How to buy Eli Lilly and Company stock | 140.59

Eli Lilly and Company is a drug manufacturers—general business based in the US. Eli Lilly and Company shares (LLY) are listed on the NYSE and all prices are listed in US Dollars. Eli Lilly and Company employs 35,065 staff and has a trailing 12-month revenue of around USD$23.2 billion.

How to buy shares in Eli Lilly and Company

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2. Open and fund your brokerage account. Complete an application with your personal and financial details, like your ID and bank information. Fund your account with a bank transfer, credit card or debit card.
3. Search for Eli Lilly and Company. Find the stock by name or ticker symbol: LLY. Research its history to confirm it's a solid investment against your financial goals.
4. Purchase now or later. Buy today with a market order or use a limit order to delay your purchase until Eli Lilly and Company reaches your desired price. To spread out your purchase, look into dollar-cost averaging, which smooths out buying at consistent intervals and amounts.
5. Decide on how many to buy. At last close price of USD$140.59, weigh your budget against a diversified portfolio that can minimize risk through the market's ups and downs. You may be able to buy a fractional share of Eli Lilly and Company, depending on your broker.
6. Check in on your investment. Congratulations, you own a part of Eli Lilly and Company. Optimize your portfolio by tracking how your stock — and even the business — performs with an eye on the long term. You may be eligible for dividends and shareholder voting rights on directors and management that can affect your stock.

How has coronavirus impacted Eli Lilly and Company's share price?

Since the stock market crash in March caused by coronavirus, Eli Lilly and Company's share price has had significant negative movement.

Its last market close was USD$140.59, which is 1.02% down on its pre-crash value of USD$142.04 and 20.10% up on the lowest point reached during the March crash when the shares fell as low as USD$117.06.

If you had bought USD$1,000 worth of Eli Lilly and Company shares at the start of February 2020, those shares would have been worth USD$844.06 at the bottom of the March crash, and if you held on to them, then as of the last market close they'd be worth USD$996.78.

Eli Lilly and Company share price

Use our graph to track the performance of LLY stocks over time.

Eli Lilly and Company shares at a glance

• Key figures

Information last updated 2020-11-23.

Latest market close	USD$140.59
52-week range	USD$113.6485 - USD$169.0637
50-day moving average	USD$142.9446
200-day moving average	USD$151.6248
Wall St. target price	USD$165.88
PE ratio	23.8508
Dividend yield	USD$2.96 (2.03%)
Earnings per share (TTM)	USD$6.112

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Eli Lilly and Company price performance over time

Historical closes compared with the close of $140.59 from 2020-11-16

1 week (2020-11-19)	-1.97%
1 month (2020-10-27)	6.59%
3 months (2020-08-26)	-5.81%
6 months (2020-05-26)	-4.98%

1 year (2019-11-26)	20.07%
2 years (2018-11-26)	25.10%
3 years (2017-11-24)	67.31%
5 years (2015-11-25)	67.89%

Is Eli Lilly and Company under- or over-valued?

Valuing Eli Lilly and Company stock is incredibly difficult, and any metric has to be viewed as part of a bigger picture of Eli Lilly and Company's overall performance. However, analysts commonly use some key metrics to help gauge the value of a stock.

Eli Lilly and Company's P/E ratio

Eli Lilly and Company's current share price divided by its per-share earnings (EPS) over a 12-month period gives a "trailing price/earnings ratio" of roughly 24x. In other words, Eli Lilly and Company shares trade at around 24x recent earnings.

That's relatively low compared to, say, the trailing 12-month P/E ratio for the NASDAQ 100 at the end of 2019 (27.29). The low P/E ratio could mean that investors are pessimistic about the outlook for the shares or simply that they're under-valued.

Eli Lilly and Company's PEG ratio

Eli Lilly and Company's "price/earnings-to-growth ratio" can be calculated by dividing its P/E ratio by its growth – to give 1.1345. A low ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer better value, while a higher ratio can be interpreted as meaning the shares offer worse value.

The PEG ratio provides a broader view than just the P/E ratio, as it gives more insight into Eli Lilly and Company's future profitability. By accounting for growth, it could also help you if you're comparing the share prices of multiple high-growth companies.

Eli Lilly and Company's EBITDA

Eli Lilly and Company's EBITDA (earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation) is USD$7.7 billion.

The EBITDA is a measure of a Eli Lilly and Company's overall financial performance and is widely used to measure a its profitability.

Eli Lilly and Company financials

Revenue TTM	USD$23.2 billion
Operating margin TTM	27.76%
Gross profit TTM	USD$17.6 billion
Return on assets TTM	9.84%
Return on equity TTM	131.77%
Profit margin	24.01%
Book value	$5.325
Market capitalisation	USD$135.6 billion

TTM: trailing 12 months

Shorting Eli Lilly and Company shares

There are currently 4.9 million Eli Lilly and Company shares held short by investors – that's known as Eli Lilly and Company's "short interest". This figure is 29.7% up from 3.8 million last month.

There are a few different ways that this level of interest in shorting Eli Lilly and Company shares can be evaluated.

Eli Lilly and Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR)

Eli Lilly and Company's "short interest ratio" (SIR) is the quantity of Eli Lilly and Company shares currently shorted divided by the average quantity of Eli Lilly and Company shares traded daily (recently around 4.0 million). Eli Lilly and Company's SIR currently stands at 1.22. In other words for every 100,000 Eli Lilly and Company shares traded daily on the market, roughly 1220 shares are currently held short.

However Eli Lilly and Company's short interest can also be evaluated against the total number of Eli Lilly and Company shares, or, against the total number of tradable Eli Lilly and Company shares (the shares that aren't held by "insiders" or major long-term shareholders – also known as the "float"). In this case Eli Lilly and Company's short interest could be expressed as 0.01% of the outstanding shares (for every 100,000 Eli Lilly and Company shares in existence, roughly 10 shares are currently held short) or 0.0062% of the tradable shares (for every 100,000 tradable Eli Lilly and Company shares, roughly 6 shares are currently held short).

Such a low SIR usually points to an optimistic outlook for the share price, with fewer people currently willing to bet against Eli Lilly and Company.

Find out more about how you can short Eli Lilly and Company stock.

Eli Lilly and Company's environmental, social and governance track record

Environmental, social and governance (known as ESG) criteria are a set of three factors used to measure the sustainability and social impact of companies like Eli Lilly and Company.

When it comes to ESG scores, lower is better, and lower scores are generally associated with lower risk for would-be investors.

Eli Lilly and Company's total ESG risk score

Total ESG risk: 32.36

Socially conscious investors use ESG scores to screen how an investment aligns with their worldview, and Eli Lilly and Company's overall score of 32.36 (as at 01/01/2019) is pretty weak – landing it in it in the 70th percentile of companies rated in the same sector.

ESG scores are increasingly used to estimate the level of risk a company like Eli Lilly and Company is exposed to within the areas of "environmental" (carbon footprint, resource use etc.), "social" (health and safety, human rights etc.), and "governance" (anti-corruption, tax transparency etc.).

Eli Lilly and Company's environmental score

Environmental score: 0.63/100

Eli Lilly and Company's environmental score of 0.63 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Eli Lilly and Company is a leader in its sector terms of its environmental impact, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Eli Lilly and Company's social score

Social score: 16.68/100

Eli Lilly and Company's social score of 16.68 puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. This could suggest that Eli Lilly and Company is a leader in its sector when it comes to taking good care of its workforce and the communities it impacts.

Eli Lilly and Company's governance score

Governance score: 13.31/100

Eli Lilly and Company's governance score puts it squarely in the 1st percentile of companies rated in the same sector. That could suggest that Eli Lilly and Company is a leader in its sector when it comes to responsible management and strategy, and exposed to a lower level of risk.

Eli Lilly and Company's controversy score

Controversy score: 3/5

ESG scores also evaluate any incidences of controversy that a company has been involved in. Eli Lilly and Company scored a 3 out of 5 for controversy – a middle-of-the-table result reflecting that Eli Lilly and Company hasn't always managed to keep its nose clean.

Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) summary

Eli Lilly and Company was last rated for ESG on: 2019-01-01.

Total ESG score	32.36
Total ESG percentile	70.22
Environmental score	0.63
Environmental score percentile	1
Social score	16.68
Social score percentile	1
Governance score	13.31
Governance score percentile	1
Level of controversy	3

Eli Lilly and Company share dividends

Dividend payout ratio: 42.84% of net profits

Recently Eli Lilly and Company has paid out, on average, around 42.84% of net profits as dividends. That has enabled analysts to estimate a "forward annual dividend yield" of 2.03% of the current stock value. This means that over a year, based on recent payouts (which are sadly no guarantee of future payouts), Eli Lilly and Company shareholders could enjoy a 2.03% return on their shares, in the form of dividend payments. In Eli Lilly and Company's case, that would currently equate to about $2.96 per share.

While Eli Lilly and Company's payout ratio might seem fairly standard, it's worth remembering that Eli Lilly and Company may be investing much of the rest of its net profits in future growth.

Eli Lilly and Company's most recent dividend payout was on 10 December 2020. The latest dividend was paid out to all shareholders who bought their shares by 12 November 2020 (the "ex-dividend date").

Have Eli Lilly and Company's shares ever split?

Eli Lilly and Company's shares were split on a 2:1 basis on 16 October 1997. So if you had owned 1 share the day before before the split, the next day you'd have owned 2 shares. This wouldn't directly have changed the overall worth of your Eli Lilly and Company shares – just the quantity. However, indirectly, the new 50% lower share price could have impacted the market appetite for Eli Lilly and Company shares which in turn could have impacted Eli Lilly and Company's share price.

Eli Lilly and Company share price volatility

Over the last 12 months, Eli Lilly and Company's shares have ranged in value from as little as $113.6485 up to $169.0637. A popular way to gauge a stock's volatility is its "beta".

Beta is a measure of a share's volatility in relation to the market. The market (NYSE average) beta is 1, while Eli Lilly and Company's is 0.2672. This would suggest that Eli Lilly and Company's shares are less volatile than average (for this exchange).

Eli Lilly and Company overview

Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets pharmaceutical products worldwide. It offers endocrinology products for diabetes; osteoporosis in postmenopausal women and men; and human growth hormone deficiency and paediatric growth conditions. The company also provides neuroscience products for treating depressive disorder, diabetic peripheral neuropathic pain, anxiety disorder, fibromyalgia, and chronic musculoskeletal pain; migraine and episodic cluster headache; attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; and schizophrenia. In addition, it offers immunology products for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, plaque psoriasis, psoriatic arthritis, and ankylosing spondylitis; oncology products to treat non-small cell lung, colorectal, head and neck, pancreatic, metastatic breast, ovarian, bladder, and metastatic gastric cancers, as well as malignant pleural mesothelioma; and products to treat erectile dysfunction and benign prostatic hyperplasia. Eli Lilly and Company primarily has collaborations with Incyte Corporation; Pfizer Inc.; Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; AC Immune SA; Centrexion Therapeutics Corporation; ImmuNext, Inc.; Avidity Biosciences, Inc.; Duke Clinical Research Institute for the prevention of chronic heart failure and mortality after an acute myocardial infarction; AbCellera Biologics Inc.; and Sermonix Pharmaceuticals Inc., as well as an agreement with Junshi Biosciences to co-develop therapeutic antibodies for the potential prevention and treatment of COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 novel coronavirus. The company was founded in 1876 and is headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Frequently asked questions

• What percentage of Eli Lilly and Company is owned by insiders or institutions?

  Currently 0.16% of Eli Lilly and Company shares are held by insiders and 79.221% by institutions.

• How many people work for Eli Lilly and Company?

  Latest data suggests 35,065 work at Eli Lilly and Company.

• When does the fiscal year end for Eli Lilly and Company?

  Eli Lilly and Company's fiscal year ends in December.

• Where is Eli Lilly and Company based?

  Eli Lilly and Company's address is: Lilly Corporate Center, Indianapolis, IN, United States, 46285

• What is Eli Lilly and Company's ISIN number?

  Eli Lilly and Company's international securities identification number is: US5324571083

• What is Eli Lilly and Company's CUSIP number?

  Eli Lilly and Company's Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures number is: 532457108