Novartis (NOVN)
Basel-based pharmaceutical company created by the 1996 merger of Ciba-Geigy and Sandoz, now a pure-play innovative-medicines business after spinning off Alcon and Sandoz. Key franchises include cardiovascular, oncology and immunology drugs.
- Legal name
- Novartis AG
- Ticker
- NOVN
- Exchange
- SIX Swiss Exchange · MIC XSWX
- Country
- Switzerland
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Pharmaceuticals
- Market cap ≈
- $292.4bn — computed, not copied: 1.901bn shares × 123.74 CHF close on 2026-08-28
- Reporting currency
- CHF
- Founded
- 1996
- Website
- www.novartis.com
- LEI
- 5493007HIVTX6SY6XD66 (GLEIF)
- ISIN
- CH0012005267 (check digit validated)
- FIGI
- BBG001SD31N7 (share class, OpenFIGI)
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Sector peers — Healthcare
Eli Lilly · UnitedHealth Group · Johnson & Johnson · AbbVie · Merck & Co. · Thermo Fisher Scientific
Compare: NOVN vs LLY · NOVN vs UNH · NOVN vs JNJ
How this market cap is arrived at
| Shares outstanding | 1,900,714,840 |
| Basis | outstanding |
| As of | 2026-06-30 |
| Source | Novartis Q2/H1 2026 Condensed Interim Financial Report, filed as SEC Form 6-K Exhibit 99.2, "Share... |
| Price | 123.74 CHF · NOVN.SW · close 2026-08-28 |
| Venue | Swiss |
| Converted at | ECB euro reference rates, 2026-08-28 |
| Market cap | $292.4bn |
This is shares outstanding excluding treasury shares - the basis Novartis itself uses (footnote: "Market capitalization is calculated based on the number of shares outstanding (excluding treasury shares)"), and it reconciles with the company's own published market cap. Do NOT use the registered/issued count: 2,112,421,867 registered shares of CHF 0.49 nominal at 31 Dec 2025, of which about 9.6% were held in treasury - using the issued number would overstate market cap by roughly 10%.
Share counts move on a filing cadence, prices move continuously — so this figure is exact only as of the two dates above, and we publish both rather than a single undated number. This company is quoted here through a depositary receipt (NVS), where one receipt represents 1 ordinary share; the price is put on an ordinary-share basis before it meets the share count. Provenance.
Identifier crosswalk
| Standard | Value | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Ticker | NOVN | Venue-local shorthand — ambiguous across markets |
| MIC | XSWX | ISO 10383 — the venue |
| ISIN | CH0012005267 | ISO 6166 — the security |
| LEI | 5493007HIVTX6SY6XD66 | ISO 17442 — the legal entity |
| FIGI | BBG001SD31N7 | OpenFIGI — instrument, share class |
5 naming systems for one entity — only codes we actually hold are listed, with no gaps filled by guessing. Sources: LEI from GLEIF (CC0), ISIN read from the issuer's own primary listing document, with its ISO 6166 check digit validated, FIGI from OpenFIGI (open standard), MIC from the ISO 10383 registry. Each linked code opens its reverse-lookup page; the validator checks any code's check digit. seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30.
Approximate reference values from public sources · seed-0.7 · marketcap-1 · 2026-08-30 · not real-time. See data & methodology.
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