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    The Bull Case For United Laboratories International Holdings (SEHK:3933) Could Change Following Key Cefoperazone-Sulbactam Approval

    Simply Wall St·12/07/2025 14:17:58
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    • United Laboratories International Holdings recently reported that its wholly owned Zhongshan branch of Zhuhai United Laboratories received China National Medical Products Administration approval, with quality and efficacy consistency evaluation, for its 2.0g Cefoperazone Sodium and Sulbactam Sodium for Injection, already classified as a Category B drug in the 2024 National Medical Insurance Drug List.
    • This outcome strengthens the company’s anti-infective portfolio by validating a broad-spectrum, hospital-focused antibiotic that can address multiple severe bacterial infections under China’s reimbursement framework.
    • We’ll now examine how this regulatory milestone in a key anti-infective therapy shapes United Laboratories’ investment narrative and future prospects.

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    What Is United Laboratories International Holdings' Investment Narrative?

    To stay invested in United Laboratories, you need to believe in a still-growing, China-focused pharma business that earns solid profits today while carefully broadening its drug mix. The recent consistency evaluation approval for its 2.0g Cefoperazone/Sulbactam injection fits this logic: it deepens an already strong anti-infective franchise inside the national reimbursement system rather than transforming the story overnight. Given the company’s modest projected revenue growth and flat earnings outlook, this looks more like an incremental, but helpful, short term catalyst that could support hospital sales and defend margins rather than a step change. The bigger questions remain around reliance on mature products, high non cash earnings, weaker free cash flow cover for dividends, and whether management can keep expanding beyond its core anti infectives base.

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    Two fair value estimates from the Simply Wall St Community cluster between HK$17.92 and HK$28.14, implying very different upside views. Against that spread, the new anti infective approval is just one factor in a wider debate about earnings quality, capital returns and how durable the current profit base really is.

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