{"id":604941,"date":"2026-04-13T21:57:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:57:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T21:57:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T21:57:14","slug":"after-obtaining-approval-for-its-weight-loss-pill-is-it-off-to-the-races-for-eli-lilly-stock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/604941\/","title":{"rendered":"After Obtaining Approval for Its Weight Loss Pill, Is It Off to the Races for Eli Lilly Stock?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">On April 1, Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and its shareholders received the news they were eagerly awaiting: the approval of the company&#8217;s GLP-1 pill, Foundayo. While the company isn&#8217;t the first out of the gate with a GLP-1 pill, it&#8217;s still a massive growth opportunity for the business nonetheless. The company&#8217;s injectable treatment, Zepbound, has already been generating billions in revenue, and Foundayo may help it reach even more patients.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Could this be the catalyst the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/healthcare\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=383c4bbb-4b81-4154-8fa0-72c2526763ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:healthcare stock;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;healthcare stock&quot;}\" class=\"link \">healthcare stock<\/a>, which is down 13% this year, needs to get going?<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Will AI create the world&#8217;s first trillionaire?\u00a0Our team just released a report on the one little-known company, called an &#8220;Indispensable Monopoly&#8221; providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=9c2c7c7f-2109-4644-8662-35cb34004ef8&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-ai-boom-nvidias%3Faid%3D10891%26source%3Disaediica0000069%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-ai-boom%26ftm_veh%3Dtop_incontent_pitch_feed_yahoo%26ftm_pit%3D18914&amp;utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=383c4bbb-4b81-4154-8fa0-72c2526763ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Continue \u00bb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Continue \u00bb&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0844c68a96f9b3c08cc6acb816de11bc.jpeg\" alt=\"Doctor going over results with a patient.\" loading=\"eager\" height=\"640\" width=\"960\" class=\"yf-lglytj  loaded\"\/> Image source: Getty Images.         <\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Pills are easier and more convenient options for patients than injectables. Plus, many people simply don&#8217;t want to use needles and thus, have been waiting for GLP-1 pills to take instead. Now, with Foundayo approved, this could open up the opportunity for Eli Lilly to sell to a wider range of customers, improving upon its already strong growth rate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Last year, the company&#8217;s revenue rose by 45% to $65.2 billion. The bulk of that growth was from Zepbound, which generated $13.5 billion and rose by 175% from a year ago. Mounjaro, which is a GLP-1 drug approved for diabetes, doubled its revenue to just under $23 billion. GLP-1 drugs have been growth beasts for Eli Lilly, and the hope is that a pill will lead to even better numbers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">Shares of Eli Lilly got a boost on news of Foundayo&#8217;s approval, but they haven&#8217;t exactly been soaring. One problem could be a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/how-to-invest\/stocks\/how-to-value-stock\/?utm_source=yahoo-host-full&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=383c4bbb-4b81-4154-8fa0-72c2526763ac\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:high valuation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;high valuation&quot;}\" class=\"link \">high valuation<\/a>, as the stock trades at more than 40 times trailing earnings, a steep multiple as the S&amp;P 500 average is just 24. While the premium may be justifiable given the company&#8217;s impressive growth, Eli Lilly simply hasn&#8217;t been the hot buy it&#8217;s been of late amid investor concerns about high stock prices. But over the past five years, it&#8217;s still up more than 415% &#8212; the stock may simply be taking a breather.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\">With a bright future ahead, I believe this can be an excellent stock to own. The company has promising growth opportunities in the GLP-1 space, plus it also has a rich and diverse pipeline that includes dozens of late-stage trials. 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The Motley Fool has a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/legal\/fool-disclosure-policy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:disclosure policy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;disclosure policy&quot;}\" class=\"link \">disclosure policy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"yf-1fy9kyt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/2026\/04\/13\/after-obtaining-approval-for-its-weight-loss-pill\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:After Obtaining Approval for Its Weight Loss Pill, Is It Off to the Races for Eli Lilly Stock?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;After Obtaining Approval for Its Weight Loss Pill, Is It Off to the Races for Eli Lilly Stock?&quot;}\" class=\"link \">After Obtaining Approval for Its Weight Loss Pill, Is It Off to the Races for Eli Lilly Stock?<\/a> was originally published by The Motley Fool<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On April 1, Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) and its shareholders received the news they were eagerly awaiting: the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":604942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,14252,85562,137,490],"class_list":{"0":"post-604941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-eli-lilly","11":"tag-growth-opportunity","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-medication"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=604941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/604941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/604942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=604941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=604941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=604941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}