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Eli Lilly & Co (LLY 1.96%)
Q3Â 2018 Earnings Conference Call
Nov. 06, 2018, 9:00 a.m. ET
Contents:
- Prepared Remarks
- Questions and Answers
- Call Participants
Prepared Remarks:
Operator
Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by, and welcome to the Third Quarter 2018 Earnings Call. At this time all participants are in a listen-only mode. Later we will conduct a question-and-answer session. (Operator Instructions) As a reminder, this conference is being recorded.
I'd now like to turn the call over to our host, Mr. Dave Ricks. Please go ahead.
David A. Ricks -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Thank you, and good morning. Thank you for joining us for Eli Lilly and Company's Q3 2018 earnings call. I'm Dave Ricks, Lilly's Chairman and CEO.
Joining me on today's call are Josh Smiley, our Chief Financial Officer; Dr. Dan Skovronsky, President of Lilly Research Labs and our Chief Scientific Officer; Enrique Conterno, the President of Lilly Diabetes and Lilly USA; Christi Shaw, the President of Lilly Bio-Medicines; and Anne White, who is joining us for the first time as our new President of Lilly Oncology. We're also joined by Kristina Wright, Mike Czapar, Kevin Hern and Phil Johnson for the IR team.
Please note that Jeff Simmons is not on the call today as Elanco is now having their own quarterly earnings calls, including their first call earlier this morning. Subsequent questions regarding their business performance and outlook should be directed to Elanco's investor relations team.
During this call, we anticipate making projections and forward-looking statements based on our current expectations. Our actual results could differ materially due to a number of factors, including those listed on slide three and those outlined in our latest Forms 10-K and 10-Q filed at the SEC. The information we provide about our products and our pipeline is for the benefit of the investment community. It is not intended to be promotional and it is not sufficient for prescribing decisions.
We continued our strong performance in 2018 with a third-quarter revenue growth of 7%, a non-GAAP operating income of 29% and non-GAAP EPS growth of 32%. New pharmaceutical products, which now represent 35% of Human Pharma revenue in the quarter, continue to be the driver of our worldwide growth, led by Trulicity, Taltz and Verzenio. New products continue to drive strong volume based growth, highlighted by the 14% pharma volume growth and the 30% US diabetes volume growth.
We continued to expand our margins this quarter. Excluding the effect of FX on international inventory sold, non-GAAP gross margin as a percent of revenue increased by nearly 110 basis points over Q3 2017 and non-GAAP operating income as a percent of revenue increased by over 380 basis points to 28.1%.
We made significant progress with the pipeline this quarter, including the approval and launch of Emgality in the US, a positive CHMP opinion for Emgality in Europe, the submission of lasmiditan in the US, as well as positive Phase 3 readouts for Ultra Rapid Lispro in type 1 and type 2 diabetes patients and a positive Phase 2 readout for GIP/GLP, which is now called tirzepatide in type 2 diabetes. And we announced yesterday that Trulicity demonstrated superiority in the reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events across a broad range of people with type 2 diabetes in the precedent setting REWIND trial. These results are important for the millions of people with type 2 diabetes who face a higher risk for CV disease. We will submit these data to regulatory authorities and plan to present the detailed data at ADA in 2019. These extensive data, along with Trulicity's proven powerful efficacy simply delivered, further validate Trulicity as a well-established option for people with diabetes.
In terms of capital deployment, Elanco Animal Health became a publicly traded company via a well-received initial public offering. Through the IPO and the associated debt offering, Elanco raised over $4 billion in capital, the vast majority of which was provided to Lilly as partial consideration for the Animal Health business that Lilly transferred to Elanco in connection with the IPO.
We announced several business development transactions, including a licensing agreement with Chugai Pharmaceuticals for an oral GLP-1 agonist; a licensing and research collaboration with Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, utilizing their RNAi technology platform; a collaboration with NextCure, Inc., focused on discovery and development of novel immuno-oncology cancer therapies; and we purchased a priority review voucher, we returned nearly $600 million via the dividend and we repurchased $1 billion of stock. Moving on to the slides five and six, you'll see more detail on key events since our July earnings call.
Now I'll turn the call over to Josh to review our Q3 results and to provide an update on our financial guidance for 2018.
Joshua L. Smiley -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Dave, and good morning.
Slide seven summarizes our presentation of GAAP results and non-GAAP measures, while slide eight provides a summary of our GAAP results. I'll focus my comments on our non-GAAP adjusted measures to provide insights into the underlying trends in our business. So please refer to today's earnings press release for a detailed description of the year-on-year changes in our third quarter GAAP results.
Looking at the non-GAAP measures on slide nine, you'll see the revenue increase of 7% that Dave mentioned earlier. Gross margin as a percent of revenue increased to 76.7%. Excluding the effect of foreign exchange rates on international inventory sold, gross margin as a percent of revenue increased nearly 110 basis points, primarily driven by manufacturing efficiencies and, to a lesser extent, the favorable impact of product mix, partially offset by the negative impact of price on our revenue.
Total operating expense increased roughly 1%, with marketing, selling and administrative expense increasing 2%, while R&D expense remained relatively flat. Total operating expense as a percent of revenue compared to Q3 2017 declined 275 basis points to 48.8%, benefiting from previously announced actions taken to reduce the Company's cost structure.
Operating income increased 29% compared to Q3 2017, which put our operating margin at 27.9% for the quarter. And as Dave mentioned earlier, excluding the effect of FX on international inventory sold, our operating income was 28.1% of revenues, an improvement of over 380 basis points versus last year's quarter.
Other income and expense was expense of $15.4 million this quarter compared to income of $49.9 million in last year's quarter. Our tax rate was 15.1%, a decrease of 380 basis points compared with the same quarter last year, driven primarily by the impact of US tax reform.
At the bottom line, net income increased 29%, while earnings per share increased slightly faster at 32% due to reduction in shares outstanding from share repurchases. We achieved this significant earnings growth by delivering high single-digit revenue growth, while carefully managing our operating expenses, significantly improving profitability again this quarter.
Slide 10 details the same non-GAAP measures for September year-to-date, while slide 11 provides a reconciliation between reported and non-GAAP EPS. We'll find additional details on these adjustments on slides 23 and 24.
Moving to slide 12. Let's take a look at the effect of price, rate and volume on revenue growth. This quarter foreign exchange had a modest effect on revenue. Our worldwide revenue growth on a performance basis was 8%, driven by a 12% increase in volume, partially offset in price. Q3 represented the seventh straight quarter our Human Pharma business delivered volume growth in each major geography. US pharma revenue increased 11%, driven by impressive volume growth of 17%, led by Trulicity, Basaglar, Taltz and Verzenio, partially offset by price.
As Dave mentioned earlier, our US diabetes business delivered 30% volume growth yet again this quarter. This performance affirms our volume based growth strategy is critical as we grow through an evolving US pricing environment. And you will see US price declined 6% this quarter. Nearly 3 points of the US price decline was driven by new access and corresponding volume for Basaglar in Medicare Part D, which we didn't have in last year's quarter.
We also have approximately 2 points of decline associated with increases to our patient affordability and access programs for Taltz and Humalog, which also drove increased volumes. The remaining point of decline is the net effect of changes to estimate -- the estimates in rebates and discounts across segments, partially offset by the impact of price increases we took late last year and early this year.
Moving to Europe. Pharma revenue grew 1%, driven by volume, largely offset by price. This volume growth was achieved despite the loss of exclusivity for Cialis. Excluding the impact of the Cialis LOE, volume grew over 15%. This robust volume growth was led by Olumiant, Trulicity, Taltz, Lartruvo and Jardiance.
In Japan, pharma revenue decreased 2%, with volume growth more than offset by price from the impact of the biannual price cuts, which took effect in Q1. Volume growth was driven by new products, namely Trulicity, Olumiant, Taltz and Jardiance, with a significant contribution also coming from Cymbalta.
Our pharma revenue in the rest of world increased 15% on a performance basis this quarter, led by volume growth from new products, namely Trulicity, Cyramza, Jardiance, Lartruvo, Taltz and Basaglar as well as strong volume growth from Humalog.
Turning to Animal Health. Total worldwide revenue grew 6% on a performance basis this quarter, driven by higher prices and higher volume. Higher sales of companion animal disease prevention, ruminants and swine and companion animal therapeutics products were partially offset by lower sales of products that are being exited, including the products which Lilly has retained control of after the Elanco IPO.
Slide 13 outlines the same information for our September year-to-date results.
Now let's take a look at the drivers of our 12% worldwide volume growth on slide 14. In total, our new products including, Trulicity, Taltz, Basaglar, Verzenio, Olumiant, Jardiance, Lartruvo and Cyramza were the engine of our worldwide volume growth. You can see that these products drove 13.8 percentage points of volume growth this quarter. This robust pharma volume growth represented our strongest quarterly volume performance of this decade. The loss of exclusivity for Strattera, Effient, Zyprexa, Axiron, Evista and Cymbalta provided a drag of 110 basis points, while Cialis accounted for 190 basis points of volume decline.
At the end of September, generic versions of Cialis entered the US market, which is expected to result in rapid erosion of sales. When excluding LOEs in Cialis, the rest of our products had volume growth of approximately 19%.
Slide 15 provides a view of our new product updates. In total, these brands generated nearly $1.9 billion in revenue this quarter, representing 31% of our total worldwide revenue and 35% of our Human Pharmaceutical revenue. With the launch of Emgality and the submission of lasmiditan, we look forward to adding a fourth leg to our new product growth story, joining recent launches in diabetes, oncology and immunology and demonstrating that Lilly is also building an innovative pain franchise.
Moving to slide 16. Continuing with our non-GAAP explanations, this quarter the effect of FX had a relatively minimal impact on our income statement, with a small negative impact on revenue and a small positive impact on our expenses (ph).
Turning to our 2018 financial guidance on slide 17. You will see that we have updated our non-GAAP guidance to reflect our continued strong operational performance. We are narrowing the range for revenue to $24.3 billion to $24.5 billion; narrowing the range for SG&A expense to $6.3 billion to $6.5 billion; decreasing our tax rate from 17% to 16%, due primarily to recently issued guidance on elements of US tax reform; and we're raising and narrowing our non-GAAP earnings per share range to $5.55 to $5.60. At the midpoint of the range, this represents an increase of 30% over 2017.
I would note that this revised EPS range assumes a $0.02 to $0.03 negative impact from backing out the non-controlling interest portion of Elanco profits in the fourth quarter, which had not been included in the prior guidance.
Our updated guidance implies fourth quarter non-GAAP EPS of between $1.33 and $1.38, which exceeds current consensus. However, it is lower than our third quarter EPS due to the entry of generic competition for Cialis in the US in late September; higher fourth quarter R&D expenses to support additional late-stage investment, including mirikizumab, Olumiant and Taltz NILEX as well as pegilodecakin and GIP/GLP; and launch investments for Emgality and finally the minority interest attributed to Elanco that I mentioned earlier.
On a reported basis earnings per share for 2018 is now expected to be in the range of $3.13 to $3.18. In total, we expect strong full year performance, led by volume gains in our new products, which allows for targeted investments in our long-term portfolio and positions us well to achieve our 2020 financial objectives. This robust performance, along with the capital raise from the Elanco transaction, provides strong cash flow, which we are deploying thoughtfully across our capital allocation priorities. As we move forward in line with our strategy, we will continue to prioritize funding our existing marketed products, new launches, lifecycle opportunities and in replenishing our pipeline.
In addition, we continue to leverage business development to upgrade our pipeline in future growth prospects, as you saw with several recent announcements of business development deals. Finally, we will return excess cash to shareholders via increases to the dividend and share buybacks.
Now I will turn the call back over to Dave to review the pipeline and key future events.
David A. Ricks -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Thanks, Josh.
So slide 18 shows select pipeline opportunities as of October 30th. In my summary of the quarter at the beginning of the call I mentioned the positive movements for Emgality and lasmiditan. Additional movements since our last earnings call includes: the start of a Phase 3 study for Olumiant in Lupus and the start of a Phase 2-3 adaptive study for Olumiant in alopecia areata; the attrition of Cyramza's second line bladder cancer indication from Phase 3; and the attrition of the N3PG plus BACE combo arm from the ongoing Phase 2. Please note, we are still studying N3PG as a monotherapy in Phase 2.
On slide 19 we provide an update on expected key events for 2018. In addition to the pipeline movement and regulatory actions I've already noted, you'll see that we've added a new line to reflect our expectation to submit Taltz for axial spondyloarthritis to regulatory authorities by the end of the year. In addition, the FDA has granted breakthrough designation to Emgality for the cluster headache indication. And you'll see that we've added a new line to reflect our plans to submit this indication by year-end.
Under regulatory action, you will see that the approval of Verzenios in Europe and Verzenio in Japan. And the approval of fruquintinib in China under the trade name Elunate. Under regulatory submissions, you'll see the submission of a new indication for Cyramza in Europe and Japan for second line liver cancer.
In the Phase 3 data presentations and publications section, we've reflected presentations at EASD of the EASE 2 and 3 studies in type 1 diabetes for empagliflozin, as well as the CARMELINA CV outcome study for Tradjenta in collaboration with Boehringer Ingelheim. In addition to the presentations at ACR of the COAST-V and COAST-W axial spondyloarthritis studies for ixekizumab. And in Phase 3 top line data disclosure section, in addition to the Phase 3 readouts for Trulicity and Ultra Rapid Lispro, which I mentioned earlier, we also had a positive Phase 3 readout for flortaucipir, our tau imaging agent.
This was another productive quarter, contributing to continued pipeline advancement in 2018. Before we go to the Q&A session, let me briefly sum up the progress we've made this quarter. In Q3 we continued our strong operating performance in 2018, delivering 7% revenue growth and 12% volume growth, driven by our newest products. As Josh stated earlier, our Pharma volume growth was the strongest this decade. We continue to realize significant efficiencies in our cost structure, leading to operating margin expansion of over 380 basis points, excluding the impact of foreign exchange on international inventories sold.
We have made excellent progress in our pipeline this quarter as well. The approval and launch of Emgality for migraine patients in the US -- this is our 10th new product launch since 2014; the FDA submission of lasmiditan for acute migraine; positive Phase 3 data for Ultra Rapid Lispro; the presentation of exciting Phase 2 data for tirzepatide in type 2 diabetes; and just yesterday's news that Trulicity demonstrated superiority in the reduction of major adverse cardiovascular events across a broad range of people with type 2 diabetes in the precedent setting REWIND trial.
We also returned $1.6 billion to shareholders via dividend and share repurchases. We completed the Elanco IPO and bolstered our early phase pipeline with the addition of an oral GLP-1 while completing several other business development deals.
This concludes our prepared remarks and now I'll turn the call over to Phil to moderate the Q&A session.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Dave.
As in prior calls, we would like to take as many questions as possible during the Q&A session. So we do ask that you limit your questions to two or a single question with two parts. Also, given some scheduling issues on our side and the fact that in recent calls we have not exhausted the full 90 minutes we had scheduled, we do intend to conclude today's call at 10.15.
So with that, Lola, if you can provide the instructions for the Q&A session? And then we're ready for the first caller.
Questions and Answers:
Operator
(Operator Instructions) And first, we'll go to the line of Chris Schott with J.P. Morgan.
Christopher Schott -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Hi. Great. Thanks so much for the questions. My first one is on REWIND results. I think you referred to them as precedent-setting. I know you're sharing the full data next summer, but any additional color you can provide as we try to think about those results in context of prior GLP-1 CV outcome studies as kind of this balance of healthier patients versus longer follow-up in that study? My second question, I think you touched a little bit on that in the prepared remarks, but the diabetes portfolio in 3Q, I think we had a few products coming in a bit below expectations after some very strong first half results. Can you talk about any color in terms of, was there any kind of one-time issues to think about Humalog or Basaglar that affected this quarter's results? Thanks so much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you for the questions, Chris. And Ricky, those are both for you.
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Very good. REWIND is indeed a precedent-setting trial. It included the majority of patients without -- with type 2 diabetes but without cardiovascular disease. It also had the longest medium follow-up over five years, a low A1C baseline of 7.3. I think what we can share at this stage is really what's on the press release. We will not be sharing more information on REWIND until our intended detailed presentation at ADA next year. We do intend to submit in 2019 for a new indication. Related to Humalog and Basaglar, the overall diabetes portfolio first, I think we're very pleased with the overall volume growth when it comes to the diabetes portfolio. Clearly, when it comes to Humalog, we did see a 14% price decline vis-a-vis Q3 of 2017. Just to provide maybe a little more color on this, we are seeing a favorable segment mix, about 8 points of that 14. Patient affordability is impacting the insulin portfolio, that's another 4 points. And then we had a unfavorable adjustment as a comparator to last year's quarter. Maybe to provide them, try to be a little more instructive -- yes, we do see a lot of volatility with Humalog. It's better to look at this product on a year-to-date basis. And when we look at it on a year-to-date basis I think the trend that we basically see is mid-single-digit erosion on price. (inaudible) so Basaglar is slightly different in that Basaglar did not have any access in Part D and that's actually that we first gained this year. So when we look at the compare, we are comparing on a segment that is highly rebated, and that basically has an impact on price. Now when we look at Q2 of '18 versus Q3 of '18 for Basaglar, there are some price erosion, but not at the same magnitude that you see year-on-year.
Christopher Schott -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Great.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Enrique, thank you for the answers. Lola, if we can go to the next caller, please.
Operator
Certainly. And next we'll go to the line of Tim Anderson with Wolfe Research.
Tim Anderson -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Thank you very much. Couple of questions. 2019, can you talk about tailwinds and headwinds? I know you won't be giving official guidance until December, but hoping there are at least some trends both on the revenue and spending side that you can maybe call out ahead of that official guidance. So for example, obviously Cialis is, with the LOE, if I think about R&D spend, you're going to be starting eight Phase 3 trials on your GIP/GLP-1 program. So any color in '19 would be appreciated. And then a second question on insulin category. So at some point FDA may deem biosimilar insulins as interchangeable and substitutable to this brand. Do you think this is more likely than not to occur and could that be something that happens as soon as 2019? And if not 2019, then when?
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Tim. Good to hear your voice again. Welcome back. Josh, if you would answer the first question on the '19 tailwinds and headwinds. And then Enrique, the question Tim had on interchangeability for insulins. Josh?
Joshua L. Smiley -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Tim, and you've started to answer the question. I think the main tailwinds -- or the headwinds that we'll see, is the Cialis overhang in 2019 as we will experience the main erosion here in the fourth quarter in the US. So that certainly will be a headwind as we head into '19. With that being said, we're seeing great growth in our -- the 10 new medicines we've launched in 2014. So we'd expect that those -- the volume from those products to more than compensate for many of the tailwinds we've said that we will see. So we will see a difficult comparator. The other thing that we've talked about in terms of a headwind on the top line will be the change in the donut hole provision in Medicare Part D to move from 50% to 70%. And as Enrique mentioned, we've got Basaglar and our diabetes products that are in that segment strongly. So we'll see a little bit of a headwind there. But I think we're really pleased with the volume growth that we saw this quarter and expect that the main components of that will continue into 2019. On the R&D side, we do have a very robust set of Phase 3 opportunities ahead of us. You mentioned tirzepatide, which we'll be starting in 2019 in a broad sense. We've got mirikizumab that we've moved into Phase 3. As you know, those trials are expensive, so we'll have a cost there and then we will see data on our ARMO asset the IL-10 in 2019 and would expect, given positive data there, to continue to push that program. So we'll make targeted investments in R&D and should expect to see some -- some growth there. I think we've been pretty clear on the SG&A line that a big component of our operating margin expansion will be to redirect the investments and resources that we have in products like Cialis and Forteo and others to our new launch opportunities will have a -- certainly we'll spend competitively to launch products like Emgality next year but we'd look to manage that total base at a pretty flat level. All in all, we are excited about the prospects for mid-term 2019 and 2020. We're well on track we think to meet our 2020 mid-term objectives which are 5%compound annual -- minimum 5% compound annual sales growth between 2015 and 2020 and operating margin minimum of 30%. So we feel good about where we are right now.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Josh. Enrique?
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
When it comes to insulin interchangeability at the pharmacy level, we do not believe this is imminent and best is likely a few years away, and it will require the appropriate studies for the FDA to provide such a designation.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Enrique. Lola, next caller, please.
Operator
Certainly. Next we'll go to the line of Jason Gerberry with Bank of America. Mr. Gerberry? Shall we move on?
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Yes, if you could. And then maybe put Jason into the next slot if he is able to reconnect. Thank you.
Operator
Certainly. And next we'll go to the line of Andrew Baum with Citi.
Andrew Baum -- Citi -- Analyst
Thank you. Couple of questions to Enrique, please. Could you talk to the barriers prohibiting for the Jardiance thesis (ph), whether it's education, reimbursement copay? And then related to that, could you outline the tier 2 formulary status within Medicare for Jardiance especially and in particular whether a second brand at a net price rather than the current list price may be helpful in increasing penetration by reducing the burden on the patients of (inaudible) net pricing, which seems to be potentially upon us? Many thanks.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Okay. Andrew, thank you for the questions. If I got them, first Enrique, it would be barriers that you see to Jardiance usage and ways to maybe change that through formulary status in Medicare and the opportunity for a second brand to potentially address some of the issues of patients based on that book of business.
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Yes. I'm going to try to answer that question, Andrew, just by maybe providing a bit of color on how we see because Jardiance because I do see -- there are some barriers, but I see a number of dynamics that are very positive when I look at the overall class and Jardiance in particular. First, clearly one of the things that we look at is how is the overall class evolving and developing, and the class right now is growing in single digits -- high single digits, but more importantly, we are seeing new patient starts -- the growth in new patient starts accelerate. We now see that in the 14%, 15% range. It reminds me a bit of the reacceleration of the GLP-1 class back when Trulicity was launched. Importantly, there are new guidelines that have been -- that have been published by both ADA and EASD. We think those guidelines are a significant improvement and that's going to be very helpful -- that's an important tailwind. And finally, we have improved access for Jardiance. As you know, we were excluded from one of the major accounts. We are back as of January 1st, and that's going to be a very important access for Jardiance. When it comes to coverage now, starting in January of '19, is in the 90s. So that's an excellent foundation for us to capitalize on. And an additional point which I emphasized in the GLP-1 class, but it's relevant for now as have deduced is that we have basically additional data from competitors that are confirming the benefits when it comes to CV of the class, and importantly, investments from those competitors. Jardiance is in the best opportunity to capitalize on that. So I see an evolution and -- there a lot of signs and dynamics to be hopeful about the acceleration of the overall growth and the ability for Jardiance to capitalize on that. You asked about Medicare. And whether we would be launching a second brand with Jardiance. Honestly, that's -- that's not where I see the issue for Jardiance when it comes to the use of it. Clearly, we always assess all opportunities for our brands, but we are much more focused about -- and I think as you implied in your question, continuing to educate healthcare professionals to ensure that they understand the full benefits that Jardiance can offer patients and these new guidelines are going to be extremely helpful to do that.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Enrique. Lola, if we can go to the next caller, please.
Operator
Certainly. And next we'll go to the line of Jason Gerberry with Bank of America.
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Hi, can you guys hear me?
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
We certainly can, yes.
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Great. Sorry about that. Yes, first question is just on Taltz. Can you talk about the outlook going into the next few years with a new competitor launching and do you believe that AbbVie's market position with Humira, which has been the leading product in some of these markets, do you think that confers any advantage as it pertains to access relative to the already on market interleukin agents? And then my second question with oral GLP-1, can you talk a little bit about what you hope to accomplish here, especially with the great a data on GIP/GLP? And as we think about Novo's oral sema, there are obviously some challenges with that product in terms of dosing. So can you talk about sort of what you're looking for in terms of go/no go profile?
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Jason, thank you for the questions. So Christi, if you'll take the question on the Taltz' outlook going forward? And then over to you, Dan, for our goals for the oral GLP-1 program.
Christi Shaw -- Senior Vice President and President
Sure. So we're very excited with Taltz. I mean, you probably saw that our year-over-year volume growth was significant. Specifically our TRx grew 80% year-over-year and over the quarter continuing to grow the same. And we're just starting with Taltz. I mean, we have a great position in the dermatology office. We just launched this year in the rheumatology office with psoriatic arthritis, which, that launch is going well. And just coming off of the American College of Rheumatology, we also demonstrated our data in ankylosing spondylitis, which we will submit before the end of the year, as Dave said. So as we're looking and winning in dermatology, we're beefing up in rheumatology as well. And to your point about access, right now, our access is about the same as Cosentyx, a little bit less due to the opt-in change in the beginning of the year. But with that, as you can see the growth of Taltz, it hasn't prevented us from getting patients who need Taltz on Taltz. And we see that continue in the future because in this marketplace unfortunately, patients cycle through many different therapies, and what we're seeing from customers is that they would like a variety of therapies and different mechanisms to choose from. So if you look at the entire portfolio that we have of newer agents coming out in IL-17 and IL-23, our JAK inhibitor, we're looking to be able to provide a broad portfolio to those customers, those patients and broaden our access to payers with the advent of the newer agents.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thanks, Christi. Dan?
Daniel M. Skovronsky -- Senior VP for Science & Technology and President of Lilly Research Labs
Yes, thank you for the question on our partnership with Chugai on this oral GLP-1 receptor agonist. This is still a pre Phase 1 molecule, but moving quickly toward human trials. An important comment there is that this is a non-peptidic agonist. So this is -- you should think of this very differently from an oral peptide. This is a small molecule approach. As such, we expect it to have in humans, and this is what we'll be testing, a much higher bioavailability than you would see for any kind of oral peptide approach. What does that mean for patients? We hope that will translate into a better experience certainly in terms of how and when this molecule will be dosed for the -- for the people on the Taltz and ultimately in practice. But also that should translate into improved outcomes. So still very early, but we're excited about the potential here and look forward to getting some human data.
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Great.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Dan. Lola, next caller, please.
Operator
Certainly. Next we'll go to the line of Geoff Meacham with Barclays.
Sylvia Abraham -- Barclays -- Analyst
Hi, guys. This is Sylvia (ph) Abraham (ph) for Geoff. Thanks for taking the questions. Just two from me. First question is on your GLU receptor agonist. Can you provide us with any update on that Phase 3 trial? We noticed yesterday that the SURPASS 4 (ph) was posted to a -- to ct.gov, so can you point to what steps you've taken to improve that -- overall tolerability in that Phase 3? Just curious how the design was influenced by the recently completed titration study that you previously talked about and of course the Phase 2 that we saw last month? And any expectations there on enrollment timelines? And then second question is just another on REWIND. Just curious on what your view is on the incremental opportunity here. Any thoughts on how it might change the treatment paradigm and what the impact on the overall GLP-1 class might be? Thanks so much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you for the questions. So, Enrique, may we have you attack those? So the first one on GIP/GLP, tirzepatide, things that are being done for Phase 3 with titration, things we had learned in our Phase 2 program and then any comments on enrollment timing, and then how you see REWIND playing out going forward with the GLP-1 market.
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Yes. So as we've shared as part of the tirzepatide Phase 3 program, we are planning to study three maintenance doses at 5, 10 and 15 milligrams. I think what we've learned is that we should titrate in smaller increments over time. As we've shared, we have a titration study that we intend to share the details next year, but clearly we've learned a lot from the study in terms of what are the optimum titration schedules. We are planning aggressively when it comes to starting this trial and starting enrollment. So you'll be hearing more when it comes to our trial for type 2 diabetes soon. As far as REWIND, I do not want to speculate on the particular indication that we will get, but clearly this is important for the class in that it confirms what other GLP-1s have shown when it comes to receiving benefit. And I'm sorry I cannot resist but I heard the Novo Nordisk call and they also mentioned the GLP-1s were not all the same. And I think we agree with them.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Enrique. So Lola, if we can go to the next caller.
Operator
Yes. And next we'll go to the line of Steve Scala with Cowen.
Stephen Michael Scala -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Thank you. I have a couple of questions. You mentioned the US price hit from gaining access for Basaglar, Taltz and Humalog, but was there a one-time volume gain from this reflected in the 17% US volume increase? So that's the first question. The second question is, to go back to the questions on REWIND, is REWIND precedent-setting because of the population studied or is it precedent-setting because you've avoided the less than optimal outcomes of Novo's LEADER and SUSTAIN 6 or perhaps both? And your precedent-setting is a big statement. So in the absence of any color, I guess we have to assume you hit all three components of the primary endpoint, which is something Novo was not able to accomplish. Thank you.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Steve, thank you for the questions. So, Josh, if you'll take the comment on US price, that there was also significant offsets there in the volumes that we're gaining. And then Enrique on what we mean by precedent-setting for REWIND.
Joshua L. Smiley -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Thanks, Steve. Yes, if you look at volume for the third quarter in the US, it grew at 17%, which Dave and I both mentioned with the most significant volume growth we've seen this decade, and that Basaglar absolutely contributed to that growth. So the access that we got in the Medicare Part D is contributing to the 17% growth as are the other elements that we mentioned around patient access and all of the new launches. So it is a positive offset there, and you can see in total even with that negative 6% growth, US business grew to 11% overall.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thanks, Josh. Enrique?
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
As I mentioned, when I first discussed REWIND as part of the first question, it is precedent-setting because it includes some -- already of patients without cardiovascular disease. It has the longest median follow-up on a low A1C baseline. We will be sharing the detailed results at the ADA next year.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Enrique. Lola, next caller?
Operator
Next we'll go to the line Umer Raffat with Evercore.
Umer Raffat -- Evercore -- Analyst
Hi, thanks so much for taking my questions. First, maybe on the oncology side, I noticed for your IL-10 and you have decent monotherapy activity in the renal cell setting, but the randomized trials you're running are in lung and pancreatic. So just wanted to get the thought process there. Is that a consideration? And also your confidence on those open label lung trials that are coming out in first half '19. Second, on NGF, it seems like the placebo adjusted efficacy definitely faded into the latest readout. And my question is, do you look at this current placebo adjusted efficacy from this latest trial as being clinically meaningful? And also just your thoughts on the joint replacements on that trial. Thank you.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Umer. Thank you for the questions. So Dan, we'll go to you for those on the development strategy for the IL-10 and then also what we think about the efficacy results and any safety findings from the initial trial is read out for our NGF.
Daniel M. Skovronsky -- Senior VP for Science & Technology and President of Lilly Research Labs
Yes, thanks, Umer, for those good questions. So starting with the pegilodecakin, IL-10. As you point out, the randomized trial that's ongoing in Phase 3 is in pancreas. We're excited about that and look forward to seeing data there in combination with FOLFOX. The two Phase 2 studies that you mentioned are randomized trials in non-small cell lung cancer. The first one is in the first line setting in PDL-1 high patients and the second one is in the second line setting in the PDL-1 low setting, both in combination with IO. We are absolutely excited to see data from those trials starting next year, which will inform our progress in that opportunity. As for RCC, you're right that we had the monotherapy activity there in that early Phase 1 study, which was exciting and part of the basis of the (inaudible) is that this molecule is active in the monotherapy setting. I think in terms of that indication and other indications, we're still working through what our plan is. Some of that will depend on data that we get in these next couple of trials as well as the data that we already have. We hope to be able to share more with you about our plans for full development of that molecule at our December R&D Day. With respect to tanezumab, I think you had a question there on both the efficacy and the safety with respect to total joint replacements. On the efficacy, it's hard to make cross-trial comparisons. Of course, this is a different -- the population is more treatment resistant, more severe population than in those prior studies. Still, on balance, the efficacy looks quite comparable to what we would expect, maybe some small differences in the placebo group from trial to trial. But this is a small trial, and we look forward to the full results coming. But all in all, I would say the efficacy data are where we expect them to be and we're really I think excited as we said before about the potential of this molecule from an efficacy perspective. The question, of course, is, can we adequately discharge the safety risk. So the total joint replacement, there was an imbalance in this small study. We don't fully understand what drove that imbalance. I think there were a number of factors that we noticed about the imbalance in total joint replacements. One was that most of these events occurred in the follow-up period rather than the on-treatment period. Another observation is that these events were generally in the patients who were most severe at enrollment. It was in their index joints and it was not -- in general, in most cases it was not associated with any adverse event or any finding in the joint adjudication. So we'll keep eying that and of course the big readout for us with our partner Pfizer will be next year when we get that large 56-week study.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Dan. Lola, we can go to the next caller.
Operator
Certainly. Next, it's Alex Arfaei with BMO Capital.
Alex Arfaei -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Great. Thank you and congratulations on the positive REWIND readouts. First on REWIND, Enrique, June 2019 seems like a long time to wait for the results. You mentioned you plan to file the indication in 2019. So when should we expect to see a new Trulicity label? Then I have a couple of questions on Verzenio, please. The market seems to have slowed down more than we expected. Just wondering if you could give us your thoughts there. You're gaining share, which is great, but what's going on with the overall market? And we noticed you moved up the timeline for the adjuvant study by one year on clinicaltrials.gov. Just wondering if you changed anything about the trial or is it just your expectations about -- based on the powering of the study or expected benefit. Thank you very much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you for the questions, Alex. So timing for a potential label update on REWIND, Enrique, for you. And then Anne, if you'd like to handle what we're seeing for market growth for the CDK4/6 class and the change in timing on clinicaltrials.gov for the adjuvant study. Enrique?
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Well, clearly, we are planning to pursue an indication and there are submission in 2019 and a standard review. We will be looking at a label update in 2020. Of course, we are working as fast as we can to try to expedite that as much as possible and will be working with the regulatory authorities. We -- unfortunately we won't be able to share the REWIND data prior to ADA.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Enrique. And Anne?
Anne E. White -- Senior Vice President and President of Lilly Oncology
Great. Well, thanks for the question on Verzenio. And yes, we have seen some slowing in the growth of the CDK 4/6 market as others in the class have commented. However, we do still see potential for growth as more physicians trial this class and particularly as they trial Verzenio. So as you mentioned, our NBRx rate is in the high teens and we continue to be pleased with its growth. And we are encouraged by a couple of specific factors. So first, as we continue to drive trial with Verzenio in the US, what we're seeing is that when physicians trial Verzenio they have a really good experience and they're likely to prescribe it again, so becoming adopters. And what seemed to particularly resonate with physicians is the fact that patients with certain concerning clinical characteristics that indicate a poor prognosis do well on Verzenio. So these are patients with liver metastasis, a high tumor grade, visceral disease or cancer that's not confined to the bone. And so we'll be publishing that additional data shortly. We're also very enthusiastic about the fact that we've received approval in Japan and Europe, so we see those markets as significant growth drivers. And then third, related to your question around adjuvant, we do see potential future opportunity in the broader breast cancer market, following readouts in the HER2 positive population, our OS readout from the MONARCH 2 study and then very importantly, the work as you said, in adjuvant breast cancer. On adjuvant specifically, what we're seeing is that study is enrolling very well. It's more than 60% enrolled, so we're quite encouraged by that timeline. So we do expect results in 2021 and we look forward to that market because as you know, adjuvant is really twice the size of the metastatic breast cancer market, so a significant growth opportunity Lilly in the future.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Okay. Thank you, Anne. Lola, if we can go to next caller.
Operator
Certainly. Next will be David Risinger with Morgan Stanley. Mr. Risinger?
David Risinger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Yes. Sorry I was on mute. Can you hear me now?
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
We can, yes, Dave.
David Risinger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Okay, great. So Lilly's volume growth has been, and is, set to continue to be very strong. But could you please comment on three quick questions on pricing? First, the list price outlook for 2019 that you have in your planning assumptions; second, your exposure to a step-up in the donut hole fill in 2019; and third, your exposure to growth in copay accumulators in 2019. Thanks very much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Dave. Thank you for the questions. Josh, if you'd like to answer those questions on expectations moving forward on price.
Joshua L. Smiley -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
So Dave, we'll do our guidance for 2019 in December and will provide our pricing assumptions then. I can tell you for 2018, for the guidance that we gave we're not assuming any additional price increases this year. In terms of exposure to the change in the donut hole provision, we've said before that when we look across our portfolio, it's about $200 million of incremental impact in 2019. And then on the copay accumulators piece, of course these impact the specialty drugs, particularly Taltz and Forteo for now, and we're -- at least where we are right now, we're comfortable that there is not a significant exposure here.
David A. Ricks -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Just maybe a follow-on comment on that. I've seen notes from analysts as well as other industry commentators that roughly, in specialty segments, these are single digit impacts in terms of patients actually exposed to the out-of-pocket costs of copay accumulators, net of industry actions and payer actions. And that's not really different for us with Taltz, which is the major product affected. So it's an issue, but it's not a huge driver of the overall picture.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thanks, Dave. Lola, if we can go to the next caller.
Operator
Certainly. And it will be Vamil Divan with Credit Suisse.
Vamil Divan -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Hi. Great. Thanks for taking my questions. So one just on Olumiant, looks like still pretty good European uptick, but sort of limited uptick in the first few months in the market in the US. So if you can just talk about sort of access and sort of initial physician interest in that product. And then the other one is just maybe a little bit of a different product we don't talk much about, it's Lartruvo. This is still one of your newer medications but I think it's asked about a little less. And I'm just trying to get a better sense of that market. I mean, the growth is still there in US, but slowing a little bit. And I'm just trying to get a better sense of how penetrated you think that product is into that market, and maybe a little bit more on the longer-term potential for that one to keep growing. Thanks so much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Vamil. Thank you for the question. So Christi, if you'd like to talk about what we're seeing in terms of uptick, access and physician experience here in the US, and then, Anne, over to you for what we're seeing with Lartruvo and the market opportunity there.
Christi Shaw -- Senior Vice President and President
Sure. So thank you for the question, Vamil. In terms of Olumiant, I will start with the EU, as you suggested, or outside the US. The growth of Olumiant volume in Europe in the last two quarters has actually been the fastest growing in volume for Lilly as a whole. And in Japan, we just were lifted in September on the two-week prescription. So we're seeing significant uptake now that that restriction is off. And in the US, we are getting a lot of usage in terms of the uptake. We are giving samples in the office to physicians, so you won't see that on the uptake. But more importantly, what we're hearing from physicians is that their patients are having really positive feedback on our speed of onset just like we saw in Europe and the other 50 countries where we've launched, the efficacy continues to deliver and really helping patients with that early onset of symptom relief, so they can get back to the productive days of life, which is significant. And as the physicians see those patients come back, it truly is changing and then helps them obviously feel more comfortable in prescribing as well. And you know, Olumiant is really key for us. It's not just in the US RA, but we continue to evolve the indications for Olumiant. We have three Phase 3 studies obviously that we're recruiting for: in an atopic dermatitis, in lupus and a Phase 2/3 adaptive study in alopecia areata. So as those readouts come out as well, we'll be looking for significant uptake of Olumiant and helping a lot of patients with high unmet need.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Christi. Anne?
Anne E. White -- Senior Vice President and President of Lilly Oncology
Yes. So we are pleased with the uptake on Lartruvo, and it has been steadily increasing since launch. So as you saw the year-to-date, so we've had a 54% increase over last year, and just a 41% increase in this quarter. And Lartruvo is the market leader now in the US in first-line metastatic soft tissue sarcoma. It has about a 20% market share. And then we were excited to see that it's now the market leader in the dox-eligible patients, passing dox (inaudible) this year at a 36% share of market. And as you know well, I mean, it's the only medicine in four decades that actually helps patient live longer when compared to dox alone. So we're also encouraged by the fact that we're seeing thought leaders fairly routinely refer to it as the standard of care and growth in our top accounts particularly is very strong. In fact, 97% of the top 100 institutions have now posted sales since launch of Lartruvo. We are still seeing launch in Europe and still gaining access, so we still think there is potential for growth obviously in that market. Our major focus really is on driving awareness in the community and in the centers of excellence where a lot of these key treatment decisions are made. So we do still see quite a bit of potential for growth of Lartruvo, though I will acknowledge it's an orphan disease population and so at one point we will see penetration. But we don't see that yet. We still see good potential for growth and are pleased on how we're doing.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Okay. Thank you, Anne. Lola, if we can go to the next caller, please.
Operator
Yes. It will be Louise Chen with Cantor Fitzgerald.
Louise Alesandra Chen -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Hi, thanks for taking my two questions. So my first question is on REWIND. Has this met your internal expectation for relative risk reduction and have you historically talked about what kind of incremental sales opportunity it could mean for you? And then secondly on the injectable CGRP. So how do you see this market landscape playing out with three approved products and more to come on the injectable and oral sides? Do you think it will grow the entire market or take share from existing products? Thank you.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Hi, Louise, thank you for the questions. So Enrique, another question on REWIND for you, and then Christi, on the CGRP question, please.
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
On the expectations, of course, this is a positive trial, Trulicity showing superiority in a broad range of patients with type 2 diabetes.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Okay. Thank you. Christi?
Christi Shaw -- Senior Vice President and President
Yes. So we are extremely excited about the migraine marketplace. I mean, you're seeing, as we've been discussing over the last year, a high unmet need with now tens of thousands of patients already being prescribed (inaudible) now. And we are --I don't think I've talked to you since we actually received our label. So we're really happy with the label received in terms of our differentiation. We have the 50%, 75% and 100% migraine free data that we're able to promote. Also our positive outcomes for functional measures, which is unique for Emgality is in the label. And we just presented data at the American Headache Society that Emgality works fast, are injection dose and so patients can actually get the medication quickly and they get it in the doctor's office, where they teach them how to do the auto injector, they do it themselves and then they go and take it once a month then on. Lastly, the other differentiation is we've got the breakthrough therapy designation in cluster, and we're very excited about that for patients who have had no treatment -- no approved treatment in that suicide headache population. So as we look at the marketplace, we see it continuing to grow. We like our chances in terms of being able to compete. And with the competitive agents in oral -- agents coming out next year, those right now are in a different class that will compete with lasmiditan and not the preventive therapies initially. So with the entire franchise we have in migraine of both preventative and acute, we think we're a leader, and we know we're a leader in pain and migraine and we'll continue to prove it out over time.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Christi. Lola, if you can go to the next caller.
Operator
And next we'll go to the line of Seamus Fernandez with Guggenheim Securities.
Seamus Fernandez -- Guggenheim Securities -- Analyst
Thanks very much for the question. So just a couple. Can you help us understand a little bit the opportunity for Emgality in cluster headache specifically? Is this a new -- large, new patient population that we should be thinking about? Or is it more an indication that will firm up your -- and differentiate your market position? And then second, Enrique, can you talk more about the international growth opportunity for the GLP-1 class overall? When I look at the class, we're looking at about a third of sales relative to the US and frankly, when we look at other large classes, the opportunity seems to be like it would be quite a big crater and I just would love to know what you see as the opportunity internationally or perhaps what the holdbacks are. Thanks so much.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Seamus. Thank you for the questions, and welcome back to you as well. Good to hear your voice on the line. Christi, if you'll take the question on the opportunity for cluster for Emgality, and then Enrique for the international growth opportunity for the GLP-1 class.
Christi Shaw -- Senior Vice President and President
Thank you, Seamus, for the question. As I said earlier, we are so excited to help these patients with cluster. And although the number of patients who have clusters is obviously significantly less than the general moderate-to-severe migraine population, it is such a high unmet need that we're privileged to provide that for patients. And the second part of your question, I think it's good for that, but it's also obviously confirming again the efficacy of Emgality. As I stated before, Emgality is the only one who actually demonstrated efficacy and a 100% of -- being able to relieve 100% of migraines in any given month. And that efficacy, now coupled with cluster, which is significant, no one has ever showed efficacy, that halo effect across Emgality and migraine, we expect will be a benefit.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Christi. Enrique?
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
So there is a significant opportunity, just like in the US, outside of the US for the GLP-1 class. The GLP-1 class is growing in the mid 20s outside of the US in most markets. So very healthy growth. Something unique when we look at the international market is the size of the basal insulin market, which as we know represents significant opportunity as we see GLP-1 being the injectables of choice -- first injectables prior to basal insulin. So a very significant opportunity, but we see that playing out over time.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thanks, Enrique. Appreciate it. We can go to the next caller, please, Lola.
Operator
Certainly. It will be Steve Scala with Cowen.
Steve Scala -- Cowen -- Analyst
Thank you. A couple of questions. Regarding dropping the N3PG plus BACE in Alzheimer's disease, the early data was great. So what was the reason for dropping the product and it was mentioned that monotherapy continues, but I thought the monotherapy was discontinued earlier this year. Or has the monotherapy restarted? So that's the first question. Second question is on Jardiance. Why are you not filing for type 1 diabetes as an insulin adjunct in 2018 given the positive data? I think that had been the expectation that you would file this year. Thank you.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great, Steve, thank you for the questions. Dan, if you'd like to answer where we are with the N3PG and BACE combo and N3PG more broadly, and then, Enrique, if you'd like to take the type 1 filing question. Dan?
Daniel M. Skovronsky -- Senior VP for Science & Technology and President of Lilly Research Labs
Thanks, Steve. Sorry for the confusion there. So on the N3PG BACE, we've dropped the BACE arm of this trial. So N3PG does continue. The decision to drop BACE is based on a couple of factors. One was, what we've seen across the field was various BACE inhibitors where these drugs don't have a benefit, may actually cause some increased rate of cognitive worsening. With our particular BACE inhibitor, we did see some increases in psychiatric adverse events that gave us some pause as well as some changes on imaging, an increased rate of brain shrinkage. So that was the basis for the decision to discontinue BACE, despite, as you said, great preclinical data showing combination of BACE inhibition and N3PG to be beneficial on mice. N3PG, however, which is our plaque clearing antibody which really shows I think deep and rapid clearance of amyloid plaque in brain continues on in this Phase 2 study. This is designed to demonstrate evidence of efficacy, and we're really excited about that.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Great. Thank you, Dan. Enrique?
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Yes, on Jardiance and type 1, clearly as far as the EASE studies, we showed that Jardiance as an adjunct to insulin in patients with type 1 can have additional level of glycemic control. And we saw this across all doses that we basically studied. At this point in time, we are working with BI on the regulatory next steps and we hope to be able to share more shortly.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Thank you, Enrique. Lola, next caller, please.
Operator
And at this time, there is no one in queue.
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Fantastic. Dave, then if you'd like to go ahead and conclude the call with some final remarks.
David A. Ricks -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Great. Thanks, Phil. Well, we appreciate your participation in today's earnings call and your interest in Eli Lilly and Company. Our strong execution through the first nine months of 2018 highlights the continued progress toward, and the increasing confidence in, the delivery of our revenue and profitability goals for 2020. We have seen continued pipeline progression, including our 10th new product launch since 2014, compelling late-stage opportunities for tirzepatide, mirikizumab and pegilodecakin and superiority of Trulicity and the ambitious REWIND CV outcomes study. This progress underscores the opportunities for growth beyond 2020. We look forward to providing a more detailed update on our pipeline during our December 19th investor meeting. Thanks again for dialing in. Please follow up with our IR team if you have questions we have not addressed on the call. Hope everyone has a great day.
Operator
And ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude your conference for today. Thank you for your participation and using AT&T Executive Teleconference. You may now disconnect.
Duration: 64 minutes
Call participants:
David A. Ricks -- Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Joshua L. Smiley -- Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Philip Johnson -- Vice President of Investor Relations
Christopher Schott -- J.P. Morgan -- Analyst
Enrique A. Conterno -- Senior Vice President and President
Tim Anderson -- Wolfe Research -- Analyst
Andrew Baum -- Citi -- Analyst
Jason Gerberry -- Bank of America -- Analyst
Christi Shaw -- Senior Vice President and President
Daniel M. Skovronsky -- Senior VP for Science & Technology and President of Lilly Research Labs
Sylvia Abraham -- Barclays -- Analyst
Stephen Michael Scala -- Cowen and Company -- Analyst
Umer Raffat -- Evercore -- Analyst
Alex Arfaei -- BMO Capital Markets -- Analyst
Anne E. White -- Senior Vice President and President of Lilly Oncology
David Risinger -- Morgan Stanley -- Analyst
Vamil Divan -- Credit Suisse -- Analyst
Louise Alesandra Chen -- Cantor Fitzgerald -- Analyst
Seamus Fernandez -- Guggenheim Securities -- Analyst
Steve Scala -- Cowen -- Analyst
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