Eli Lilly (NYSE: LLY) stock has had plenty of good trading sessions over the past year or so, but Monday's sure wasn't among them. The storied pharmaceutical company's shares lost nearly 5% of their value during the big market sell-off that day,

We believe there is minimal cause for concern with LLY stock, which makes it attractive but highly sensitive to adverse events as its current valuation is extremely

Shares of Eli Lilly & Co. LLY slid 4.73% to $869.58 Friday, on what proved to be an all-around positive trading session for the stock market, with the S&P 500 Index SPX rising 0.55% to 5,770.20 and the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA rising 0.52% to 42,801.72.

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Eli Lilly and Company’s LLY shares dipped almost 5% on Monday after rival Novo Nordisk NVO announced disappointing data from a late-stage study on next-generation obesity drug, CagriSema. Top-line data from the phase III REDEFINE 2 study on Novo Nordisk’s CagriSema showed that treatment with the drug led to a weight loss of 15.