Eli Lilly and Company

LLY · Healthcare

$1,177.03
+0.83% today

What a holder would want to know before buying LLY: where the price sits in its own history, how far it has fallen before and whether it recovered, and what the business behind it earns. All of it is arithmetic over free market data — no opinions, no recommendations.

Where the price sits
Low $799.57 · Oct 2025High $1,280.34 · Aug 2026

Today’s price is 47% above the lowest point of the past year and 8% below the highest.

Over the past year it was cheaper than today on 85% of days and more expensive on 15%. Over the last 10 years: cheaper on 99% of days.

10% above its average price of the last 200 trading days.

How bad does it get

Fell 20% or more 4 times in 10 years. The deepest fall was 35%; the longest took 14 months to get back to its peak. Every one recovered.

Now 8% below the Aug 2026 peak.

Nov 2025
−23%back in 6 months
Aug 2024
−35%back in 14 months
Jul 2020
−23%back in 5 months
Jul 2016
−21%back in 7 months
What you own

Eli Lilly and Company · Healthcare · Drug Manufacturers - General · a mega-cap worth $1.05T

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets human pharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, and internationally. The company offers cardiometabolic health products,…

Is it making money?
2022
2023
2024
2025

revenue profit

Sales of $65.18B in 2025, with $20.64B of profit. Sales grew in 3 of the last 3 years.

Keeps about 34 cents of every dollar of sales as profit.

Is it healthy?
Cash
$8.95B
Debt
$54.91B
Free cash flow / yr
$11.07B

Would need about 5 years of free cash flow to repay all its debt.

Is it expensive?

You pay $40 for every $1 of last year’s profit, and $25 for every $1 of profit expected next year.

A high number means buyers expect growth; a low one means they expect little, or fear trouble. Large US companies have averaged roughly 15–20 over the decades.

Pays 0.59% a year in dividends at today’s price · next ex-dividend Aug 14.

What others are doing

30 analysts: 25 say buy, 3 hold, 2 sell. Their average 12-month target is $1,330.14 (range $930.00–$1,600.00).

Insiders made 0 purchases and 5 sales in the last 6 months. Executives routinely sell shares they were paid in; buying with their own money is the rarer signal.

Free data from Yahoo Finance, refreshed daily. This is evidence about the business and its price history, not a recommendation.

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