Eli Lilly ($LLY)

Overview

Indianapolis-headquartered pharmaceutical giant; one of the most valuable US biotechs. Frontier programs span GLP-1 metabolic drugs (Mounjaro/Zepbound), Alzheimer's therapeutics (donanemab), and AI-augmented drug discovery via Lilly Research Labs.

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