Eli Lilly lowered the top end of its full-year revenue guidance by $600 million on Wednesday, as its third-quarter sales were about $800 million below Wall Street’s expectations.
The pharma giant had upped its full-year revenue expectations by $3 billion last quarter. But in its third-quarter update, Lilly said it was lowering the top end from $46.6 billion to $46 billion.
Lilly attributed its updated revenue guidance to “investing heavily in increasing the supply of tirzepatide and has been balancing demand creation activities and launches into new markets.”
Its shares
$LLY
immediately tanked 9% when its earnings report was released. It marks a rough transition for the drugmaker’s new CFO Lucas Montarce, a decadeslong veteran of the company.
The company reported $11.44 billion in sales for July through September, a 20% increase over the same period in 2023. The Street consensus for Q3 revenue was $12.2 billion, according to a preview note earlier this month from Leerink Partners.
Lilly missed expectations on Zepbound sales by almost $400 million. But on the overall tirzepatide franchise, it reached the Street’s anticipated $4.37 billion in sales.
In this earnings season, the Indianapolis pharma giant reported earnings a week in advance of Novo Nordisk. Last quarter, Novo slipped in trading when it
presented
a day before
Lilly
.
Lilly also
disclosed
the removal of two Phase 2 assets — DC-806 for psoriasis and peresolimab for rheumatoid arthritis — and one Phase 1 drug, an APOC3 siRNA for cardiovascular disease. Lilly got DC-806, an oral IL-17 inhibitor, from its $2.4 billion
DICE Therapeutics acquisition
last year. At the time, DICE said it had another molecule in development, DC-853, that could have better potency.
This is an evolving story and will be updated.