The First Trillion Dollar Healthcare Company

Eli Lilly is nearing $900 billion market cap and is on pace to become the first trillion dollar healthcare company:

I have long followed healthcare stocks because I do believe they bring a lot of insight into health, innovation, and the natural sciences. After all, they are tasked with curing challenging diseases, sicknesses, and other aspects to help humans. Most recently, a certain stock has caught my attention.

However, I must say I am writing this post as much to celebrate this ascent, but to also say that I am flat out confused by the move. Every metric I see actually shows that Americans are getting more unhealthy, and to the point whereby the life expectancy curve is either flatlining or going down:

Markets love irony. What I mean is, while all the health data says things are rather bleak, we are also on the way to seeing the first trillion dollar healthcare company. One might think the opposite would be happening.

I’m sure there’s a bigger story at play here and I will be looking into it. More importantly, I would add that several bellwethers in the healthcare industry are performing rather terribly as well. Perhaps Pfizer’s stock tells us another story:

I’ll be watching this closely in the coming weeks and months.

Written by Stefan Cheplick, a fintech builder and writer with experience at Stocktwits and TradingView. Background and published work.