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Eli Lilly Q1 Earnings: Strong EPS Beat and Raised 2024 Guidance Amid Soaring Demand for Obesity Drugs

Eli Lilly (LLY) $790 Pre-Market – Up 6% – We’ve had a Buy on it and will continue to add on declines.

Lilly posted great results, but more importantly raised 2024 guidance by $2Bn (5-6%), leading to the pre-market jump! Obesity drugs have a huge demand, which they’re struggling to fill.

Eli Lilly press release (NYSE: LLY): Q1 Non-GAAP EPS of $2.58 beats by $0.09.

Revenue of $8.77B (+26.0% Y/Y) misses by $160M.

Revenue in Q1 2024 increased by 26%, driven by Mounjaro, Zepbound, Verzenio and Jardiance.

2024 full-year revenue guidance raised by $2.0 billion; reported EPS guidance raised $1.25 to be in the range of $13.05 to $13.55 and non-GAAP EPS guidance raised $1.30 to be in the range of $13.50 to $14.00 vs $12.46 Consensus.

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PayPal Q1 Earnings: Revenue Beat and Optimistic Outlook Despite Market Challenges

Paypal (PYPL) $70 Pre-Market up 7%.

Maintaining Buy, at this price there’s little downside and Paypal seems to be walking the talk with steady increases in revenue in an overcrowded market. Paypal is a mature company and getting 12-15% a year is pretty good.

Q1 revenue of $7.70B, topping the $7.52B consensus, fell from $8.03B in Q4 2023 and grew from $7.04B in Q1 2023.

Q1 Non-GAAP EPS of $1.40 beats by $0.18.

Guidance

Non-GAAP earnings per diluted share are expected to increase by a mid-to-high single-digit percentage compared to $3.83 (based on the new non-GAAP methodology) in the prior year.2024 is a transition year, righting a ship that had screwed up quite badly for the past three years and I think they should be able to do a decent job. 

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Cloud Service Providers

Amazon Q1 Earnings: Solid Revenue and AWS Growth, But Lower Guidance for Q2

Source:Seeking Alpha

  • Amazon press release (NASDAQ: AMZN): Q1 EPS of $0.98 may not be comparable to consensus of $0.83.
  • Revenue of $143.3B (+12.5% Y/Y) beats by $750M – Positive.
  • AWS segment sales increased 17% year-over-year to $25.0 billion – That’s a good sized growth compared to Google Cloud and Azure since it’s so much bigger.
  • Second Quarter 2024 Guidance
  • Lower guidance – Net sales are expected to be between $144.0 billion and $149.0 billion vs. $150.09B consensus, or to grow between 7% and 11% compared with the second quarter of 2023. This guidance anticipates an unfavorable impact of approximately 60 basis points from foreign exchange rates. In the first quarter of 2024, the impact from Leap Year added approximately 120 basis points to the year-over-year net sales growth rate.
  • Operating income is expected to be between $10.0 billion and $14.0 billion, compared with $7.7 billion in the second quarter of 2023.

The stock is up about 3% to $180, but that’s not even recovered the 4% that it lost in the day.

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Semiconductors

Intel Q1 Earnings: Solid Results Overshadowed by Weak Q2 Guidance, Stock Drops 6%

Intel’s misery continues…

Intel’s (NASDAQ: INTC) significantly weaker-than-expected guidance for the coming quarter overshadowed better-than-expected first-quarter results.

For the coming second quarter, the Pat Gelsinger-led firm expects revenue to be between $12.5B and $13.5B, well below the $13.61B analysts were anticipating.

It also anticipates earning an adjusted $0.10 per share with adjusted gross margins of 403.5% and a tax rate of 13%. Analysts were anticipating adjusted earnings of $0.25 per share.

Shares fell more than 6% in extended-hours trading.

For the period ending March 30, Intel earned an adjusted $0.18 per share on $12.7B in revenue. The quarter is Intel’s first period in changing its reporting structure to focus more on its foundry business. Intel products, which now include client computing, data center, and network and edge, came in at $11.9B, including a 31% year-over-year rise in Client Computing revenue to $7.5B.

Datacenter and AI revenue came in at $3B, while revenue attributed to Mobileye (MBLY) was $239M, down 48% year-over-year. The Network and edge segment generated $1.4B, while the company’s foundry segment saw revenue decline 10% year-over-year to $4.4B.

Analysts expected a year-over-year increase in both the top and bottom lines, with the Pat Gelsinger-led firm expected to earn $0.14 per share on $12.78B in sales.

A consensus of analysts expected Intel to earn an adjusted $0.14 per share on $12.78B in revenue.