Wcm Investment Management Adds $225M in Novartis AG ($NVS)

Key Points

  • Wall Street's consensus rating on $NVS is Hold and an average price target of $157.15.
  • $NVS last traded around $153.92.

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Wcm Investment Management acquired a new position in Novartis AG ($NVS), according to its most recent Form 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission. The fund owned 1,463,180 shares of Novartis AG. Wcm Investment Management's holdings in Novartis AG were worth $225.21 million as of its most recent filing.

Novartis AG Stock Up 0.1%

Shares of Novartis AG ($NVS) traded around $153.92 on Saturday, up 0.1% for the day.

Last price$153.92
Market cap$289.02B
P/E ratio23.25
Forward P/E15.50
PEG ratio3.53
Beta0.49
52-week low$121.57
52-week high$170.46
50-day MA$154.90
200-day MA$149.12
Current ratio0.86
Quick ratio0.55
Debt-to-equity1.17

Novartis AG Earnings

EPS (ttm)$6.54
Revenue (ttm)$56.69B
Revenue growth0.80%
Net margin22.50%
Return on equity30.35%
Next earningsOct 27, 2026

Novartis AG Dividend

Annual dividend$4.74
Dividend yield308%
Payout ratio71.60%
Ex-dividend dateMar 11, 2026

Analysts Set New Price Targets

ConsensusHold
Average target$157.15
High target$180
Low target$123
Analysts covering11

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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