Novo Nordisk

kr 269.45As of Sun 8 Nov 2026, 12:00 UTC
CPH:NOVO-BHealthcare
Country Denmark
PE (Fwd) 11.89
TSR 10Y CAGR 10.94%
Div yield 4.34%
ROE 58.38%
Drug Manufacturers (General)
Beta (5Y) 0.37
PE TTM 10.53
TSR TTM (10.06%)
Mkt cap kr 1.188T
ROIC 45.97%
Value
Quality
Moat
Consensus
Reference
kr 288
6.70%
117.02%
Hold 5|0|15|1|5
4Q25
1Q26
2Q26
3Q26
Earnings per sharekr
6.04
10.91
4.73
3.79
(4.66%)
67.08%
(20.61%)
(15.78%)
Revenuekr B
79.14
96.82
78.49
79.19
(7.63%)
23.99%
2.12%
5.63%
TTM
FYE 31 Dec DKK
FY2016
FY2017
FY2018
FY2019
FY2020
FY2021
FY2022
FY2023
FY2024
FY2025
FY2026E
Trend
5Y
10Y
Peers
333.6
Revenuekr B
111.8
111.7
111.8
122.0
126.9
140.8
177.0
232.3
290.4
309.1
308.4
19.48%
11.96%
63
5.72
Revenue growth%
—
(0.08)
0.12
9.11
4.04
10.91
25.68
31.26
25.03
6.43
(0.22)
25.03
9.11
40
82.30
Gross margin%
84.63
84.21
84.25
83.54
83.51
83.20
83.94
84.79
85.00
82.41
80.07
83.94
84.08
93
47.94
Operating margin%
43.33
43.84
42.25
43.01
42.64
42.06
42.73
45.08
47.83
45.50
41.11
45.08
43.17
97
33.92
Net margin%
33.93
34.14
34.54
31.92
33.19
33.92
31.38
36.03
34.78
33.14
32.74
33.92
33.92
97
10.53
P/E ratio (avg)x
20.64
18.28
19.15
20.89
23.34
26.88
32.08
31.71
36.60
17.44
11.96
31.71
22.11
100
8.099
EV/EBITx
15.74
13.89
15.34
15.29
18.13
21.83
23.58
25.31
27.16
13.45
10.16
23.58
16.93
100
6.12
FCF yield (avg)%
5.27
4.81
4.73
4.65
4.69
3.79
3.75
3.13
2.00
3.30
5.31
3.30
4.22
73
21.87
FCF margin%
36.90
30.03
31.28
31.02
36.34
34.56
37.72
35.78
25.41
19.08
20.40
34.56
32.92
63
0.645
FCF / Net incomex
1.088
0.880
0.906
0.972
1.095
1.019
1.202
0.993
0.731
0.576
0.623
0.993
0.982
4
45.97
ROIC%
154.96
133.51
110.50
101.07
79.85
67.98
73.42
88.56
68.22
42.60
31.01
68.22
84.20
90
58.38
Return on equity%
83.78
80.20
76.00
71.19
69.70
71.24
72.00
88.07
80.78
60.70
45.02
72.00
74.00
93
18.89
Return on assets%
38.88
37.25
34.87
31.01
29.08
24.55
23.01
26.61
21.69
18.87
16.50
23.01
27.84
93
25.59
EPSkr
7.48
7.69
7.97
8.19
9.00
10.37
12.22
18.62
22.63
23.03
22.53
20.66%
13.31%
—
9.65
EPS growth%
—
2.84
3.55
2.77
9.97
15.15
17.84
52.38
21.54
1.78
(2.15)
17.84
9.97
46
49.24
Bookvalue per shkr
8.93
10.05
10.69
12.11
13.53
15.36
18.37
23.71
32.15
43.63
52.53
26.38%
19.27%
—
16.50
FCF per sharekr
8.14
6.77
7.21
7.96
9.86
10.57
14.69
18.49
16.54
13.26
14.32
6.11%
5.57%
—
11.70
Dividend per shkr
3.80
3.92
4.08
4.17
4.55
5.20
6.20
9.40
11.40
11.70
11.31
20.79%
13.31%
—
4.34
Div yield (avg)%
2.46
2.79
2.67
2.44
2.16
1.87
1.58
1.59
1.38
2.91
4.20
1.59
2.30
93
—
Payout ratio%
50.80
51.01
51.16
50.98
50.53
50.14
50.74
50.48
50.38
50.80
49.18
50.48
50.77
38
4.409
Shares (diluted)B
5.069
4.956
4.849
4.757
4.680
4.606
4.545
◇4.495
4.463
4.448
4.392
(1.01%)
(1.44%)
57
0.54
Buyback yield%
—
2.23
2.17
1.89
1.63
1.58
1.34
1.10
0.71
0.34
1.25
1.10
1.58
57
0.617
D/E ratiox
—
0.034
—
0.078
0.164
0.377
0.309
0.253
0.716
0.675
0.583
0.377
0.208
48
1,296
Enterprise valuekr B
762.4
680.0
724.6
802.6
981.2
1,293
1,783
2,650
3,773
1,891
1,288
14.02%
10.62%
67
117.7
LT debtkr B
—
—
—
3.009
2.897
12.96
24.32
20.53
89.67
118.9
117.7
110.22%
84.57%
50
Peers (US$177.1B)
Cap (US$)
PE
33.28B
45.84x
17.06B
37.26x
16.87B
19.19x
167.5B
41.88x
Capital
TTM
5Y
10Y
Leveragex
0.512
0.144
(0.035)
EBIT/Intx
—
193.2
202.5
Own earn%
—
29.74
30.91
Sh yield%
4.88
2.92
3.44
Owners
Insiders/Inst%
0.01
27.70
Short interest%
—
SBC / revenue%
0.43
Record
10Y
Profitable years
10/10
Revenue growth years
8/9
EPS growth years
9/9
Dividend streakyrs
8
Op margin range%
42–48
$1 testx
4.2
Incr. ROIC%
26
Revenue by segment
Revenue
Trend
6Y CAGR
Rel growth
GLP-1
49.25%
28.87%
1.81×
Obesity Care
26.64%
-
-
Insulin
17.19%
(1.92%)
0.35×
Revenue by region
Top 3 87%
Trend
United States
56.03%
EUCAN
21.38%
Emerging Markets
9.85%
Reinvestment returns
10Y median
Trend
Reinvestment rate
22.38%
Return on capital
84.20%
Spread over hurdle
77.92%
Reference Value (DCF, expected value) kr 585 117.02%
Price kr 269.45 · central 50% range kr 467.63 – kr 734.27 · All values in DKK

What the business is worth from its cash flows, growth and risk: the probability-weighted average (expected value) of 2,000 simulated outcomes, with the discount rate at its estimate. The median and the base case, the model run with every input at its estimate, sit beside it.

MeasureValue
Expected value (headline)kr 585
Median of the simulated valueskr 578.45
Base case (deterministic run)kr 577.77

DCF: Discounted free cash flow to the firm — base case kr 577.77 (range width moderate)

AssumptionValueSource
Risk-free rate3.29%3.29% latest 10Y govt bond (OECD 10Y DNK, 2026-09) - 0.00% sovereign default spread
Equity risk premium3.74%mature 3.25% (Damodaran implied ERP, Oct 2026, less the US large caps' country risk 0.67%) + country risk 0.49% weighted by FY2025 revenue (United States 56%, Emerging Markets 10%, Asia Pacific 7%, China 6%, other; Damodaran country risk, Jul 2026)
Industry (own tables)Drug Manufacturers - General, Western Europeown operating tables, Drug Manufacturers - General: Western Europe n=12 > global n=61 [ours: operating_margin_sd, unlevered_beta; the rest Damodaran industry averages, Jan 2026, Drugs (Pharmaceutical), Europe]
Unlevered beta (industry)0.69corrected for cash: own operating tables, Drug Manufacturers - General: Western Europe n=12 > global n=61 [ours: operating_margin_sd, unlevered_beta; the rest Damodaran industry averages, Jan 2026, Drugs (Pharmaceutical), Europe]
own_beta117.90%its own beta against its home market (2/3 two-year + 1/3 five-year regression, or the one that exists), standard error 0.24
Beta0.90unlevered 0.69 x (1 + (1 - 20% tax (median effective rate, 5y, clamped 0-35%, at most the marginal rate)) x 0.11 market D/E); own-beta mix: 34% of the way from 0.76 to its own 1.18
Cost of equity6.66%Rf + beta x ERP (CAPM)
Tax rate (effective)20.07%median effective rate, 5y, clamped 0-35%; years 1-5, then to the year-10 rate (tax_end) by year 10
Tax rate (marginal)22.00%country marginal rate (Damodaran)
Tax rate (year 10 and terminal)20.55%the marginal rate 22.0% less 75% of its gap to the effective rate 20.1%: a rate under it lasts
Cost of debt3.69%Rf + 0.40% Aaa/AAA spread (no interest expense: infinite coverage, the top rating: Damodaran synthetic ratings, January 2026, large non-financial table)
Debt weight10.13%debt / (debt + market cap)
WACC (years 1-5)6.28%E/V x Re + D/V x Rd x (1 - 20% tax (median effective rate, 5y, clamped 0-35%, at most the marginal rate)); years 1-5
Cost of equity (mature)7.03%Rf + ERP (beta 1: a mature company)
Debt weight (mature)20.79%the market's debt / capital (our screener: debt / market value of 25,085 operating companies, all markets)
Cost of debt (mature)4.40%Rf + 1.11% Baa2/BBB spread (the market's rating: Damodaran Total Market (without financials), Global D/E and US cost of debt, Jan 2026)
WACC (mature, after year 10)6.30%mature Re, debt weight and Rd, year-10 tax; reached in year 10
Terminal growth3.29%= risk-free rate (long-run nominal growth)
Revenue growth (year 1)(0.22%)consensus revenue, year 1
Revenue growth (fade start)5.25%consensus revenue growth in year 3, fading to terminal growth by year 10
Operating margin (last fiscal year)45.50%last fiscal year operating margin
Operating margin (year 1, consensus)41.11%consensus operating income / revenue, year 1
Operating margin (year 2, consensus)40.68%consensus operating income / revenue, year 2
Operating margin (year 3, consensus)40.77%consensus operating income / revenue, year 3
Operating margin (target)40.77%consensus operating income / revenue, year 3; reached in year 5, a straight line from the year-3 consensus margin
Reinvestment, % of revenue (model, consensus years)2.23%new revenue / sales-to-capital 0.87, as a share of revenue over years 1-3
Reinvestment, % of revenue (consensus years)9.52%consensus reinvestment / revenue over years 1-3; reinvestment = EBIT(1-t) - after-tax net interest + stock-based comp - consensus FCF (stock-based comp 0.8% of revenue (median of 5y)); years 1-3
Sales to capital (to year 5)0.87marginal: Δ revenue / Δ operating capital (less goodwill), FY2021-FY2025; 0.3 of its 4 years down-weighted for acquisitions; years 4-5
Share of year 1 still to come14.58%valued 2026-11-08, 85% of year 1 (the fiscal year after 2025-12-31) past: year t discounted over t - 1 + 0.15 years; 25% of year 1's cash flow counted, the rest is in the 2026-09-30 balance sheet's cash and debt
Return on new capital (terminal)11.90%stable WACC + 80% of the own median after-tax ROIC's excess over it (5y, 62.3%), the excess at most 7%
Sales to capital (year 10)0.37RONIC 11.9% / (target margin 40.8% x (1 - 20.6% year-10 tax)): new capital earns the terminal return; a straight line from the years 1-5 ratio 0.87 over years 6-10
Net debtkr 88.13Btotal debt - cash
Long-term investmentskr 2.501Blong-term investments at book value, added: their income is not in FCFF
Return on capital (year 10)25.83%year-10 EBIT(1-t) / (last operating capital, less goodwill, + 10 years' reinvestment); terminal RONIC 11.9%
Industry operating margin, bottom quartile7.91%Q1 of operating margin across 255 companies in the industry (our screener)
Industry operating margin, top quartile24.99%Q3 of operating margin, same 255 companies; a warning needs a value beyond the fences -18% to 51% (1.5 x IQR)
Industry ROIC, bottom quartile3.33%Q1 of ROIC (5-year average, else latest) across 263 companies in the industry (our screener)
Industry ROIC, top quartile18.60%Q3 of ROIC (5-year average, else latest), same 263 companies; a warning needs a value beyond the fences -20% to 41% (1.5 x IQR)
Own ROIC (above the industry's range)59.24%its own return on invested capital (median of 5y) (59%) is above the peer range of its industry (Q1 3%, Q3 19%, fences -20% to 41%, n=263)
Spread: consensus revenue (simulation)5.26%one lognormal shock on the 3 consensus years; year-3 spread: analyst high/low range / d2(analysts) x sqrt(1 + 1/analysts) (uncalibrated: not yet checked against realised forecast errors)
Spread: revenue growth (simulation)6.49%revenue growth after consensus: standard deviation of own year-on-year revenue growth, 5-year rolling averages (9y); floored at -10%, above 25% compressed smoothly to at most 35%
Spread: target margin (simulation)1.00%target operating margin: floor 1% (standard deviation of own operating margin, 5-year rolling averages (10y): 0.8%)
Spread: discount rate (simulation)1.00%discount rate: one shift of the whole schedule (today's and the mature rate together), standard deviation of the estimate's own error (beta, equity risk premium); terminal growth stays MIN_SPREAD below it
Spread: own ROIC behind the terminal (simulation)1.00%own after-tax ROIC behind the terminal RONIC (the terminal rule applied to each draw with the draw's stable WACC: nothing at or below it, the excess at most 7%): floor 1% (own after-tax ROIC, held between the stable WACC and its cap: single-year standard deviation / √5 (5y): 0.0%)
YearRevenueGrowthOp. marginTaxEBIT(1-t)ReinvestmentFCFFCost of capitalDiscountPresent value
1kr 308.4B(0.22%)41.11%20.07%kr 101.3Bkr 29.36Bkr 71.97B6.28%0.99kr 18.02B
2kr 311.1B0.88%40.68%20.07%kr 101.2Bkr 29.62Bkr 71.54B6.28%0.93kr 66.71B
3kr 327.4B5.25%40.77%20.07%kr 106.7Bkr 31.18Bkr 75.51B6.28%0.88kr 66.26B
4kr 343.7B4.97%40.77%20.07%kr 112.0Bkr 18.76Bkr 93.23B6.28%0.83kr 76.97B
5kr 359.8B4.69%40.77%20.07%kr 117.2Bkr 18.58Bkr 98.66B6.28%0.78kr 76.63B
6kr 375.6B4.41%40.77%20.17%kr 122.3Bkr 20.67Bkr 101.6B6.29%0.73kr 74.24B
7kr 391.2B4.13%40.77%20.26%kr 127.2Bkr 23.24Bkr 103.9B6.29%0.69kr 71.45B
8kr 406.2B3.85%40.77%20.36%kr 131.9Bkr 26.53Bkr 105.4B6.29%0.65kr 68.15B
9kr 420.7B3.57%40.77%20.46%kr 136.4Bkr 31.01Bkr 105.4B6.29%0.61kr 64.15B
10kr 434.5B3.29%40.77%20.55%kr 140.7Bkr 37.65Bkr 103.1B6.30%0.57kr 59.02B

Terminal value: 75.73% of the DCF value.

Reference Range, central 50% (model-implied, not yet calibrated): kr 467.63 to kr 734.27. Half of 2,000 simulated values fall inside it (median kr 578.45); 100% are above today's price. The central 80% range, the 10th to 90th percentile, is kr 391.67 to kr 898.86.

Calibration: none. We have not yet tested how often real outcomes land inside ranges like this, so it is not a confidence interval and not a hit rate. It shows how far our inputs could move the value.

Simulated: consensus revenue, revenue growth after consensus, target operating margin, own return on capital behind the terminal, varied within the analysts' estimate range or the company's own history. The discount rate is drawn too, one standard deviation of 1 percentage point: it prices the cash flows' risk, but our estimate of it (beta, equity risk premium) is uncertain in its own right. Terminal growth stays below it. The base case is the run at the estimated rate, so it sits below the median of the draws (a lower rate adds more value than a higher one takes). The range width (narrow, moderate or wide) and the SE Grade's reading of uncertainty use the 80% range with the rate at its estimate, so they compare companies on their own cash-flow uncertainty (the rate's error is common to all).

What the price assumes

A market-expectations diagnostic. It does not change the Reference Value.

The price needs revenue to grow 0.6x in 10 years; judgement base rates put that at or below the typical (median) outcome for very large companies with revenue growing 15-30% a year (round values from survivors, not measured).

To justify today's priceNeededBase case
Revenue growth, years 1-5(8.93%)
Year-10 revenue vs today0.6x1.4x
Operating margin from year 518.60%40.77%

Each row changes one thing and keeps the rest of the base case. Base rates: judgement, survivor-biased, replace when point-in-time panel exists.

Indicated Value: how the market prices peers

MethodValueRangeHow
industry P/Ekr 679.56kr 241.80 – kr 988.05TTM EPS x trailing 27.6x: median of 10 peers (Healthcare sector, Denmark) moved to 3-year forward EPS growth 2% (their median 16%; ln multiple +2.14 per unit of growth), SA screener, 2026-11-10; FY1 EPS x forward 29.0x: median of 10 peers (Healthcare sector, Denmark), SA screener, 2026-11-10; mean of the two
own P/E historykr 508.39kr 398.59 – kr 809.60FY1 EPS (reported basis) x 10Y median P/E 22.1x
industry EV/EBITDAkr 527.13kr 164.25 – kr 1,056(TTM EBITDA x 14.0x: median of 11 peers (Healthcare sector, Denmark) moved to 3-year forward revenue growth 2% (their median 10%; ln multiple +2.73 per unit of growth), SA screener, 2026-11-10) - net debt

What similar companies (and this one, historically) sell for. A different question from intrinsic value, so not weighted into it. With three or more methods, one more than 3× off their median is left out. Range: the middle 80% of each method's simulated values, with the peer multiple read across the peer group's spread, widened so it holds 80% of peers' actual multiples (own multiples: across own history), and FY1 EPS across the analysts' range. For banks and capital markets firms, industry P/B is read off their return on equity, along the line their peers' P/B follows, when that line fits well enough.

Equity risk premiums, industry betas and returns: Damodaran; bond yields: OECD (snapshot 2026-10-25). Peer betas and multiples, analyst consensus: stockanalysis.com. An estimate, not advice.

SE Grade ★★★

How we got the stars: the business (Quality and Moat), the price's move of at most one notch, and the rank cap.

Business
3★
—
Quality
ROIC − WACC
+49pp
FCF / net income
85%
Net debt / EBITDA
0.5x
Altman Z''
3.0
Share count growth
−1.0%/yr
Moat
ROIC > 15%
10/10y
Median ROIC (10Y)
84%
Margin stability
σ 0.5%
Operating margin stability
σ 1.0%
$1 retained test
$4.18
5Y ROIC rank in peers
100%
Price position
Fair value
+122%
P/E vs 10Y median
−53%
Price band
±36%
—
Price notch
+0.7
—