Eli Lilly Valuation

Is LLY undervalued compared to its fair value, analyst forecasts and its price relative to the market?

Valuation Score

3/6

Valuation Score 3/6

  • Below Fair Value

  • Significantly Below Fair Value

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Peers

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Industry

  • Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio

  • Analyst Forecast

Share Price vs Fair Value

What is the Fair Price of LLY when looking at its future cash flows? For this estimate we use a Discounted Cash Flow model.

Below Fair Value: LLY (€724.3) is trading below our estimate of fair value (€1201.68)

Significantly Below Fair Value: LLY is trading below fair value by more than 20%.


Key Valuation Metric

Which metric is best to use when looking at relative valuation for LLY?

Key metric: As LLY is profitable we use its Price-To-Earnings Ratio for relative valuation analysis.

The above table shows the Price to Earnings ratio for LLY. This is calculated by dividing LLY's market cap by their current earnings.
What is LLY's PE Ratio?
PE Ratio84.8x
EarningsUS$8.37b
Market CapUS$709.71b

Price to Earnings Ratio vs Peers

How does LLY's PE Ratio compare to its peers?

The above table shows the PE ratio for LLY vs its peers. Here we also display the market cap and forecasted growth for additional consideration.
CompanyForward PEEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
Peer Average23.4x
NOVO B Novo Nordisk
34.9x14.4%DKK 3.3t
JNJ Johnson & Johnson
25.3x10.6%US$372.0b
MRK Merck
21.5x15.6%US$257.1b
SFA Sopharma AD
12xn/aлв928.1m
LLY Eli Lilly
84.8x29.2%€709.7b

Price-To-Earnings vs Peers: LLY is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (84.8x) compared to the peer average (23.4x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Industry

How does LLY's PE Ratio compare vs other companies in the European Pharmaceuticals Industry?

1 CompanyPrice / EarningsEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
LLY 84.8xIndustry Avg. 19.7xNo. of Companies12PE01632486480+
1 CompanyEstimated GrowthMarket Cap
No more companies

Price-To-Earnings vs Industry: LLY is expensive based on its Price-To-Earnings Ratio (84.8x) compared to the European Pharmaceuticals industry average (19.7x).


Price to Earnings Ratio vs Fair Ratio

What is LLY's PE Ratio compared to its Fair PE Ratio? This is the expected PE Ratio taking into account the company's forecast earnings growth, profit margins and other risk factors.

LLY PE Ratio vs Fair Ratio.
Fair Ratio
Current PE Ratio84.8x
Fair PE Ration/a

Price-To-Earnings vs Fair Ratio: Insufficient data to calculate LLY's Price-To-Earnings Fair Ratio for valuation analysis.


Analyst Price Targets

What is the analyst 12-month forecast and do we have any statistical confidence in the consensus price target?

The above table shows the analyst LLY forecast and predictions for the stock price in 12 month’s time.
DateShare PriceAverage 1Y Price TargetDispersionHighLow1Y Actual priceAnalysts
Current€724.30
€947.04
+30.8%
14.6%€1,193.13€553.61n/a28
Nov ’25€788.40
€928.20
+17.7%
13.9%€1,153.50€535.22n/a27
Oct ’25n/a
€898.57
0%
13.9%€1,038.11€523.57n/a25
Sep ’25n/a
€892.88
0%
13.9%€1,040.52€524.78n/a25
Aug ’25€739.20
€851.63
+15.2%
16.3%€1,035.12€500.42n/a26
Jul ’25n/a
€811.93
0%
14.0%€961.97€504.58n/a25
Jun ’25n/a
€787.22
0%
12.7%€944.64€498.64n/a26
May ’25n/a
€790.63
0%
13.3%€956.81€505.06n/a26
Apr ’25n/a
€737.95
0%
14.1%€925.40€462.70n/a26
Mar ’25n/a
€708.35
0%
15.0%€922.80€461.40n/a27
Feb ’25n/a
€586.79
0%
13.9%€702.88€396.12n/a26
Jan ’25n/a
€566.94
0%
13.6%€660.77€390.83n/a27
Dec ’24n/a
€568.86
0%
14.2%€663.37€395.08n/a27
Nov ’24n/a
€561.08
0%
16.2%€670.38€321.03€788.4026
Oct ’24n/a
€537.97
0%
14.0%€605.38€321.61n/a26
Sep ’24n/a
€491.63
0%
16.8%€580.21€274.98n/a27
Aug ’24n/a
€430.88
0%
14.2%€512.51€272.13€739.2027
Jul ’24n/a
€411.76
0%
14.8%€501.71€273.66n/a23
Jun ’24n/a
€407.09
0%
14.7%€472.63€279.66n/a23
May ’24n/a
€359.69
0%
15.0%€442.08€246.11n/a23
Apr ’24n/a
€346.47
0%
13.3%€409.32€248.91n/a23
Mar ’24n/a
€357.38
0%
12.8%€416.43€253.23n/a22
Feb ’24€313.80
€347.55
+10.8%
15.6%€404.76€185.82n/a22
Jan ’24€342.15
€356.56
+4.2%
15.6%€415.10€190.57n/a22
Dec ’23€354.55
€360.28
+1.6%
15.5%€423.14€196.04n/a22
Nov ’23n/a
€348.41
0%
16.3%€437.36€204.50n/a21

Analyst Forecast: Target price is more than 20% higher than the current share price and analysts are within a statistically confident range of agreement.


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