Bulgaria's Sopharma Trading grows 11-mo pre-tax profit 18% y/y, sales up 13%

Sales revenue rose by 13% on the year to 799.6 million levs in the January-November period, the pharmaceuticals trading company said in a bourse filing on Tuesday.

In November alone, profit before taxes jumped by 51% to 2.4 million levs supported by a 20% rise in sales, to 84.1 million levs.

As at 10:18 CET on Wednesday, Sopharma Trading's shares changed hands 4.27% lower at 5.60 levs on the Bulgarian Stock Exchange.

Sopharma Trading is a unit of Bulgarian pharmaceuticals producer Sopharma [BUL:3JR].

(1 euro = 1.95583 levs)