IQVIA
Sector unknown·IQV · USA (SEC 10-K)·Fiscal year to 31/12/2025
Business Our Company IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.
Exposure profile
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In their own words
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Artificial intelligence
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Significant technological change could render certain of our services obsolete. If our investments in AI‑enabled services and offerings do not keep pace with rapid innovation by competitors or technology providers, or if alternative AI solutions evolve more quickly or are more cost‑effective than our offerings, certain of our existing services or platforms could become less competitive or economically viable. Moreover, the introduction of new services embodying new technologies could render certain of our existing services obsolete. Our continued success will depend on our ability to adapt to changing technologies, manage and process ever-increasing amounts of data and information and improve the performance, features and reliability of our services in response to changing client and industry demands.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In addition, the emergence of the use of Real World Evidence and the advancements in new approaches such as machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), including generative, agentic and foundation models that are increasingly accessible through third‑party or open‑source platforms, that capitalize on the availability of large data sets may reduce the time and costs of the discovery and development process, may allow our clients to more readily perform for themselves clinical development tasks and services that we have typically provided, may cause even greater price competition and/or reduce the perceived differentiation of certain of our information, analytics and insight‑based offerings. If customers are able to obtain comparable insights through alternative AI‑enabled solutions, develop such capabilities internally, or shift spending toward lower‑cost providers, demand for certain of our services and offerings could decline, pricing pressure could increase, and our margins and growth prospects could be adversely affected.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“IQVIA’s portfolio of solutions are powered by IQVIA Connected Intelligence™ to deliver actionable insights and services built on high-quality health data, Healthcare-grade AI®, advanced analytics, the latest technologies and extensive domain expertise. We are committed to using artificial intelligence ("AI") responsibly, with AI-powered capabilities built on best-in-class approaches to privacy, regulatory compliance and patient safety, and delivering AI to the high standards of trust, scalability and precision demanded by the industry.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Our Growth Strategy We believe we are well positioned for continued growth across the markets we serve. Our strategy for achieving growth includes: Continue to innovate through our IQVIA Connected Intelligence by leveraging our information, advanced analytics, transformative technology and significant domain expertise.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Artificial Intelligence Artificial Intelligence ("AI") presents opportunities for smarter healthcare. It can enable the industry to better understand patient needs, identify new approaches to treatment, and scale and democratize access to medicine.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“At IQVIA, our people represent some of the smartest minds working at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and data science – complex domains that are constantly evolving. Our work demands continuous learning, and our people show a high level of commitment to upskilling.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“As demand for AI capabilities in healthcare evolves, building AI literacy has become essential for everyone at IQVIA. We are committed to providing employees with the resources needed to develop their careers and leverage the AI applications we are deploying across our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We are pursuing business transformation initiatives to update technology, increase innovation and obtain operating efficiencies, including through the use of AI. As part of these initiatives, which include accelerating site start-up timelines and improving our customer buying experience, we seek to improve our productivity, flexibility, quality, functionality and cost savings by investing in the development and implementation of global platforms and integration of our business processes and functions to achieve economies of scale.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We continue to invest significantly in growth opportunities, including the development and acquisition of new data, technologies and services to meet our clients’ needs. For example, we are expanding our services and technology offerings, such as the development of a cloud-based platform with a growing number of applications to support commercial and clinical operations for life sciences companies (e.g., multi-channel marketing, marketing campaign management, customer relationship management, incentive compensation management, targeting and segmentation, performance management, site engagement payments, trial master file, risk based monitoring, in-home nursing and other services, clinical trial management and decentralized trials and other applications).”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We are also investing significantly in our AI strategy by launching AI-enabled solutions across our business units, developing AI agents for internal use and external offerings, and developing relationships with key strategic partners across the health-tech sector to foster collaboration and facilitate interoperability amongst AI-enabled solutions.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We operate in businesses that require sophisticated computer systems and software for data collection, data processing, cloud-based platforms, analytics, cryptography, statistical projections and forecasting, mobile computing, social media analytics and other applications and technologies. We are building AI technologies into internal applications and solutions we use with others, including clients; we expect the use of AI to continue to grow. The development, deployment, and commercialization of certain AI‑enabled offerings and services involve significant uncertainty, including risks that models may not perform as intended, may produce incomplete, misleading, or biased outputs, or may not be adopted by customers at the pace or scale we expect. We seek to address some of our technology risks by increasing our reliance on the use of innovations by cross-industry technology leaders and adapt these for our biopharmaceutical and healthcare industry clients.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Data centres, strengthens Semiconductors and electronic components, strengthens Semiconductor industry
Biotech and drug development
Technology
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Our Market Opportunity We compete in a market of approximately $335 billion consisting of outsourced research and development, real-world evidence and connected health and technology enabled clinical and commercial operations markets for life sciences companies and the broader healthcare industry.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“The following sets forth our estimates for the size of our principal markets: •Outsourced research and development: Biopharmaceutical spending on drug development totaled approximately $199 billion in 2025. Of that amount, we estimate that our addressable opportunity (clinical development spending excluding preclinical spending) was approximately $159 billion. The portion of this addressable opportunity that was outsourced in 2025, based on our estimates, was approximately $75 billion. •Real-World Evidence and connected health: Total addressable market of approximately $90 billion in 2025 that consists of tightly coupled life sciences and healthcare markets.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“We believe there are six key trends affecting our end markets that will create increasing demand for research and development services, technology & analytics solutions and contract sales and medical solutions: Growth and innovation in the life sciences industry. The life sciences industry is a large and critical part of the global healthcare system and, according to the latest information available from the IQVIA Market Prognosis service, is estimated to have generated approximately $1.94 trillion in revenues in 2025. According to the IQVIA Institute, it is estimated that spending on pharmaceuticals in emerging markets will expand at a 5% to 8% compound annual growth rate (“CAGR”) through 2030.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverPositive impact: strengthens
“Growth in Research and Development. Spending trends in research and development are impacted as a result of several factors, including major biopharmaceutical companies’ efforts to replenish revenues lost from the so-called “patent cliff,” increased access to capital by the small and midcap biotechnology industry, and recent increases in pharmaceutical approvals by regulatory authorities. The IQVIA Institute also estimates that approximately 375 new molecular entities (“NMEs”) are expected to be approved between 2026 and 2030, or 75 per year compared to 68 per year on average during the past decade.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Business Our Company IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“We contract with biopharmaceutical companies to perform a wide range of services to assist them in bringing new drugs to market. Our services include monitoring clinical trials, data and laboratory analysis, electronic data capture, patient recruitment and other related services, and we perform these services in a number of ways, including through physical and technology-enabled efforts.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Our Research & Development Solutions business involves the testing of new drugs on patients in clinical trials and, if marketing approval is granted, the availability of these drugs to be prescribed to patients.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Our insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Our Clients Sales to companies in life sciences, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, device and diagnostic companies, and consumer health companies, account for the majority of our revenues.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: US drug pricing policy mixed effect, Patent expiry and generic competition weakens, Drug approvals strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Buying contract manufacturing and research (CMO/CRO/EMS), strengthens Contract manufacturers as a business (EMS, CMO, CRO)
Medical devices
Technology
Market
“Business Our Company IQVIA is a leading global provider of clinical research services, commercial insights and healthcare intelligence to the life sciences and healthcare industries.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Our insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Our Clients Sales to companies in life sciences, including pharmaceutical companies, biotechnology companies, device and diagnostic companies, and consumer health companies, account for the majority of our revenues.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“We partner with biopharmaceutical companies and other life sciences providers (e.g., medical device companies) to develop and deploy tailored stakeholder engagement solutions, including contract sales and market access professionals, which are focused on product sales and improving brand value at all stages of the product lifecycle from initial market entry to brands nearing patent expiry.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Ageing population strengthens
Healthcare and hospitals
End markets
Market
“Our insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“Other clients include payers, government and regulatory agencies, providers, pharmaceutical distributors, and pharmacies.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“The vast majority of our revenues are generated from sales to the biopharmaceutical and healthcare industries. The clients we serve in these industries are commonly subject to financial pressures, including, but not limited to, increased costs, reduced demand for their products, reductions in pricing and reimbursement for products and services, formulary approval and placement, government approval to market their products and limits on the manner by which they market their products, loss of patent exclusivity (whether due to patent expiration or as a result of a successful legal challenge) and the proliferation of or changes to regulations applicable to these industries. To the extent our clients face such pressures, or they change how they utilize our offerings, the demand for our services, or the prices our clients are willing to pay for those services, may decline.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Ageing population strengthens, GLP-1 and obesity treatment mixed effect
M&A and consolidation
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Client Risks •Consolidation in the industries in which our clients operate may reduce the volume of services purchased by consolidated clients following an acquisition or merger.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Expand portfolio through strategic acquisitions. We have and expect to continue to acquire assets and businesses that strengthen our value proposition to clients. We have developed an internal capability to source, evaluate and integrate acquisitions that have created value for stockholders.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We anticipate that a portion of our future growth may come from acquiring existing businesses, services or technologies. The success of any acquisition will depend upon, among other things, our ability to effectively integrate acquired personnel, operations, services and technologies into our business and to retain the key personnel and clients of our acquired businesses. In addition, we may be unable to identify suitable acquisition opportunities, obtain any necessary financing on commercially acceptable terms or receive regulatory approvals, which have become increasingly more challenging, costly and time consuming, to move forward with the transaction as contemplated in a timely manner or at all.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Labour and wages
Raw materials and inputs
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“Our employees are essential to our continued success and are a core element of our long-term strategy, especially as demand for critical skills continues to grow. Senior management is responsible for ensuring that our initiatives, policies, and processes reflect and reinforce our desired corporate culture, which we believe supports the development of the people and skills we will need tomorrow.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We continue to hire personnel in countries where exceptional technical knowledge and other expertise are offered at lower costs, which increases the efficiency of our global workforce structure and reduces our personnel-related expenditures. Nonetheless, as globalization continues, competition for talent in those countries has increased, which may impact our ability to retain these employees and increase our compensation-related expenses.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Public sector
End markets
Market
“Our insights and execution capabilities help biotech, medical device and pharmaceutical companies, medical researchers, government agencies, payers and other healthcare stakeholders tap into a deeper understanding of diseases, human behaviors and scientific advances, in an effort to advance their path toward cures.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Market
“We derive a portion of our revenues from sales to government entities around the world. In general, our contracts with government entities are terminable at will by the government entity at any time. Government demand and payment for our services may be affected by public-sector budgetary cycles and funding authorizations, including government shutdowns. Government contracts are typically subject to oversight, including special rules on accounting, expenses, reviews and security.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Banks and insurance
End markets
Market
“Other clients include payers, government and regulatory agencies, providers, pharmaceutical distributors, and pharmacies.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
ESG and sustainability reporting
Regulation
StrategyPositive impact: strengthens
“We are a global leader in protecting individual patient privacy. We use a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Cyber attacks and IT security risk
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Security breaches and unauthorized use of our IT systems and information, or the IT systems or information in the possession of our vendors, could expose us, our clients, our data suppliers or others to risk of loss. We rely upon the security of our computer and communications systems infrastructure to protect us from cyberattacks and unauthorized access.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Cyber threats are rapidly evolving and are becoming increasingly sophisticated, including through the use of AI-supported attacks. As cyber threats evolve and become more difficult to detect and successfully defend against, one or more cyber threats might defeat the measures that we or our vendors take to anticipate, detect, avoid or mitigate such threats.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We have acquired various companies, products, services and technologies over the years. While we make significant efforts to identify and address IT security issues with respect to these acquisitions, we may still inherit security risks associated with these activities.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We also store proprietary and sensitive information in connection with our business, which could be compromised by a cyberattack. To the extent that any disruption or security breach results in a loss or damage to our data, an inappropriate disclosure of proprietary or sensitive information, an inability to access data sources, or an inability to process data or provide our offerings to our clients, it could cause significant damage to our reputation, affect our relationships with our data suppliers and clients (including loss of suppliers and clients), lead to claims against us and ultimately harm our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Some of our vendors have significant responsibility for the security of certain of our data centers and computer-based platforms or Software-as-a-Service ("SaaS") applications upon which our businesses rely to host or process data or to perform various functions. Also, our data suppliers have responsibility for security of their own computer and communications environments.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Cybersecurity (products and services)
Drug approvals
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“In the United States, certain of our services are subject to numerous federal and state laws pertaining to promotional activities involving pharmaceutical products and medical devices. Certain of our services are subject to the FDA’s regulations against “off-label promotion,” which require sales representatives to restrict promotion of the approved product they are detailing to the approved labeling for the product.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Such services are complex and subject to contractual requirements, regulatory standards and ethical considerations. For example, we must adhere to applicable regulatory requirements such as those required by the FDA, the EMA and the competent authorities of the member states of the EU, and the MHRA in the UK, and Good Laboratory Practice and GCP requirements, which govern, among other things, the design, conduct, performance, monitoring, auditing, recording, analysis, and reporting of clinical trials.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Foreign and domestic government bodies have adopted and may continue to adopt new healthcare legislation or regulations that are more burdensome than existing regulations. For example, product safety concerns and recommendations by the Drug Safety Oversight Board could change the regulatory environment for drug products, and new or heightened regulatory and licensing requirements may increase our expenses or limit or delay our ability to offer some of our services. We might have to incur additional costs to comply with these or other new regulations, and failure to comply could harm our financial condition, results of operations, cash flows, and reputation, and result in adverse legal action(s).”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Actions by government regulators or clients to limit a prescription’s scope or withdraw an approved drug from the market could adversely affect our business and result in a loss of revenues. Government regulators have the authority, after approving a drug, to regulate or limit its scope of prescription or withdraw it from the market completely based on safety concerns.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Biotech and drug development
Cybersecurity (products and services)
Technology
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Data Privacy Patient health information is among the most sensitive of personal information, and it is critically important that information about an individual’s healthcare is properly protected from inappropriate access, use and disclosure. Real world evidence -- information that allows us to examine actual practices and outcomes -- is essential to increase access to care, improve outcomes, and lower costs. IQVIA uses a wide variety of privacy-enhancing technologies and safeguards to protect individual privacy while generating and analyzing information on a scale that helps healthcare stakeholders identify disease patterns and correlate with the precise treatment path and therapy needed for better outcomes.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“IT systems and Information •Security breaches and unauthorized use of our IT systems and information could expose us, our clients, our data suppliers or others to risk of loss. •We may experience challenges with the acquisition, development, enhancement or deployment of technology necessary for our business. •Data protection, privacy and similar laws restrict access, use and disclosure of personal information, and failure to comply with these laws could materially harm our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Data protection, privacy and similar laws and regulations in the United States and around the world restrict access, use and disclosure of personal information, and failure to comply with or adapt to changes in these laws could materially and adversely harm our business. The confidentiality, collection, use, retention, security, transfer and disclosure of personal information is subject to governmental regulation in the countries where the personal information was collected or processed.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: Cyber attacks and IT security risk strengthens
Chains out: this strengthens Digitalisation
Geopolitical uncertainty
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Market Forces •Disruptions in the credit and capital markets and unfavorable general economic conditions could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. •Our effective income tax rate may fluctuate for a variety of reasons. •Due to the global nature of our business we are subject to international economic, political and other risks that could negatively affect our results of operations and financial condition. •Climate change may have an impact on our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The risk of cyberattacks has increased in connection with geopolitical events and dynamics. State-sponsored parties or their supporters may launch retaliatory cyberattacks, and may attempt to cause supply chain disruptions, or carry out other geopolitically motivated actions that may adversely disrupt or degrade our operations and may result in data compromise.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“We are required to comply with the FCPA, the UK Bribery Act and other international anti-corruption laws, which prohibit companies from engaging in bribery including corruptly or improperly offering, promising, or providing money or anything else of value to non-United States officials and certain other recipients. In addition, the FCPA imposes certain books, records, and accounting control obligations on public companies and other issuers. We operate in parts of the world in which corruption can be common and compliance with anti-bribery laws may conflict with local customs and practices. Our global operations face the risk of unauthorized payments or offers being made by employees, consultants, sales agents, and other business partners outside of our control or without our authorization.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Defence budgets, strengthens Energy security, strengthens Tariffs and trade policy, weakens Global trade volumes, strengthens Sea freight and freight rates, weakens Reconstruction of Ukraine
Insurance premiums and reinsurance
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our involvement in the clinical trials and development process creates a risk of liability for personal injury to or death of patients, particularly those with life-threatening illnesses, resulting from adverse reactions to the drugs administered during testing or after product launch, respectively. For example, we have from time to time been sued and may be sued in the future by individuals alleging personal injury due to their participation in clinical trials and seeking damages from us under a variety of legal theories.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Business cycle and GDP growth
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Financial pressures driving the need for increased efficiency. Despite expected accelerating growth in the global life sciences market, we believe our clients will face increased operating margin pressure due to their changing product mix, pricing and reimbursement challenges, and rising costs of compliance. Product portfolios for life sciences companies have shifted toward specialty products with lower peak market sales potential than traditional primary care medicines.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Market Forces •Disruptions in the credit and capital markets and unfavorable general economic conditions could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. •Our effective income tax rate may fluctuate for a variety of reasons. •Due to the global nature of our business we are subject to international economic, political and other risks that could negatively affect our results of operations and financial condition. •Climate change may have an impact on our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Economic factors and industry trends that affect biopharmaceutical companies affect our Research & Development Solutions business. Biopharmaceutical companies continue to seek long-term strategic collaborations with global clinical research organizations with favorable pricing terms. Competition for these collaborations is intense and we may decide to forego an opportunity or we may not be selected, in which case a competitor may enter into the collaboration and our business with the client, if any, may be limited.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this strengthens Global trade volumes, strengthens Construction
Currency exposure
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“•Foreign Currency Transaction Risk. We are subject to foreign currency transaction risk for fluctuations in exchange rates during the period of time between the consummation and cash settlement of a transaction. We earn revenues from our service contracts over a period of several months and, in some cases, over several years. Accordingly, exchange rate fluctuations during this period may affect our profitability with respect to such contracts. •Foreign Currency Risk from Differences in Customer Contract Currency and Operating Costs Currency.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Foreign Currency Exchange Rates We transact business in more than 100 countries and approximately 60 currencies and are subject to risks associated with fluctuating foreign currency exchange rates. Our objective is to reduce earnings and cash flow volatility associated with foreign currency exchange rate movements. Accordingly, we enter into foreign currency forward contracts to hedge certain forecasted foreign currency cash flows related to service contracts.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Equity and capital markets
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Disruptions in the credit and capital markets could have negative effects on our business that may be difficult to predict or anticipate, including the ability of our clients, vendors, contractors and financing sources to meet their contractual obligations. Although we are unable to quantify the impact it has had on us, we are aware of a limited number of instances in our Research & Development Solutions business during the past several years where cancellations, changes in scope and failure to pay timely were attributable, at least in part, to difficulty in our clients’ ability to obtain financing. In the future such actions by our clients could, if they involve a significant amount of business with us, have a material adverse effect on our results of operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our smaller biopharmaceutical company customers may rely on funding from venture capital and other sources to drive their business. When this funding is reduced, these customers have been and may in the future be forced to reduce their outsourced R&D and commercialization expenditures or may be unable to pay for services rendered, which could have a material adverse effect on our business and results of operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
AI regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Our new Center for Defensible Data and AI and our AI Governance Council support employee compliance with our guiding principles of Defensible AI, Trustworthy AI, and Responsible and Ethical AI. This helps us to maintain high standards across the business, and supports our compliance with existing laws (e.g., clinical, employment, intellectual property, consumer protection, competition) and emerging AI regulation such as the European Union’s Artificial Intelligence Act (the "EU AI Act") and the Colorado AI Act.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Financial regulation
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Regulation of Patient Information Our information management services relate to the processing of information regarding patient diagnosis and treatment of disease and are, therefore, subject to substantial governmental regulation. In addition, the confidentiality of patient-specific information and the circumstances under which such patient-specific records may be released for inclusion in our databases or used in other aspects of our business is heavily regulated. Federal, state and foreign governments are contemplating or have proposed or adopted additional legislation governing the possession, use and dissemination of personal data, such as personal health information and personal financial data, as well as security breach notification rules for loss or theft of such data.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
IT operations and cloud
Raw materials and inputs
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The materialization of any of these risks may impede the processing of data, the delivery of databases and services, and the day-to-day management of our business and could result in the corruption, loss or unauthorized disclosure of proprietary, confidential or other data. While we have disaster recovery plans in place, they might not adequately protect us in the event of a system failure. While many of our operations have disaster recovery plans in place, we currently do not have excess or standby computer processing or network capacity everywhere in the world to avoid disruption in the receipt, processing and delivery of data in the event of a system failure. Despite any precautions we take, damage from fire, floods, hurricanes, power loss, telecommunications failures, computer viruses, break-ins and similar events at our various computer facilities could result in interruptions in the flow of data to our servers and from our servers to our clients.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
US drug pricing policy
Regulation
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“For example, in May 2025, the Trump administration issued an executive order entitled “Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients,” which, among other things, directs the HHS and other agencies to communicate most-favored-nation price targets to pharmaceutical manufacturers to bring prices for U.S. patients in line with comparably developed nations and to facilitate direct-to-consumer purchasing programs. It is currently unclear whether and to what extent these measures will be implemented and what impact any such implementation would have on our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this mixed effect Biotech and drug development, weakens GLP-1 and obesity treatment
USD vs DKK/EUR
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“The majority of our Research & Development Solutions global contracts are denominated in U.S. dollars or Euros while our operating costs in foreign countries are denominated in various local currencies. Fluctuations in the exchange rates of the currencies we use to contract with our customers and the currencies in which we incur cost to fulfill those contracts can have an adverse impact on our results of operations.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this mixed effect United States
Asia and emerging markets
Geography
Geography
“Regulators require clinical trials to involve local populations as part of the process for approving new pharmaceutical products, especially in certain Asian and emerging markets. Understanding the epidemiological and physiological differences in different ethnic populations and being able to conduct clinical trials locally in certain geographies will be important to pharmaceutical product growth strategies, both for multinational and local/regional biopharmaceutical companies. We believe that our global clinical development capabilities and unmatched presence in Asia and other emerging markets make us a strong partner for biopharmaceutical companies managing the complexities of international drug development.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Geography
“We also continue to invest significantly in growth opportunities in emerging markets, such as the development, launch and enhancement of services in China, India, Turkey, and other countries. We consider our presence in these markets to be an important component of our growth strategy.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Climate change and extreme weather
Macro
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Market Forces •Disruptions in the credit and capital markets and unfavorable general economic conditions could negatively affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. •Our effective income tax rate may fluctuate for a variety of reasons. •Due to the global nature of our business we are subject to international economic, political and other risks that could negatively affect our results of operations and financial condition. •Climate change may have an impact on our business.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
DriverNegative impact: weakens
“Environmental events may have an impact on our business. While we have determined that, at this time, environmental events do not present a material risk to our business given the nature of our activities, we continue to evaluate and mitigate our business risks associated with environmental events, and we recognize that there are inherent climate-related risks wherever business is conducted. Any of our office or IT systems locations may be vulnerable to the adverse effects of environmental events. Furthermore, environmental events may impact patients in our clinical trials and our employees, particularly where they work remotely.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains out: this weakens Agriculture and food production
Europe
Geography
Geography
“Build upon our extensive client relationships and leverage our global presence. We have a diversified base of over 10,000 clients in over 100 countries and have expanded our client value proposition to address a broader market for research and development and commercial operations which we estimate to be approximately $335 billion in 2025.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
United States
Geography
Geography
“Build upon our extensive client relationships and leverage our global presence. We have a diversified base of over 10,000 clients in over 100 countries and have expanded our client value proposition to address a broader market for research and development and commercial operations which we estimate to be approximately $335 billion in 2025.”
Annual report 2025A · The company itself
Chains in: USD vs DKK/EUR mixed effect
Competitors mentioned in the report
No named competitors in the report.
Financial figures
| Revenue latest fiscal year | 16.31 bn USD |
| Revenue growth vs. the year before, same method | 5.9 % |
| EBITDA reported by the company | 3.33 bn USD |
| Net debt debt incl. leasing minus cash | 14.06 bn USD |
| Diluted EPS per share | 7.84 USD |
Source: 10-K (SEC) A. See the report
Criteria
| Profit | ✓ |
| Growing | ✓ |
| Healthy balance sheet | ✗ |
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