Eli Lilly and Company discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets human pharmaceutical products in the United States, Europe, China, Japan, and internationally. The company offers cardiometabolic health products, including Basaglar, Humalog, Humalog Mix 75/25, Humalog U-100, Humalog U-200, Humalog Mix 50/50, insulin lispro, insulin lispro protamine, insulin lispro mix 75/25, Humulin, Humulin 70/30, Humulin N, Humulin R, Humulin U-500 for diabetes; …
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Strong Interest Coverage & Conservative LeverageDebt serviceability is strong (score 0.88), with robust interest coverage.
Strong Liquidity BufferLiquidity position is strong (score 0.74), providing operational cushion.
Key risks
ROIC Below WACC or PeersROIC at 15.8th percentile suggests inefficient capital deployment.
Revenue Volatility Signals Weak StickinessRevenue volatility is high (stability score 0.22), suggesting weak customer stickiness.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Eli Lilly and Company ranks #13 of 20
scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - General by moat score — the top 65%.
The widest moat in the group is Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO)
at 74/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near LLY in Drug Manufacturers - General
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 53
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 33
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 43
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 75
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 38
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) scores 45 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #13 of 20 scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - General, the top 65%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 19 companies in Drug Manufacturers - General. Its strongest defense is Resilience (75/100) and its weakest is Customer Stickiness (33/100).
How does Eli Lilly and Company compare with other Drug Manufacturers - General companies?
Eli Lilly and Company ranks #13 of 20 scored companies in Drug Manufacturers - General by moat score. The widest moat in Drug Manufacturers - General is Novo Nordisk A/S (NVO) at 74/100. The companies ranked closest are Grifols, S.A. (GRFS) at 50 just above it and AbbVie Inc. (ABBV) at 43 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 19 companies in Drug Manufacturers - General. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Eli Lilly and Company scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Eli Lilly and Company?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and LLY scores: Pricing Power (38), Cost Advantage (53), Customer Stickiness (33), Capital Efficiency (43), Resilience (75), Scale & Market Position (38). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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