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How Eli Lilly Waved Goodbye to $3.1 Billion

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RE: How Eli Lilly Waved Goodbye to $3.1 Billion

Jim,

I think what they are saying is that the exceptional (hopefully) non-recurring charge expressed as a percentage of current quarter sales is not a meaningful ratio. The meaningful number would be the cummulative charge to date for Zyprexa legal costs as a percentage of cummulative sales to date of Zyprexa. Unfortuantaly however interesting there is no legal requirement to disclose this. It is probably possible to compute if you are interested... but I don't have time to wade through several years of historic accounting data.

RobertD

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