LLY · Forward model
Revenue by vertical, 20 quarters out
Model as of
Each segment is projected from its own operating driver, rolled up into consolidated cash flow, and discounted back to a fair value per share. The assumptions below are editable — change them and every number on this page moves with them.
Eli Lilly operates as a SINGLE reportable segment. The five verticals here are the ASC 606 disaggregation of revenue by therapeutic area that Lilly publishes in the 10-Q and 10-K revenue note - Cardiometabolic Health, Oncology, Immunology, Neuroscience and Other - and nothing finer is modelled, because nothing finer is disclosed. Revenue splits; profitability does not. Eight of the ten quarters are read directly from three-month columns in five 10-Qs; the two fourth quarters are derived as full year minus nine months and are marked estimated on every line. The five verticals sum to the reported $22,974M of 2026 Q2 revenue exactly, with no plug, and reconcile within $1.1M of rounding in all ten quarters. History stops at 2024 Q1 on purpose: the 2024-vintage filings label the largest line 'Diabetes and obesity' and their area lines do not sum to consolidated revenue, so splicing 2023 on would import a definitional break into exactly the place the seasonal factors are read from. No per-therapeutic-area margin exists in any filing, so all five verticals carry the same consolidated 52.2% EBITDA margin: the guided FY2026 non-GAAP performance-margin midpoint of 49.75%, which is the company's own gross margin less R&D less MS&A, plus 2.4 points of depreciation and amortisation from the H1 cash-flow statement. The 8.0% corporate overhead is the acquired in-process R&D charge treated as an ongoing cost of the pipeline rather than a one-off; it is an assumption, calibrated so that the first projected quarter's 26.2% FCF margin sits just above the 25.2% Lilly actually printed in H1 2026, and it is far below the 12.1% of revenue that 2026 Q2's own $2,776M charge represented. Capex intensity starts at the disclosed H1 2026 rate of 12.3% and glides toward 8.0%; the $4.5 billion Indiana manufacturing commitment is NOT added as a separate capital programme because it is already inside that capex rate and would otherwise be counted twice. Tax is the guided 18-19% non-GAAP rate at 18.5%, applied unlevered - interest is not deducted from cash flow because the $45.96 billion of net debt is deducted from enterprise value instead. The base case does NOT match the FY2026 revenue guide and does not pretend to: it prints $89.8 billion against the guided $85.0-$87.0 billion, and the reason is arithmetic rather than optimism - holding every one of the five lines at zero deseasonalised growth still produces $87.9 billion, because the guided range implies an H2 below the Q2 run rate that the deseasonalised series has never printed. The bear case is where guidance is taken literally, and it lands at $85.9 billion.
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Latest: $34.09B (2031Q2E)
| Period | Value |
|---|---|
| 2024Q1 | $8.77B |
| 2024Q2 | $11.30B |
| 2024Q3 | $11.44B |
| 2024Q4 | $13.53B |
| 2025Q1 | $12.73B |
| 2025Q2 | $15.56B |
| 2025Q3 | $17.60B |
| 2025Q4 | $19.29B |
| 2026Q1 | $19.80B |
| 2026Q2 | $22.97B |
| 2026Q3E | $22.78B |
| 2026Q4E | $24.23B |
| 2027Q1E | $22.13B |
| 2027Q2E | $25.22B |
| 2027Q3E | $25.16B |
| 2027Q4E | $26.64B |
| 2028Q1E | $24.26B |
| 2028Q2E | $27.54B |
| 2028Q3E | $27.38B |
| 2028Q4E | $28.91B |
| 2029Q1E | $26.27B |
| 2029Q2E | $29.76B |
| 2029Q3E | $29.52B |
| 2029Q4E | $31.10B |
| 2030Q1E | $28.22B |
| 2030Q2E | $31.92B |
| 2030Q3E | $31.62B |
| 2030Q4E | $33.28B |
| 2031Q1E | $30.17B |
| 2031Q2E | $34.09B |
Where each case comes from
Bear case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bear column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
The first half was flattered
- Aug 5, 2026 there were a few one-offs that we called out ... prior period adjustments that we had on our estimates for rebates and discounts in the U.S., including this quarter. Those, of course, we don't expect that will continue.
- Aug 5, 2026 Revenue guidance raised to $85 to $87 billion from $82 to $85 billion.
Bull case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Bull column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
The oral incretin ramp
- Aug 5, 2026 We're seeing week-to-week growth in overall prescriptions and uptake for Foundayo ... almost doubling the volume that we had just a month ago
- Aug 5, 2026 The major rollout for us OUS will happen in the beginning of 2027 with major launches.
- Aug 5, 2026 clinical data package is now complete to support global registrations for obesity, obstructive sleep apnea, and knee osteoarthritis pain, with plans to submit a Biologics License Application to the U.S. FDA in the first quarter of 2027
Ricks case — primary sources
The primary sources this case is built from — filings, calls and posts. Where they are claims by an interested party rather than disclosures, every number in the Ricks column is what happens if they are taken at face value.
From cash flow to fair value
| Present value of free cash flow, 20 quarters | $124.50B |
| Terminal-year revenue | $129.16B |
| Terminal-year EBITDA | $57.09B |
| Exit multiple, on revenue | 6.0x |
| Terminal value | $774.97B |
| Discounted at 8.0% a year, terminal value becomes | $527.43B |
| Share of enterprise value from the terminal | 81% |
| Enterprise value | $651.93B |
| Net cash | -$45.96B |
| Equity value | $605.97B |
| Shares | 0.89B |
| Fair value per share | $678.07 |
| Against the deployed price of $1,149.36, as of | -41% |
8% discount rate: a large-cap pharma WACC, near-zero equity beta premium over the market offset by patent-cliff terminal risk. 6.0x exit EV/revenue is an assumption, not a comp-derived figure - comparable multiples were not verified in the research pass and must not be quoted as evidence. It is a de-rated large-cap pharma terminal multiple on the view that today's 13.5x EV to guided FY2026 revenue is a growth multiple unlikely to survive to 2031. On the model's terminal four quarters - $129.2bn of revenue and $57.1bn of EBITDA after the corporate overhead - 6.0x revenue is 13.6x EBITDA. The scenarios move it from 4.5x to 8.5x, and the exit multiple is the single largest lever in this model - larger than any plausible margin or growth change.
Read the other way round: at $1,149.36 the market is paying 10.8x terminal-year revenue, holding every other assumption on this page fixed. That is the number to argue about.
The projected path
| Quarter | Cardiometabolic Health | Oncology | Immunology | Neuroscience | Other | Revenue | YoY | EBITDA | Capex | FCF | R40 | PV of FCF |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 Q3E | $17.96B | $2.61B | $1.55B | $446M | $207M | $22.78B | +29% | $10.07B | $2.75B | $5.96B | +56 | $5.85B |
| 2026 Q4E | $18.97B | $2.88B | $1.70B | $462M | $209M | $24.23B | +26% | $10.71B | $2.88B | $6.38B | +52 | $6.14B |
| 2027 Q1E | $17.80B | $2.32B | $1.33B | $477M | $211M | $22.13B | +12% | $9.78B | $2.59B | $5.86B | +38 | $5.54B |
| 2027 Q2E | $20.21B | $2.73B | $1.58B | $490M | $213M | $25.22B | +10% | $11.15B | $2.90B | $6.72B | +36 | $6.22B |
| 2027 Q3E | $19.95B | $2.76B | $1.72B | $503M | $214M | $25.16B | +10% | $11.12B | $2.85B | $6.74B | +37 | $6.12B |
| 2027 Q4E | $20.98B | $3.05B | $1.88B | $514M | $216M | $26.64B | +10% | $11.77B | $2.97B | $7.17B | +37 | $6.39B |
| 2028 Q1E | $19.60B | $2.45B | $1.46B | $525M | $218M | $24.26B | +10% | $10.72B | $2.67B | $6.56B | +37 | $5.74B |
| 2028 Q2E | $22.17B | $2.88B | $1.74B | $536M | $219M | $27.54B | +9% | $12.17B | $2.99B | $7.49B | +36 | $6.42B |
| 2028 Q3E | $21.82B | $2.91B | $1.88B | $545M | $221M | $27.38B | +9% | $12.10B | $2.93B | $7.47B | +36 | $6.29B |
| 2028 Q4E | $22.88B | $3.21B | $2.05B | $555M | $223M | $28.91B | +9% | $12.78B | $3.06B | $7.92B | +36 | $6.54B |
| 2029 Q1E | $21.32B | $2.57B | $1.59B | $564M | $224M | $26.27B | +8% | $11.61B | $2.74B | $7.23B | +36 | $5.85B |
| 2029 Q2E | $24.05B | $3.02B | $1.88B | $572M | $226M | $29.76B | +8% | $13.15B | $3.07B | $8.22B | +36 | $6.52B |
| 2029 Q3E | $23.62B | $3.05B | $2.04B | $580M | $227M | $29.52B | +8% | $13.05B | $3.01B | $8.18B | +36 | $6.37B |
| 2029 Q4E | $24.71B | $3.36B | $2.22B | $588M | $228M | $31.10B | +8% | $13.75B | $3.14B | $8.65B | +35 | $6.60B |
| 2030 Q1E | $22.99B | $2.69B | $1.71B | $596M | $230M | $28.22B | +7% | $12.47B | $2.82B | $7.87B | +35 | $5.90B |
| 2030 Q2E | $25.90B | $3.16B | $2.03B | $603M | $231M | $31.92B | +7% | $14.11B | $3.16B | $8.93B | +35 | $6.56B |
| 2030 Q3E | $25.39B | $3.19B | $2.19B | $611M | $233M | $31.62B | +7% | $13.98B | $3.10B | $8.87B | +35 | $6.39B |
| 2030 Q4E | $26.54B | $3.51B | $2.38B | $618M | $234M | $33.28B | +7% | $14.71B | $3.23B | $9.36B | +35 | $6.62B |
| 2031 Q1E | $24.65B | $2.82B | $1.84B | $625M | $235M | $30.17B | +7% | $13.33B | $2.90B | $8.50B | +35 | $5.90B |
| 2031 Q2E | $27.75B | $3.30B | $2.17B | $632M | $237M | $34.09B | +7% | $15.07B | $3.25B | $9.63B | +35 | $6.55B |
Every row is projected. A year-over-year change is shown only where the quarter it compares against exists — an em dash means there is no comparable quarter, not a flat year.
Model revisions
Assumptions are marked to reality as each quarter prints. Every change is appended here, with the fair value the model produced at the time, so the model's own history stays visible.
| Date | Fair value then | Note |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-08-27 | $678.07 | Initial publication from the verified research brief on the 2026 Q2 basis quarter reported 5 August 2026. Five therapeutic-area verticals on the restated ASC 606 disaggregation, ten quarters of history, seasonality on cardiometabolic health, oncology and immunology only. |