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Eli Lilly jumps 6.6% the session after its results filing

Eli Lilly closed up 6.6% on 29 October 2026, its largest one-day gain since 26 June 2026. The closes, the trading volume and what the company filed with the SEC around the move.

Checked before publishing: software matched every figure in this piece to the data it came from (Yahoo Finance daily closes for LLY (delayed); SEC EDGAR: Eli Lilly and Company 10-Q, filed 29 October 2026; SEC EDGAR: Eli Lilly and Company 8-K, filed 29 October 2026; SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts; Yahoo Finance daily closes for the 50 companies (delayed)). How we check

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Eli Lilly and Company (LLY) shares rose 6.6% on 29 October 2026, the session after it filed its results with the SEC. Below are the closes, how unusual the move was, and what the company filed.

The move

Eli Lilly closed at $NaN on 29 October 2026, up 6.6% from $NaN on 28 October, its largest one-day gain since 26 June 2026. About 4.4 million shares traded on 29 October, 1.9 times the average of the 20 sessions before. In the 20 sessions to 28 October its daily changes had a standard deviation of 1.8% (20-day realized volatility of 29.2% a year), so the move on 29 October was about 3.6 times a normal day.

What the company filed

Filed with the SEC from 25 October to 29 October, as listed on EDGAR:

  • 29 October: 10-Q, the quarterly report.
  • 29 October: 8-K (Item 2.02, results of operations; Item 9.01, financial statements and exhibits).

The latest quarter

In the quarter to 30 September 2026, from the 10-Q filed on 29 October: revenue was $24.4B, up 38.6% on a year earlier; diluted earnings per share were $7.22 against $6.21. Each figure is against the same quarter a year earlier.

The base rate

In the daily closes we hold for the 50 largest US companies, there were 184 earlier one-day gains of 5% or more that were also at least 3 times a normal day, at 45 companies, the latest on 21 September 2026. Five sessions later the median stock was up 0.1% from its close on the day of the move; 20 sessions later it was up 3.8%, and 113 of the 184 closed above that day’s close. Eli Lilly itself did this 3 times before in that period; 20 sessions after, it was down 0.9% (26 June 2026), up 18.2% (30 April 2026) and down 11.2% (4 February 2026). This counts what happened before, across different companies and markets; it is not a forecast.

What this note does not say

The filings do not give a reason for the share price move, and neither do we: this note puts the closes and the filings side by side. Every quarter Eli Lilly has filed, each linked to its filing, is on the LLY page at /s/lly.

Sources

  1. Yahoo Finance daily closes for LLY (delayed)
  2. SEC EDGAR: Eli Lilly and Company 10-Q, filed 29 October 2026
  3. SEC EDGAR: Eli Lilly and Company 8-K, filed 29 October 2026
  4. SEC EDGAR XBRL company facts
  5. Yahoo Finance daily closes for the 50 companies (delayed)
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Sources: Yahoo Finance daily closes and volumes (delayed) and the company’s own SEC filings. The volatility, volume and free cash flow comparisons are our calculations. General market information, not investment advice.

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