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Hikma reiterates full year guidance following good start to the year

London, 24 April 2025 - Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (Hikma, Group), the multinational pharmaceutical group, today provides an update on current trading ahead of its Annual General Meeting.

Riad Mishlawi, Hikma's CEO, said:

"We are pleased to reiterate our Group guidance for 2025. As a global company with strong local expertise and footprint, we are leveraging our manufacturing proficiency and advanced technologies to meet the needs of our customers and patients across our markets. Looking ahead, and recognising the broader geo-political challenges, we are well-positioned. Our step up in R&D investment, alongside local manufacturing enhancements, and strategic partnerships will continue to strengthen our portfolio and pipeline and ensure sustained success."

Injectables

Our global Injectables business is delivering a solid revenue performance, driven by each of our three geographies. We are seeing strong demand for our products across our European and MENA markets, where we continue to launch new products. In North America we are benefitting from good demand for the recently launched liraglutide injection and the contribution from the newly acquired Xellia portfolio. This is helping to offset increased competition across some of our existing higher margin products.

We expect momentum to improve in the second half driven by new product launches and contract manufacturing. We are making excellent progress in the enhancements to our Bedford, Ohio facility, which will significantly increase our US-based injectables manufacturing capacity.

We continue to expect 2025 Injectables revenue to grow in the range of 7% to 9%. Phasing and mix of sales will impact margins in the first half but we continue to expect full year core operating margin to be in the mid-30s.

Branded

Our Branded business is performing well. We continue to make good progress in building our diversified portfolio of products used to treat chronic illnesses, with a focus on oncology and lifestyle diseases, supported by our global expertise and strong local market position.

Our leading presence in the MENA region, combined with the breadth of our reach and strong commercial capabilities positions us as a partner of choice. We recently signed an exclusive licensing agreement with pharmaand GmbH, a global pharmaceutical business based in Vienna, to commercialise rucaparib, an innovative small-molecule oral oncology therapy, across the MENA region. This is in line with our strategy to be a leading provider of oncology medicines in the region.

We continue to expect 2025 Branded revenue to grow in the range of 6% to 7% in constant currency, with core EBIT margin close to 25%.

Generics

In our Generics business we are seeing solid demand across our differentiated portfolio, particularly for our nasal and inhalation products. By focusing on reliability of supply, high service levels and leveraging our US manufacturing facility, we are successfully securing longer-term customer awards.

We continue to strengthen our R&D capabilities, including building a team in our new Zagreb, Croatia R&D centre, and are progressing with key development projects that will help strengthen our portfolio and pipeline for the medium to long-term. We are progressing well preparing our Columbus facility to accommodate our recently announced contract manufacturing partnership, and we are seeing increasing demand for our high-quality US-based manufacturing services.

We continue to expect Generics revenue to be broadly flat in 2025 with core operating margin of around 16%.

International trade policies

We are confident that our significant and expanding US manufacturing footprint, which supplies the majority of our US sales, combined with our focus on quality and reliability of supply, position us well and underpin our resilience in the current environment. We do import some finished products into the US as well as capital equipment, and we have a diversified global supply chain for our raw and packaging materials, including active pharmaceutical ingredients (API).

Full year outlook unchanged

We continue to expect Group revenue to grow in the range of 4% to 6% and for core operating profit to be in the range of $730 million to $770 million in 2025. Group core operating profit growth, which is around 4% at the midpoint of guidance, will be weighted to the second half. We are monitoring the evolving tariff backdrop and will look to remain agile in responding to both opportunities and impacts where possible, but have not reflected an impact from tariffs in our full year outlook.

Final dividend

Subject to approval at today's Annual General Meeting, we will be paying a final dividend of 48 cents per share. The final dividend brings the total dividend for the full year 2024 to 80 cents per share, an increase of 11% on 2023.

We will announce our interim results for the six months ended 30 June 2025 on 7 August 2025.

Further information

Hikma will hold a live Q&A conference call for sell-side analysts at 9:00am BST. A recording and transcript will be made available on the Company's website.

To join via conference call please dial:

United Kingdom (Local): +44 20 3936 2999United Kingdom (Toll-Free): +44 800 358 1035 Global Dial-In Numbers Access Code: 558001

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About Hikma

Hikma Pharmaceuticals PLC (LSE: HIK) (NASDAQ Dubai: HIK) (OTC: HKMPY) (LEI:549300BNS685UXH4JI75) (rated BBB-/stable S&P and BBB-/positive Fitch)

Hikma helps put better health within reach every day for millions of people around the world. For more than 45 years, we've been creating high-quality medicines and making them accessible to the people who need them. Headquartered in the UK, we are a global company with a local presence across North America, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Europe, and we use our unique insight and expertise to transform cutting-edge science into innovative solutions that transform people's lives. We're committed to our customers, and the people they care for, and by thinking creatively and acting practically, we provide them with a broad range of branded and non-branded generic medicines. Together, our 9,500 colleagues are helping to shape a healthier world that enriches all our communities. We are a leading licensing partner, and through our venture capital arm, are helping bring innovative health technologies to people around the world. For more information, please visit: www.hikma.com

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Forward-looking statements

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