Become a Member
  • Track your favourite stocks
  • Create & monitor portfolios
  • Daily portfolio value
Sign Up
Quickpicks
Add shares to your
quickpicks to
display them here!

Glaxosmithkline (GSK) Share News

IN BRIEF: Haleon initiates first tranche of GBP330 million buyback

28th Mar 2025 08:48

Haleon PLC - Weybridge, Surrey-based consumer healthcare firm that spun out of GSK PLC in 2022 - Commences up to GBP330 million share buyback programme. Says this represents the remainder of the GBP500 million allocated to buybacks in 2025, announced as part of its 2024 results in February. It follows the completion of Haleon's off-market repurchase of 44.2 million shares from Pfizer Inc for approximately GBP170 million, announced in March. Says the first tranche is for an up to GBP200 million consideration, commencing immediately and to end no later than June 26 this year. Haleon expects the buyback scheme to enhance its earnings per share, with Goldman Sachs hired to carry out the purchase of shares. Read More

GSK urinary tract infection drug Blujepa approved by US regulator

25th Mar 2025 18:30

(Alliance News) - GSK on Tuesday said its urinary tract infection treatment gepotidacin, under the brand name Blujepa, has been approved in the US. Read More

GSK has application to expand use of mepolizumab accepted by EMA

24th Mar 2025 08:28

(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Monday said it has had an application to expand the use of mepolizumab for the treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease accepted for review by the European Medicines Agency. Read More

LONDON BRIEFING: FTSE 100 called up ahead of further US-Russia talks

24th Mar 2025 07:54

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is called to open higher on Monday, ahead of a slew of flash composite readings later in the day, and following the announcement of UK plans to cut government Civil Service spending. Read More

CORRECT: London opens lower ahead of Fed rate decision

19th Mar 2025 08:26

(Clarifies that M&G's assets under management are in billions, not millions.) Read More

CORRECT: London opens lower ahead of Fed rate decision

19th Mar 2025 08:16

(Clarifies that M&G swung to a pretax loss in 2024.) Read More

LONDON BRIEFING: London to open green ahead of Fed rate decision

19th Mar 2025 08:00

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is set to open higher on Wednesday despite a Wall Street slump, as Germany sets out its multi-million defence boost plan and investors await a Federal Reserve rate decision. Read More

LONDON BRIEFING: Phoenix Group "ahead of plan"; AstraZeneca makes buy

17th Mar 2025 07:49

(Alliance News) - Stocks in London are called to open flat on Monday, as investors digest plans by Chinese officials to boost consumption there, before focus later this week turns to central bank decisions. Read More

LONDON MARKET CLOSE: Global stocks knocked as trade war fears bite

4th Mar 2025 16:57

(Alliance News) - Stocks fell sharply on Tuesday on concerns tit-for-tit moves on tariffs would spark a full-blown trade war. Read More

GSK says US FDA accepts two depemokimab indication submissions

3rd Mar 2025 09:56

(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Monday said the US Food & Drug Administration has accepted for review the biologics license application for depemokimab in two indications - for asthma with type 2 inflammation and for chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps. Read More

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks rise, Hunting pleases with Rival sale

3rd Mar 2025 08:53

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened higher on Monday, ahead of the UK manufacturing PMI and following like releases from other regions. Read More

LONDON MARKET OPEN: Stocks flat but EnergyPathways surges

24th Feb 2025 09:03

(Alliance News) - Stock prices in London opened mostly flat on Monday, while across the channel Germany's election results have sparked uncertainty but also hopes of economic stimulus. Read More

GSK completes GBP1 billion IDRx purchase; starts GBP2 billion buyback

24th Feb 2025 08:32

(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Monday said it has completed the acquisition of Boston, Massachusetts-based precision therapeutics firm IDRx Inc, adding to its growing portfolio of treatments for gastrointestinal cancers. Read More

LONDON BRIEFING: FTSE 100 slightly down; Prosus to buy Just Eat

24th Feb 2025 07:54

(Alliance News) - UK stocks were called essentially flat on Monday, while over in the US confusion continues within federal workforces. Read More

IN BRIEF: GSK adds Oxford University medical science head to board

21st Feb 2025 09:00

GSK PLC - London-based pharmaceutical company - Hires Gavin Screaton as a non-executive director, joining the board on May 1. Screaton is head of the Medical Sciences Division at the University of Oxford. He is "an expert in the field of immunology and infectious diseases, two areas of science critical to GSK," it says. Screaton replaces Jesse Goodman, who will step down at GSK's annual general meeting in May, after nine years on the board. GSK hasn't yet announced a date for its 2025 AGM. In 2024, it was held on May 8. Read More

GSK celebrates Nucala review in China for form of pulmonary disease

20th Feb 2025 09:47

(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Thursday said its monoclonal antibody Nucala, also known as mepolizumab, has been accepted for review in China. Read More

LONDON MARKET OPEN: FTSE 100 underperforms but Centrica jumps

20th Feb 2025 09:04

(Alliance News) - European stocks opened mixed on Thursday, with the FTSE 100 underperforming, as Russia-Ukraine uncertainty, tariff worries and the possibility of higher for longer interest rates cloud over stocks. Read More

GSK gets US FDA approval for 5-in-1 meningitidis vaccine Penmenvy

17th Feb 2025 08:49

(Alliance News) - GSK PLC on Saturday said the US Food & Drug Administration has approved its vaccine against five common disease-causing serogroups of Neisseria meningitidis. Read More

LONDON BRIEFING: Assura rejects approach; Mony announces buyback

17th Feb 2025 07:49

(Alliance News) - London's FTSE 100 is called to open flat, following Friday's decline, with geopolitics and US tariff threats in focus. Read More

PRESS: Ken Griffin's Citadel bets GBP300 million against GSK - FT

14th Feb 2025 21:30

(Alliance News) - Hedge fund Citadel has made a GBP305 million bet against pharmaceuticals firm GSK PLC, the biggest short position against the company in more than a decade, according to the Financial Times. Read More

FTSE 100 Latest
Value8,658.85
Change-7.27