Lilly becomes first healthcare firm to join trillion-dollar club, Wall Street reacts

Reuters

Fri, November 21, 2025 astatine 10:36 AM CST 1 min read

(Reuters) -Eli Lilly deed $1 trillion successful marketplace worth ​on Friday, making it the archetypal ‌drugmaker to participate the exclusive nine dominated by tech ‌giants and underscoring its emergence arsenic a weight-loss powerhouse.

Here are immoderate reactions to Lilly joining the trillion dollar club: ⁠

EVAN SEIGERMAN, ‌ANALYST AT BMO CAPITAL MARKETS

"The existent valuation points to capitalist assurance ‍in the longer-term durability of the company's metabolic wellness franchise. It besides suggests that ​investors similar Lilly implicit Novo successful ‌the obesity arms race. Taking a measurement back, we're besides seeing wealth rotate into the assemblage arsenic investors whitethorn beryllium disquieted astir an AI bubble."

HANK SMITH,⁠ DIRECTOR &​ HEAD OF INVESTMENT STRATEGY ​AT LILLY SHAREHOLDER HAVERFORD TRUST

"Investors person historically liked unafraid net maturation ‍and (⁠Eli Lilly) is the lone ample headdress pharma that has that benignant of ⁠earnings profile."

(Reporting by Siddhi Mahatole ‌and Shashwat Chauhan successful Bengaluru; ‌Editing by Leroy Leo)