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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Eli Lilly 8/13/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 13 August 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Cramer says he wants to buy back shares of this pharma giant. Become a CNBC Investing Club member to go behind the scenes with Jim Cramer and Jeff Marks as they talk candidly about the market’s biggest headlines. Signup here: cnbc.com/morningtake CNBC Investing Club Disclaimer

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0:00.0

Hey, it's Kramer, and this is my morning take on the market from today's CNBC Investing Club

0:06.3

morning meeting.

0:06.9

Why don't we move to Eli Lilly next?

0:10.1

Because we know insiders, they do tend to sell shares from time to time.

0:14.6

They can sell for many different reasons, maybe diversification, tax purposes, maybe they're

0:20.4

buying a new house. But when they buy shares, that's only with one goal in mind, and that's, tax purposes, maybe they're buying a new house.

0:21.8

But when they buy shares, that's only with one goal in mind, and that's, of course, to make money.

0:25.7

So we saw a bunch of insider buys, and Eli Lilly, of course, this came after some disappointing pill data last week.

0:32.8

These are mind-changing insider buyers.

0:36.0

David Ricks bought a million worth of shares.

0:38.2

The chief scientific officer bought a little more than half a million worth of shares.

0:42.3

Board member, the CEO of IFF, bought a million worth of shares.

0:46.1

Think about that.

0:47.1

He could buy his own stock.

0:48.6

What did he buy?

0:49.7

He bought this stock.

0:51.3

That is very important.

0:53.1

So I sold to Jeff last night, I said,

0:55.2

I cannot be as negative on this after these insider buys.

0:59.2

I think that it's in a front and it's down 15%.

1:02.2

So anyway, I can't count in selling the stock

1:05.6

in the strength, I just can't.

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