The merger would be one of the biggest pharma deals ever. AstraZeneca’s market capitalization stood at $264 billion as of Friday’s close, while Bristol Myers Squibb had a total valuation of $133 billion.
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Novo Nordisk and Eli Lilly compete in the same blockbuster drug class, yet their 2026 earnings tell dramatically different stories about which company holds the upper hand heading into a pivotal summer of reports and pricing resets.
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Eli Lilly (LLY) stock has turned into one of the best comeback trades of 2026. Shares closed at $1,196.03 on July 24, up nearly 11% year to date after a rough start dragged the stock below $900 in the spring. Lilly shares have climbed about 39% since the company's first-quarter report, according to ...

<body><p>STORY: U.S. stocks ended mixed on Friday, with the Dow gaining just under half a percent, the S&P 500 virtually flat and the tech-heavy Nasdaq sliding nearly two-thirds of a percent.</p><p>The S&P 500 technology index underperformed the broader market as chip stocks fell, with Intel dropping nearly 8% despite forecasting quarterly profit and revenue above Wall Street estimates.</p><p>Enthusiasm for the AI trade weakened after Alphabet's announcement earlier this week of a plan to hike capital spending even as it burns cash.</p><p>Richard Reyle, chief investment officer at Questar Capital Partners, said that as a result investors are rotating into what he called "safer parts of the market."</p><p>"Pharmaceuticals have been flying, and that's been, I think, where we see the rotation of the market right now. [FLASH] You look at the iShares, pharmaceutical fund, it's big components that are J&J and Eli Lilly, they're at all-time highs. And they're still relatively not super expensive stocks. So I think that's a place that can be bought and held. And of course, energy. Exxon's going to announce earnings next week. I bet they're going to be a blockbuster and they're going to continue to be because they make money at $60 a barrel. At $100 a barrel, forget about it. They do very well."</p><p>The S&P 500 real estate sector also outperformed during the session. Its leading gainer was Digital Realty Trust, which rallied 11% after it raised its full-year forecast for funds from operations.</p><p>Among other gainers, shares of SLB climbed 11% after the oilfield services firm beat expectations for second-quarter profit.</p><p>Investors now turn their attention to quarterly results next week from Magnificent 7 megacaps Microsoft, Amazon, Meta and Apple.</p></body>
Gene-editing biotech debuts at $25, backed by Sanofi and Eli Lilly, with a roughly $440.3 million valuation.
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Eli Lilly stock hit an all-time high of 1,249.50 before pulling back into a buy zone above a pivot of 1,133.95.
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Friday’s preliminary injunction request escalates legal proceedings initiated earlier this week.
Novo Nordisk said it asked a U.S. court to preliminarily halt rival Eli Lilly from advertising weight-loss drugs, days after accusing the Indianapolis drugmaker of using deceptive advertising to mislead consumers in a lawsuit. Friday’s preliminary injunction request, filed in the District of New Jersey, escalates legal proceedings initiated earlier this week. Novo has now asked the court to stop Eli Lilly from advertising its GLP-1 drugs while the lawsuit proceeds.
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Drugmaker Eli Lilly said Thursday that it is on track to seek federal approval for its next-generation obesity drug early next year. Lilly became the first drug company to reach a trillion dollar valuation last fall as sales of its weight loss drugs took off. Among adults with general obesity, the weekly injectable lowered the weight of late-stage trial participants by an average of 28% over 80 weeks at the highest doses tested.
The new findings position Lilly to file an application for the highly anticipated medicine, but also leave some questions about the additive benefits a “triple-G” drug has on heart health.
Eli Lilly is preparing application materials for its next-generation weight-loss drug, retatrutide, following data from two Phase 3 trials showing the treatment delivered substantial results.
Eli Lilly is preparing application materials for its next-generation weight-loss drug, retatrutide, following data from two Phase 3 trials showing the treatment delivered substantial results.
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Eli Lilly will release its second-quarter earnings next month, and analysts anticipate a double-digit bottom-line growth.
Novo Nordisk is also demanding that Eli Lilly pull its ads and pay damages.

<body><p>STORY: :: Novo Nordisk claims misleading ads in Eli Lilly weight-loss drug lawsuit</p><p>:: July 21, 2026</p><p>:: Maggie Fick, European Pharma Industry Correspondent</p><p>"Novo Nordisk sued rival Eli Lilly in a U.S. federal court on Tuesday, accusing the U.S. drugmaker of false advertising and claiming its weight-loss medicines outperform Novo's drugs." //</p><p>"Novo is alleging in its suit that Lilly's advertisements compare weight-loss results of about 50 pounds for its drug Zepbound with about 33 pounds for Wegovy, even though no head-to-head clinical trial has compared the highest approved doses of the medicines."</p><p>"Pharmaceutical companies regularly sue each other over claims related to patent infringement, for example, but false advertising suits, such as the one filed today, are less common."</p><p>"Novo Nordisk was first to market with its weight-loss injection Wegovy several years ago, but it later lost the lead to Eli Lilly, after that company launched a rival injection called Zepbound in the United States. Last year, Novo replaced its CEO and was forced to issue multiple profit warnings as it fell further behind Eli Lilly in this really competitive and booming obesity drug market, which analysts expect to be worth more than $100 billion by 2030. This year, Novo has actually sort of landed a counterpunch with its oral Wegovy pill. It was able to launch that drug ahead of Eli Lilly. Lilly has, in April, launched its own pill, a weight-loss pill. But Novo has managed to keep up strong sales even since the launch of Lilly's pill."</p><p>"Both companies report quarterly results in the next couple of weeks."</p><p>:: Novo Nordisk</p><p>:: Eli Lilly</p><p>The Danish company filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court in New Jersey, alleging Lilly violated federal and state false advertising and unfair competition laws, including the Lanham Act, through nationwide advertising campaigns for obesity drug Zepbound and diabetes treatment Mounjaro.</p><p>Novo alleges Lilly compared the highest approved doses of its medicines with lower doses of Novo's Wegovy and Ozempic while omitting newer, higher-dose versions that Novo says deliver greater weight loss.</p><p>But Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly said it stands firmly behind its ads, which are based on the results of its SURMOUNT-5 trial. That trial — completed in 2024 — compared patients on 10 mg or 15 mg of Lilly's Zepbound to patients on 1.7 mg or 2.4 mg doses of Wegovy. The FDA approved a 7.2 mg dose of Wegovy in March of this year.</p></body>
Eli Lilly has followed the market’s trajectory closely, rising in tandem with the S&P 500 over the past six months. The stock has climbed by 6.5% to $1,149 per share while the index has gained 8.4%.
All three major US stock indexes were up in late-morning trading Tuesday, as investors focused on so
Novo Nordisk (NYSE:NVO) has filed a federal lawsuit against Eli Lilly, alleging that its rival’s advertising campaigns for blockbuster GLP-1 obesity and diabetes drugs mislead consumers about the effectiveness of competing treatments. The complaint, filed on July 21, 2026, in the US District...
Novo alleges that Lilly’s Zepbound advertisements compare the drug’s highest approved dose with lower doses of Wegovy.