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India’s largest pharma company has caught investors’ fancy and a lot of it is due to founder Dilip Shanghvi’s need to take a different path.

Sun Pharmaceutical Industries’s market capitalization is back at Rs 240,000 crore. That’s just 12% shy of its best ever market capitalization of Rs 269,000 crore, which it hit in March 2015, making its founder Dilip Shanghvi India’s richest person for a brief while before Reliance Industries’s Mukesh Ambani took back the crown.
What makes the Sun Pharma stock stand out is that it has gained 18.3% in the last one year, at a time when the healthcare industry, represented by the BSE Healthcare index, fell 11.85%. Sun Pharma has also significantly outperformed the broader Nifty 50, which has risen 2.4% …