In the latest trading session,, 1.04 million Lilly(Eli) & Co (NYSE:LLY) shares changed hands as the company’s beta touched 0.40. With the company’s most recent per share price at $795.81 changing hands around $22.1 or 2.86% at last look, the market valuation stands at $754.22B. LLY’s current price is a discount, trading about -22.21% off its 52-week high of $972.53. The share price had its 52-week low at $677.09, which suggests the last value was 14.92% up since then. When we look at Lilly(Eli) & Co’s average trading volume, we note the 10-day average is 3.27 million shares, with the 3-month average coming to 4.12 million.
Analysts gave the Lilly(Eli) & Co (LLY) stock a consensus recommendation rating of Buy, calculated at a mean rating of 1.52. If we narrow down to specifics, the data shows that 0 out of 19 analysts rate the stock as a Sell, with a further 0 assigning it an Overweight rating. Of the remaining, 2 recommended LLY as a Hold, 17 felt it is a Buy and 0 rated the stock as Underweight.
Lilly(Eli) & Co (NYSE:LLY) trade information
Instantly LLY is in green as seen in intraday trades today. With action 6.00%, the performance over the past five days has been green. The company’s shares are showing year-to-date upside of 3.08%, with the 5-day performance at 6.00% in the green. However, in the 30-day time frame, Lilly(Eli) & Co (NYSE:LLY) is 8.34% up. Looking at the short shares, we see there were 7.35 million shares sold at short interest cover period of 1.46 days.
The consensus price target for the stock as assigned by Wall Street analysts is 970, meaning bulls need an upside of 17.96% from its recent market value. According to analyst projections, LLY’s forecast low is 700 with 1146 as the target high. To hit the forecast high, the stock’s price needs a -44.0% plunge from its current level, while the stock would need to tank 12.04% for it to hit the projected low.
Looking at the company’s year-on-year earnings, data shows that the past 5-year has an earnings growth rate of 18.77%. The 2025 estimates are for Lilly(Eli) & Co earnings to increase by 67.82%, but the outlook for the next 5-year period is at 41.42% per year.
LLY Dividends
Lilly(Eli) & Co is expected to release its next quarterly earnings report on 2025-Apr-30. The 0.70% annual yield figure for the share gives it an annual dividend of 5.60. It is important to note, however, that the 0.70% dividend yield ratio should serve as a guide only, as you should also take into consideration many other aspects of a company’s operations and fundamentals before making any investment decision. During the past 5 years, the average dividend yield was 1.11 per year.
Lilly(Eli) & Co (NYSE:LLY)’s Major holders
If we look at who the major shareholders are, we find that insiders hold 0.16% of Lilly(Eli) & Co shares while 84.08% of the shares are in the hands of institutional holders. The share float percentage for the stock currently stands at 84.21%. There are 84.08% institutions holding the Lilly(Eli) & Co stock share, with LILLY ENDOWMENT INC the top institutional holder. As of 2024-06-30, the company held 10.8078% of the shares, roughly 97.37 million LLY shares worth $88.15 billion.
VANGUARD GROUP INC holds the second largest percentage of outstanding shares, with 8.1984% or 73.86 million shares worth $66.87 billion as of 2024-06-30.
Among Mutual Funds, the top two as of Mar 31, 2025 were VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund and VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund . With 26.96 shares estimated at $21.45 billion under it, the former controlled 2.84% of total outstanding shares. On the other hand, VANGUARD INDEX FUNDS-Vanguard 500 Index Fund held about 2.31% of the shares, roughly 21.89 shares worth around $17.42 billion.
