Lilly(Eli) & Co (NYSE: LLY) is 11.04% higher on its value in year-to-date trading and has touched a low of $711.40 and a high of $972.53 in the current 52-week trading range. The question becomes, what are the chances the stock will continue to grow shareholders’ wealth in the market. Here’s what analysts think will happen to its price in the coming time. The LLY stock was last observed hovering at around $844.27 in the last trading session, with the day’s gains setting it 12.93%.
Currently trading at $857.20, the stock is 3.86% and 7.20% above its SMA20 and SMA50 respectively. However, with a daily trading volume of 3.94 million and changing 1.53% at the moment leaves the stock 1.25% off its SMA200. LLY registered 13.19% gain for a year compared to 6-month loss of -7.98%.
The stock witnessed a 13.15% gain in the last 1 month and extending the period to 3 months gives it a 5.59%, and is -1.34% down over the last 5 days. If we measure the stock’s price variations over the week and the month, we find that the volatility rates stand at 2.21% over the week and 2.69% over the month.
Lilly(Eli) & Co (LLY) has around 43000 employees, a market worth around $813.75B and $45.04B in sales. Current P/E ratio is 73.15 and Fwd P/E is 29.43. Profit margin for the company is 23.51%. Distance from 52-week low is 20.49% and -11.86% from its 52-week high. The company has generated returns on investments over the last 12 months (24.47%).
with sales reaching $12.78B over the same period.The EPS is expected to grow by 76.38% this year, but quarterly earnings will post 31.10% year-over-year. Quarterly sales are estimated to grow 45.75% in year-over-year returns.
Lilly(Eli) & Co (LLY) Top Institutional Holders
The shares outstanding are 949.32M, and float is at 850.40M with Short Float at 0.80%.
The top institutional shareholder in the company is LILLY ENDOWMENT INC with over 97.37 million shares valued at $88.15 billion. The investor’s holdings represent 10.8078% of the LLY Shares outstanding. As of 2024-06-30, the second largest holder is VANGUARD GROUP INC with 73.86 million shares valued at $66.87 billion to account for 8.1993 of the shares outstanding. The other top investors are BLACKROCK INC. which holds 65.86 million shares representing 7.3109% and valued at over $59.62 billion, while PNC FINANCIAL SERVICES GROUP, INC. holds 5.7066 of the shares totaling 51.4 million with a market value of $46.54 billion.
Lilly(Eli) & Co (LLY) Insider Activity
The most recent transaction is an insider sale by LILLY ENDOWMENT INC, the company’s 10% Owner. SEC filings show that LILLY ENDOWMENT INC sold 35,446 shares of the company’s common stock on Feb 13 ’25 at a price of $879.52 per share for a total of $31.18 million. Following the sale, the insider now owns 96.65 million shares.
Still, SEC filings show that on Feb 10 ’25, Skovronsky Daniel (EVP, CSO & Pres. LRL & LLY Imm) disposed off 5,000 shares at an average price of $863.21 for $4.32 million. The insider now directly holds 117,888 shares of Lilly(Eli) & Co (LLY).
