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How Eli Lilly Stock Reacted to Its Q2 2026 Earnings, Measured Minute by Minute

Every earnings headline that crossed for Eli Lilly on 5 August 2026, with the price reaction measured from the instant each line printed.

Published in ET: Feed time in ET: Earnings LLY +2.95% (15m)
  • Measured from the print at 10:45 UTC on 5 August 2026: $1141.30 to $1175.00 in fifteen minutes, +2.95%.
  • Every headline row is measured from its own instant, so the lines can be compared directly.
  • One-minute versus fifteen-minute readings show how fast the report was actually priced.

Eli Lilly's beat was taken at face value. Measured from the first line at 10:45 UTC, the stock moved from $1141.30 to $1175.00 over fifteen minutes: +2.95%.

This page is the measured anatomy of that print on 5 August 2026: every earnings-related headline that crossed for Eli Lilly, in order, each with the price reaction measured from its own instant.

The print, row by row

CrossedHeadline as recorded15-min move from that instantVolume vs normal
10:45 UTCUpdate: Eli Lilly (LLY) Q2 2026 (USD): Adj. EPS 8.38 (exp. 6.01), Revenue 23bln (exp. 20.7bln)+2.95%
10:45 UTCEli Lilly Q2 Adj. EPS $8.38 Beats $6.01 Estimate, Sales $22.974B Beat $20.725B Estimate+2.95%
10:46 UTCEli Lilly Narrows FY2026 Adj EPS Guidance from $35.50-$37.00 to $35.50-$36.50 vs $34.20 Est; Raises FY2026 Sales Guidance from $82.000B-$85.000B to $8-1.36%

Which line actually moved it

Each row above is measured from its own instant — the price immediately before that specific headline crossed — so the rows can be compared directly. The largest single reaction, +2.95%, belongs to the 10:45 UTC line. By the time the 10:46 UTC line arrived, the measured response was -1.36% — the marginal information in each successive headline decays fast, and the decay is measurable.

Did the first read hold?

It did. By the close of that session, Eli Lilly stood at +4.86% against the prior close — the same direction the first fifteen minutes priced. The instant read and the considered read agreed.

The cleanest case: better numbers, higher price, and a measurable window in which that repricing happened. The volume column shows how much participation confirmed it.

How these numbers were measured

We record the price of the instrument immediately before each headline crosses our tape, then again one minute and fifteen minutes later, together with traded volume against that instrument's own normal. Every figure on this page comes from those recordings — the timestamps are the actual instants the lines crossed. Nothing here is an estimate, a close-to-close change, or a model's guess. The method, the gates every page must pass, and how we correct errors are documented in our editorial standards.

How did Eli Lilly stock react to its Q2 2026 earnings?

Measured from the instant the first headline crossed on 5 August 2026 at 10:45 UTC, Eli Lilly moved from $1141.30 to $1175.00 over the following fifteen minutes — +2.95%. The measurement starts at the print itself, not at the open, so it isolates the report's own effect.

How fast was the report priced in?

One minute after the print the measured move was +1.48%; at fifteen minutes it was +2.95%. The gap between those two figures is the pricing-in window — how long the market took to finish reading.

Which headline moved Eli Lilly the most?

The 10:45 UTC line carried the largest measured reaction of the sequence at +2.95%. Later lines measured progressively less — repeat information decays within minutes.

Sources

  • Eli Lilly (LLY) earnings Q2 2026 - CNBC
    Eli Lilly reported Q2 2026 results on 5 August 2026: EPS $8.38 against expectations of $6.01, revenue $23.0bn up 48%, and full-year revenue guidance raised to $85-87bn from $82-85bn.
  • Lilly reports second-quarter 2026 financial results - Lilly IR
    Eli Lilly reported Q2 2026 results on 5 August 2026: EPS $8.38 against expectations of $6.01, revenue $23.0bn up 48%, and full-year revenue guidance raised to $85-87bn from $82-85bn.

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