NYSE:LLY - Eli Lilly And Co Stock Price, Forecast & News

Eli Lilly And Co trades on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the ticker symbol "LLY."

Eli Lilly And Co announced a quarterly dividend on Monday, December 16th. Stockholders of record on Friday, February 14th will be paid a dividend of $0.74 per share on Tuesday, March 10th. This represents a $2.96 annualized dividend and a dividend yield of 2.10%. The ex-dividend date is Thursday, February 13th. This is an increase from Eli Lilly And Co's previous quarterly dividend of $0.65. View Eli Lilly And Co's Dividend History.

Eli Lilly And Co (NYSE:LLY) released its earnings results on Thursday, January, 30th. The company reported $1.73 earnings per share for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $1.52 by $0.21. The firm earned $6.11 billion during the quarter, compared to analysts' expectations of $5.92 billion. The business's revenue for the quarter was up 8.4% on a year-over-year basis. During the same quarter in the previous year, the company posted $1.33 earnings per share. View Eli Lilly And Co's Earnings History.

Eli Lilly And Co is scheduled to release their next quarterly earnings announcement on Tuesday, May 5th 2020. View Earnings Estimates for Eli Lilly And Co.

Eli Lilly And Co updated its FY20 earnings guidance on Thursday, January, 30th. The company provided EPS guidance of $6.70-6.80 for the period, compared to the Thomson Reuters consensus earnings per share estimate of $6.76. The company issued revenue guidance of $23.7-24.2 billion, compared to the consensus revenue estimate of $23.78 billion.

14 analysts have issued twelve-month target prices for Eli Lilly And Co's stock. Their forecasts range from $117.49 to $165.00. On average, they anticipate Eli Lilly And Co's share price to reach $137.95 in the next twelve months. This suggests that the stock has a possible downside of 2.2%. View Analyst Price Targets for Eli Lilly And Co.

14 Wall Street analysts have issued "buy," "hold," and "sell" ratings for Eli Lilly And Co in the last year. There are currently 4 hold ratings and 10 buy ratings for the stock, resulting in a consensus recommendation of "Buy." View Analyst Ratings for Eli Lilly And Co.

News articles about LLY stock have been trending somewhat positive recently, according to InfoTrie Sentiment. The research firm identifies negative and positive media coverage by monitoring more than six thousand news and blog sources in real time. The firm ranks coverage of companies on a scale of -5 to 5, with scores closest to five being the most favorable. Eli Lilly And Co earned a media sentiment score of 2.0 on InfoTrie's scale. They also assigned press coverage about the company a news buzz of 0.0 out of 10, indicating that recent media coverage is extremely unlikely to have an impact on the stock's share price in the near term. View News Stories for Eli Lilly And Co.

Eli Lilly And Co saw a increase in short interest during the month of January. As of January 31st, there was short interest totalling 12,980,000 shares, an increase of 14.8% from the January 15th total of 11,310,000 shares. Based on an average daily trading volume, of 3,450,000 shares, the days-to-cover ratio is presently 3.8 days. Approximately 1.5% of the shares of the stock are sold short. View Eli Lilly And Co's Current Options Chain.

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Based on aggregate information from My MarketBeat watchlists, some companies that other Eli Lilly And Co investors own include Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Pfizer (PFE), Merck & Co., Inc. (MRK), AT&T (T), Intel (INTC), Verizon Communications (VZ), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMY), Bank of America (BAC) and Cisco Systems (CSCO).

Eli Lilly And Co's stock is owned by a number of of retail and institutional investors. Top institutional investors include Lilly Endowment Inc. (11.93%), State Street Corp (3.87%), FMR LLC (1.48%), Bank of New York Mellon Corp (0.85%), Franklin Resources Inc. (0.79%) and Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA (0.63%). Company insiders that own Eli Lilly And Co stock include Aarti S Shah, Alfonso G Zulueta, Anne E White, Christi Shaw, Daniel Skovronsky, David A Ricks, Donald A Zakrowski, Eli & Co Lilly, Enrique A Conterno, Jackson P Tai, Jeffrey N Simmons, Joshua L Smiley, Lilly Endowment Inc, Melissa S Barnes, Michael J Harrington, Myles O'neill, Stephen F Fry and Susan Mahony. View Institutional Ownership Trends for Eli Lilly And Co.

LLY stock was sold by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Lilly Endowment Inc., Investec Asset Management LTD, LSV Asset Management, Assenagon Asset Management S.A., Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA, AQR Capital Management LLC, Great West Life Assurance Co. Can and DekaBank Deutsche Girozentrale. Company insiders that have sold Eli Lilly And Co company stock in the last year include Aarti S Shah, Alfonso G Zulueta, Christi Shaw, Donald A Zakrowski, Lilly Endowment Inc, Melissa S Barnes, Michael J Harrington, Myles O'neill and Stephen F Fry. View Insider Buying and Selling for Eli Lilly And Co.

LLY stock was acquired by a variety of institutional investors in the last quarter, including Jennison Associates LLC, FMR LLC, Amundi Pioneer Asset Management Inc., Franklin Resources Inc., CI Investments Inc., PGGM Investments, Robeco Institutional Asset Management B.V. and Prudential Financial Inc.. Company insiders that have bought Eli Lilly And Co stock in the last two years include Anne E White, Daniel Skovronsky, David A Ricks, Jackson P Tai and Joshua L Smiley. View Insider Buying and Selling for Eli Lilly And Co.

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One share of LLY stock can currently be purchased for approximately $141.12.