Backing Eli Lilly (LLY) over CVNA and LHX for the coming quarter. While Carvana relies heavily on fragile retail volume recovery and L3Harris faces defense execution friction, LLY’s thesis is anchored in structural, inelastic demand for GLP-1 therapeutics.
The strategy is simple: accumulate post-earnings pullbacks toward key moving averages rather than chasing initial valuation spikes. The driver isn't multiple expansion—it's raw execution on volume conversion and global capacity expansion.
My Invalidation Trigger: A sustained deceleration in weekly prescription (TRx/NRx) growth trends combined with net realization price erosion. If yield compresses faster than volume scales, margin compression will cap the next leg up regardless of top-line hype.
Ticker & Trigger: LLY — Buying pullbacks at the 20-day SMA, invalidated if TRx growth drops below 2% QoQ. Margin resilience remains the non-negotiable metric.
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