NEW YORK, April 17, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The board of directors of Royalty Pharma plc (NASDAQ:RPRX) has approved the payment of a dividend for the second quarter of 2024 of $0.21 per Class A ordinary share.

The dividend will be paid on June 14, 2024, to shareholders of record at the close of business on May 17, 2024.

About Royalty Pharma

Founded in 1996, Royalty Pharma is the largest buyer of biopharmaceutical royalties and a leading funder of innovation across the biopharmaceutical industry, collaborating with innovators from academic institutions, research hospitals and non-profits through small and mid-cap biotechnology companies to leading global pharmaceutical companies. Royalty Pharma has assembled a portfolio of royalties which entitles it to payments based directly on the top-line sales of many of the industry's leading therapies. Royalty Pharma funds innovation in the biopharmaceutical industry both directly and indirectly - directly when it partners with companies to co-fund late-stage clinical trials and new product launches in exchange for future royalties, and indirectly when it acquires existing royalties from the original innovators. Royalty Pharma's current portfolio includes royalties on more than 35 commercial products, including Vertex's Trikafta, GSK's Trelegy, Roche's Evrysdi, Johnson & Johnson's Tremfya, Biogen's Tysabri and Spinraza, AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson's Imbruvica, Astellas and Pfizer's Xtandi, Novartis' Promacta, Pfizer's Nurtec ODT and Gilead's Trodelvy, and 14 development-stage product candidates. For more information, visit www.royaltypharma.com.

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Royalty Pharma Declares Second Quarter 2024 Dividend