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CVS Health beats estimates, raises guidance on insurance recovery and Eli Lilly collaboration

8/6/2026

CVS Health beat Wall Street estimates and raised its guidance, citing continued improvement in the company's insurance unit as the key driver.

The company also announced a collaboration with Eli Lilly to make Zepbound and Foundayo accessible to eligible patients on the CVS Health app.

Insurance unit: the segment behind the raised outlook The insurance unit's ongoing improvement is what CVS Health credited for both the analyst estimate beat and the revised guidance.

A guidance hike following a consensus beat signals that management expects the forces behind the outperformance to hold, not reverse.

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