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Squawk on the Street

Cramer's Morning Take: Eli Lilly 8/26/25

Squawk on the Street

CNBC

Investing, News, Business

4.1567 Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Cramer says this pharmaceutical giant’s stock can climb. 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 CBC Investing Club morning meeting.

0:07.0

Let's tackle something that I think that a lot of misinterpretation.

0:12.0

Eli Lilly this morning.

0:14.0

Stock was up, barely initially.

0:16.0

Let's do a couple stipulations. People who have diabetes is hard for them to lose weight.

0:20.0

Harder than a person who's

0:22.1

just overweight without diabetes. So if you do a study which shows that those who have diabetes

0:27.8

lost 10%, and then you do a study which says that those who don't have diabetes lose 10%. It's entirely possible that

0:40.3

this pill, this formulation is radically better for people who are just, who are obese.

0:46.3

Because if it's really good for the people who definitely have diabetes too, it could be great

0:50.3

for people who are just obese. So that's why the stock can continue to climb, because this pill is very meaningful.

0:57.7

This is the GLP1 pill that we've seen now three phase three studies on.

1:05.8

Today was important.

1:06.6

It was a milestone because now they're going to move into filing for approval.

1:11.0

Yeah, it's going to be your end.

1:12.3

And obviously, the percentage of people who hate getting the shots is up to like 80% now.

1:19.2

So that's why a lot of people get out.

1:20.8

So three advantages on why you would take a once daily oral for, say, once weekly injection.

1:27.6

Well, one is that it's easier to manufacture.

1:30.6

The auto-mex is that's the real bottleneck when it comes to the injectables.

1:34.6

Right. So you don't have to deal with that.

1:36.7

It's easier to ship and store because injectables have temperature requirements, and they need to be refrigerated.

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