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Lupin Q2 profit lags estimates

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Last Updated : Nov 09 2016 | 3:28 PM IST

MUMBAI (Reuters) - Lupin Ltd, India's third-largest drugmaker by sales, reported a 57.6 percent jump in quarterly profit, but missed analysts' expectations.

The Mumbai-based company, founded by billionaire Desh Bandhu Gupta, said net profit rose to 6.62 billion rupees ($99.62 million) from 4.20 billion rupees a year earlier.

That compares with an average estimate of a 7.16 billion rupees profit drawn from analysts polled by Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S.

($1 = 66.4500 Indian rupees)

(Reporting by Zeba Siddiqui in Mumbai; Editing by Edwina Gibbs and Subhranshu Sahu)

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