Big Pharma, like most companies has a 2% profit margin across the board. Any higher and the market will put up a competitor that is closer to the mean. Many pharma companies and hospitals have gone out of business in the past few years because cost mandates under the Biden admin, which made it no longer profitable, you may have heard of Purdue, Janssen, Johnson&Johnson or Novum as they made some ‘common’ medications like OxyContin, insulin, band-aid and now have failed or have recently announced financial problems, J&J actually filed for bankruptcy earlier this year. Then people are surprised when cost skyrocket as demand can no longer be met. Nurses are in such demand, the good ones make upwards of $100/h.
Just because a company makes lots of money doesn’t make it highly profitable, most of the market makes profits near the edge of absolute chaos and disaster. Governments are the most profitable entities out there, because they have no shareholders, not everyone can participate into making an ‘investment’ in government, but if you find a way, you get massive profits paid for by the tax payers off course.