technologies in a scalable way within the existing systems and limited visibility of what facility should look like to be classified as best in class and if value exists for operations. However, to progress forward and implement Industry 4.0 technologies a number of factors needs to be addressed, like, risk mitigation of these technologies in highly regulated environment, quality improvement and assurance to meet the regulatory scrutiny, flexibility and scalability as per the requirement, increased productivity and increased scale-up speed and speed to market and most importantly increased innovation possibilities with the availability of new technology.
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References used in Gilead Sciences Analysis Report
1. Gilead Sciences annual report 2018 - http://www.annualreports.com/HostedData/AnnualReports/PDF/NASDAQ_GILD_2018.pdf
2. Gilead Sciences company website - https://www.gilead.com/
3. Gilead Sciences company profile - https://money.cnn.com/quote/profile/profile.html?symb=GILD
4. What to Expect from Johnson & Johnson and Gilead Sciences’ EPS - https://articles2.marketrealist.com/2019/06/what-to-expect-from-johnson-johnson-and-gilead-sciences-eps/
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