Big COVID-19-Related Sales Drive Lilly’s Strong Q4 Performance

Neutralizing antibody bamlanivimab brought in $871m during the fourth quarter, skewing already solid growth upwards. Discussion of donanemab in Alzheimer’s dominated Lilly’s quarterly call.

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Lilly's revenues got a big boost from bamlanivimab for COVID-19

Fourth quarter and full-year 2020 revenue were going to tell a growth story driven by products launched since 2014, as Eli Lilly and Company had hoped, but pandemic-related business took the pharma’s quarterly sales performance to another level as it reported its financial performance to investors on 29 January.

Lilly reported global fourth quarter sales of $7.44bn, up 22% year-over-year, but the growth rate fell to a still solid...

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