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Consensus rating

The consensus across 31 analysts covering Eli Lilly and Company is Buy.

Strong Buy
6 (19%)
Buy
20 (65%)
Hold
3 (10%)
Sell
1 (3%)
Strong Sell
1 (3%)

Price targets

Average target
$1,397.02
Highest
$1,650.00
Lowest
$930.00
vs. current price
-1.4%

The spread between the lowest and highest target is the number worth looking at. A range of $930.00 to $1,650.00 on the same company, at the same time, on the same public information, is a fair measure of how much of a price target is judgement rather than arithmetic.

Recent rating changes

DateFirmActionRatingPrice target
Oct 31, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$1,625.00(from $1,425.00)
Oct 30, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$1,650.00(from $1,500.00)
Oct 30, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$1,650.00(from $1,600.00)
Oct 30, 2026ScotiabankMaintainedSector Outperform$1,605.00(from $1,300.00)
Oct 30, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$1,596.00(from $1,430.00)
Oct 30, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$1,500.00(from $1,330.00)
Oct 30, 2026Truist SecuritiesReiteratedBuy$1,612.00(from $1,376.00)
Oct 30, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$1,600.00(from $1,500.00)
Oct 30, 2026Argus ResearchMaintainedBuy$1,550.00(from $1,300.00)
Oct 21, 2026Leerink PartnersMaintainedOutperform$1,316.00(from $1,309.00)
Oct 12, 2026RBC CapitalReiteratedOutperform$1,500.00
Oct 8, 2026Cantor FitzgeraldMaintainedOverweight$1,440.00(from $1,410.00)
Oct 7, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$1,430.00(from $1,419.00)
Sep 28, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$1,500.00(from $1,400.00)
Sep 22, 2026TD CowenReiteratedBuy$1,250.00
Sep 18, 2026GuggenheimMaintainedBuy$1,284.00(from $1,273.00)
Sep 10, 2026HSBCMaintainedReduce$940.00(from $850.00)
Aug 7, 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$1,376.00(from $1,370.00)
Aug 6, 2026Wells FargoMaintainedOverweight$1,330.00(from $1,280.00)
Aug 6, 2026Cantor FitzgeraldMaintainedOverweight$1,410.00(from $1,350.00)

Source: Yahoo Finance - retrieved just now

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Common questions

What is a price target?

A price target is the share price an analyst expects a stock to reach, usually within twelve months. It follows from that analyst’s own earnings forecasts and their view of what those earnings are worth. Both are judgements. Two analysts can therefore publish very different targets on the same company, and neither has to be unreasonable.

Do analyst ratings predict returns?

Not reliably. Ratings cluster heavily towards buy across the whole market. They are revised after a large price move at least as often as before one. A consensus is not a set of independent opinions either, because analysts read each other. Treat ratings as a record of what the sell side expects today. That is context for a price, not a forecast of one.

What do upgrade, downgrade and maintained mean?

An upgrade means a firm moved the stock to a more positive rating. A downgrade moves it to a more negative one. Maintained, or reiterated, means the rating is unchanged even though the firm published a note, often with a revised price target. Initiated means the firm has just started covering the company.

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