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ELI Lilly and Company: investing cash flow

ELI Lilly and Company investing cash flow: -$11.0 billion for the year ending 2025-12-31, down 18.0% on the year. 19 values since 2007 from SEC filings.

All ELI Lilly and Company financial histories

At a glance

ELI Lilly and Company reported investing cash flow of -$11.0 billion for the year ending 2025-12-31, down 18.0% from -$9.30 billion a year earlier. Across the last five reported years it ranged from -$11.0 billion (2025-12-31) to -$2.87 billion (2021-12-31).

Computed from the values in the table below, in USD; each links to the filing it came from.

What this measure means

Net cash from investing activities, including asset purchases, disposals and investment transactions. This differs from capital expenditure payments alone.

Exact concept: us-gaap:NetCashProvidedByUsedInInvestingActivities. Each value covers an annual-duration reporting interval, shown with both start and end dates. Different units remain separate; no currency conversion or interpolation is applied.

Coverage of this history

Selected reporting periods run from 2007-01-01 to 2025-12-31. The SEC response was captured on 2026-09-19.

Selected filing history

Investing cash flow in original reported units, latest-filed observation per period
Period startPeriod endValueUnitFiledSource filing
2025-01-012025-12-31-10,972,000,000USD2026-02-1210-K · 0000059478-26-000013 SEC
2024-01-012024-12-31-9,302,000,000USD2026-02-1210-K · 0000059478-26-000013 SEC
2023-01-012023-12-31-7,153,000,000USD2026-02-1210-K · 0000059478-26-000013 SEC
2022-01-012022-12-31-3,762,900,000USD2025-02-1910-K · 0000059478-25-000067 SEC
2021-01-012021-12-31-2,867,500,000USD2024-02-2110-K · 0000059478-24-000065 SEC
2020-01-012020-12-31-2,258,900,000USD2023-02-2210-K · 0000059478-23-000082 SEC
2019-01-012019-12-31-8,082,900,000USD2022-02-2310-K · 0000059478-22-000068 SEC
2018-01-012018-12-311,906,000,000USD2021-02-1710-K · 0000059478-21-000083 SEC
2017-01-012017-12-31-3,783,600,000USD2020-02-1910-K · 0000059478-20-000057 SEC
2016-01-012016-12-31-3,139,100,000USD2019-02-1910-K · 0000059478-19-000082 SEC
2015-01-012015-12-3126,800,000USD2018-02-2010-K · 0000059478-18-000089 SEC
2014-01-012014-12-31-3,909,100,000USD2017-02-2110-K · 0000059478-17-000098 SEC
2013-01-012013-12-31-2,072,800,000USD2016-02-1910-K · 0000059478-16-000321 SEC
2012-01-012012-12-31-2,832,800,000USD2015-02-1910-K · 0000059478-15-000100 SEC
2011-01-012011-12-31-4,824,400,000USD2014-02-1910-K · 0000059478-14-000078 SEC
2010-01-012010-12-31-3,159,800,000USD2013-02-2110-K · 0000059478-13-000007 SEC
2009-01-012009-12-31142,800,000USD2012-02-2410-K · 0001193125-12-078393 SEC
2008-01-012008-12-31-7,268,800,000USD2011-02-2210-K · 0001193125-11-041620 SEC
2007-01-012007-12-31-4,328,100,000USD2010-02-2210-K · 0000950123-10-014958 SEC

Related ELI LILLY AND COMPANY histories

All 54 ELI Lilly and Company histories

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Entity
ELI LILLY AND COMPANY / CIK 0000059478
Captured
SEC response SHA-256
3fe29099e6efaef9acac95711c271de1a644602939ea18487e29708310985942

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import json
from urllib.request import urlopen

with urlopen("https://canlicapital.com/company-data/0000059478.json") as response:
    record = json.load(response)
print(record["fetched_at"])
print(record["policy"])
for concept in record["concepts"]:
    print(concept["tag"], next(iter(concept["observations"])))