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Eli Lilly and Company

Consensus rating

The consensus across 30 analysts covering Eli Lilly and Company is Buy.

Strong Buy
6 (20%)
Buy
19 (63%)
Hold
3 (10%)
Sell
1 (3%)
Strong Sell
1 (3%)

Price targets

Average target
$1,324.87
Highest
$1,600.00
Lowest
$930.00
vs. current price
+16.6%

The spread between the lowest and highest target is the number worth looking at. A range of $930.00 to $1,600.00 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
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)
Jul 15, 2026CitigroupMaintainedBuy$1,600.00(from $1,500.00)
Jul 14, 2026BernsteinMaintainedOutperform$1,385.00(from $1,300.00)
Jul 13, 2026UBSMaintainedBuy$1,425.00(from $1,250.00)
Jul 13, 2026GuggenheimMaintainedBuy$1,273.00(from $1,235.00)
Jul 10, 2026B of A SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$1,334.00(from $1,251.00)
Jul 8, 2026Truist SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$1,370.00(from $1,281.00)
Jul 8, 2026Morgan StanleyMaintainedOverweight$1,347.00(from $1,344.00)
Jul 8, 2026RBC CapitalMaintainedOutperform$1,500.00(from $1,250.00)
Jul 7, 2026JP MorganMaintainedOverweight$1,400.00(from $1,300.00)
Jul 6, 2026Cantor FitzgeraldMaintainedOverweight$1,350.00(from $1,230.00)
Jun 25, 2026Leerink PartnersMaintainedOutperform$1,232.00(from $1,119.00)
Jun 9, 2026JefferiesMaintainedBuy$1,350.00(from $1,330.00)
May 26, 2026B of A SecuritiesMaintainedBuy$1,251.00(from $1,133.00)
May 5, 2026BarclaysMaintainedOverweight$1,400.00(from $1,350.00)
May 5, 2026GuggenheimReiteratedBuy$1,183.00
May 4, 2026Wolfe ResearchReiteratedOutperform$1,325.00

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 forecasts for the company and their view of what those earnings are worth, so two analysts can publish very different targets on the same company without either being unreasonable.

Do analyst ratings predict returns?

Not reliably. Ratings cluster heavily towards buy across the whole market, they are revised after large price moves at least as often as before them, and a consensus is not an independent set of opinions - analysts read each other. They are most useful as a record of what the sell side currently expects, which is context for a price rather than a forecast of one.

What do upgrade, downgrade and maintained mean?

An upgrade means a firm moved a stock to a more positive rating, a downgrade to a more negative one, and 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 started covering the company.

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