Eli Lilly’s stock has climbed almost 60% this year and trades for more than $900. The pharma giant also has seen soaring sales thanks to its dominance in the high-growth weight loss drug market. This is thanks to Lilly's dominance in the billion-dollar weight loss drug market.

Since the start of 2020, Eli Lilly’s (NYSE: LLY) stock price chart has been straight up and to the right, up 584.52% and currently trading at $905.00. The company has been around since 1876 and the stock didn’t go public until 1952 but in the last 4 years,

Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. LLY sank 0.13% to $904.97 Wednesday, on what proved to be an all-around poor trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX falling 0.29% to 5,618.26 and Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA falling 0.25% to 41,503.10.

Eli Lilly and Company’s LLY stock has risen 21.1% in six months compared with an increase of 10.5% for the industry. The stock has also outperformed the sector as well as the S&P 500 as seen in the chart below.