Eli Lilly and Company

LLY

Drug Manufacturers - General · Healthcare

Also trades as: LLY.DE · LLY.SW

Price

$1254.77

+10.37 (+0.83%)

Market Cap

$1.18T

Winston Score

Winston is happy

An exceptional business — strong profitability, growth, and balance sheet.

Data as of Aug 23, 2026 · filings through Jun 30, 2026

How the score breaks down

Quality

Exceptional

Growth

Exceptional

Cash Flow

Exceptional

Stability

Strong

Valuation

Good

Dividends

Good

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Share count falling — buybacks

−5.8% over 4y

The company has reduced its share count over this period, returning value to shareholders through buybacks.

Diluted shares outstanding: 953.7M (2021) → 898.0M (2025)

Winston Score History

The full picture

Eli Lilly is a large pharmaceutical company that discovers, makes, and sells prescription medicines. Its biggest products right now are Mounjaro and Zepbound for diabetes and weight loss, plus Verzenio for breast cancer and Jardiance for diabetes. Doctors and hospitals are the main customers, and patients use these drugs to treat serious chronic conditions.

Lilly makes money by selling branded prescription drugs, mostly at high prices protected by patents. It operates globally, with a large share of revenue coming from the United States, and it is one of the largest drug companies in the world by market value. Its main competitive advantage is its patent-protected drug portfolio and a strong pipeline of new medicines in development. The biggest growth driver is demand for its GLP-1 weight-loss and diabetes drugs, which has been enormous, but the main risk is that patents eventually expire, opening the door to cheaper generic competition.

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Growth Profile

For growth stock investors

When traditional metrics don't capture the full picture, these are the signals growth stock investors use instead.

Revenue Growth

+47.7% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Revenue accelerating

EPS Growth

+26.2% YoY

YoY Growth Rate

Strong earnings growth

R&D Spend

$13.3B/ year

↑ Rising (+21% vs prior year)

20.5% of revenue

In line with sector average (18%)

Investing heavily in future products and technology

Insider Activity

10.1%ownership

→ Flat

Insider ownership roughly steady over the past year

Cash Position

Cash flow positive

$12.8B cash & investments

Quarterly Free Cash Flow

↑ Burn rate improving

Company generates more cash than it spends — no dilution risk from fundraising

Revenue accelerating

Eli Lilly and Company grew revenue 48% year-over-year and the growth rate is speeding up. That's the kind of momentum growth investors look for — the question is whether margins can follow.

The Winston Score above measures business quality today. Growth stocks often score lower because they invest in the future rather than maximising current profits. These metrics show what matters most for evaluating that future.

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Quality

Profit per sale

Gross Margin

85.8%

Premium pricing power — 85.8% gross margin

Profit after running costs

Operating Margin

39.1%

Excellent — 39.1% operating margin

Return on the money invested

ROCE

39.4%

Exceptional — 39.4% return on capital

ROIC above 25%. Every dollar invested in the business earns more than 25 cents back per year.

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Growth

Sales growth

Sales YoY

+49.6%

Fast-growing sales (+49.6% YoY)

Profit growth

EPS YoY

+94.3%

Earnings growing fast (+94.3% YoY)

Earnings growing 25%+ a year. The compounder zone.

How steady the profit is

EPS Consistency

8/8 quarters

Every recent quarter grew earnings vs last year

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Cash Flow

Profit that turns into cash

Cash Conversion

105%

Turns 105% of profit into real cash

Spare cash per sale

FCF Margin

25.2%

Converts sales into free cash efficiently (25.2%)

Free cash flow margin above 20%. Out of every $100 in sales, more than $20 is real cash they keep.

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Stability

What it owes vs what it owns

Debt / Equity

1.62

Elevated debt (1.62)

Covers its interest

Interest Cover

35.72x

Comfortably covers interest (35.7x)

Interest coverage above 8. Profits cover interest many times over.

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Valuation

Price vs profit

P/E Ratio (TTM)

42.0x

Pricey — P/E 42.0

P/E over 35. The market is pricing in heavy, sustained growth.

Cheaper or dearer next year

P/E vs Forward

+18.6

GROWING

Earnings expected to grow meaningfully — cheaper on forward P/E (42.0 → 23.4)

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Dividends

Dividend

Dividend Yield

0.53%

Small dividend — 0.53% yield

Modest yield. The bulk of any return needs to come from price appreciation.

Dividend record

Dividend Growth

+15.3%

Dividend growing fast (15.3% YoY)

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