Loomis Sayles & Co L P Reduces $17M in Novartis AG ($NVS)

Key Points

  • Loomis Sayles & Co L P changed its Novartis AG ($NVS) stake by 2.0% last quarter, cutting to 5,426,100 shares worth $835.19 million.
  • Wall Street's consensus rating on $NVS is Hold and an average price target of $153.87.
  • $NVS last traded around $153.92.

Loomis Sayles & Co L P trimmed its position in Novartis AG ($NVS) by 2.0% during the most recent quarter, according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 5,426,100 shares of Novartis AG after selling 108,115 shares during the quarter. Loomis Sayles & Co L P's holdings in Novartis AG were worth $835.19 million as of its most recent filing.

Novartis AG ($NVS) Stock

Last price$153.92
Market cap$292.07B
P/E ratio21.93
Forward P/E15.41
PEG ratio4.15
Beta0.49
52-week low$112.34
52-week high$170.46
50-day MA$149.18
200-day MA$141.77
Current ratio0.85
Quick ratio0.53
Debt-to-equity1.21

Novartis AG Earnings

EPS (ttm)$6.98
Revenue (ttm)$56.58B
Revenue growth-0.7%
Net margin23.9%
Return on equity34.9%
Next earningsJul 21, 2026

Novartis AG Dividend

Annual dividend$4.74
Dividend yield310.00%
Payout ratio67.9%
Ex-dividend dateMar 11, 2026

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ConsensusHold
Average target$153.87
High target$180.00
Low target$123.00
Analysts covering10

About Novartis AG

Novartis AG researches, develops, manufactures, distributes, markets, and sells pharmaceutical medicines in Switzerland and internationally. The company offers Entresto, an angiotensin receptorneprilysin inhibitor to treat symptomatic chronic heart failure with reduced ejection fraction (HFrEF); Cosentyx to treat plaque psoriasis, pso riatic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, and nonradiographic axial spondy loarthritis; Kisqali, a selective oral cyclin dependent inhibitor of kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6); Promacta/Revolade to treat immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), thrombocytopenia, and patients with severe aplastic anemia (SAA); Tafinlar+Mekinist, an oral combination therapy to treat patients with certain types of cancers; and Jakavi for the treatment of myelofibrosis, polycythemia vera, and acute or chronic graftversushost disease (GvHD). It also provides Tasigna to treat philadelphia chromosomepositive chronic myeloid leukemia in the chronic and/or accelerated phase; Xolair for the treatment of allergic asthma and nasal polyps or severe chronic rhinosi nusitis with nasal polyps; Ilaris to treat fever syndromes, Still's disease, and acute gouty arthritis; Pluvicto to treat prostatespecific membrane anti genpositive metastatic castrationresistant prostate cancer; Sandostatin SC and Sandostatin LAR to treat acromegaly carcinoid tumors and other types of functional gastro intestinal and pancreatic neuroendocrine tumors; Zolgensma for the treatment of genetic root cause of spinal muscular atrophy; Lucentis; Leqvio to reduce LDL cholesterol; Lutathera; Scemblix; and Fabhalta. The company focuses on therapeutic areas, such as cardiovascular, renal and metabolic, immunology, neuroscience, oncology, and hematology. It has a license and collaboration agreement with Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. to develop, manufacture, and commercialize Leqvio (inclisiran), a therapy to reduce LDL cholesterol. Novartis AG was incorporated in 1996 and is headquartered in Basel, Switzerland.

ExchangeNYSE
SectorHealthcare
IndustryDrug Manufacturers - General
HeadquartersBasel, Switzerland
CEODr. Vasant Narasimhan M.D.
Employees75,267

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