What if you invested monthly in Eli Lilly for 15 years?
See the trajectory of contributing 300,000 KRW a month for 15 years into Eli Lilly, the drugmaker spotlighted for diabetes and obesity treatments. As a pharma single stock driven heavily by drug success, its big gains come alongside company-specific risks like trial failures and regulation - so view the maximum drawdown and loss period together.
⚠️ This asset is an individual stock chosen as of today, so past returns can look better than they really were (survivorship bias).
Investment conditions
Asset · Eli Lilly (LLY)
Method · Recurring monthly investment
Period · 2011-07-01 ~ 2026-07-01
Amount · $222 / month
As of · 2026-07-01
Key metrics
These results do not reflect taxes. Based on historical data.
Risk & recovery
As important as returns. This service does not hide maximum drawdown or loss periods.
Maximum drawdown (MDD)
-34.0%
Largest drop from peak
Longest loss period
2months
Months in loss: 2
Recovery period
3months
Growth over time
Invested principal (dashed) and portfolio value (solid). Values below match the calculation.
Total invested $40,222 → Final value $582,132 (+1347.3%), Maximum drawdown (MDD) -34.0%
Why this period and asset
Eli Lilly is a large, long-established U.S. drugmaker that has drawn attention in diabetes and, more recently, obesity treatments. Pharma earnings hinge heavily on clinical success, approvals, and patent expirations. From this scenario's start in July 2011, there were stretches of strong gains as pipeline expectations grew, but that also raised valuation risk and volatility. Trial results or regulatory issues can trigger the sharp, stock-specific swings typical of an individual name. This scenario covers the 15 years from July 2011 to July 2026.
Interpreting the result
Dollar-cost averaging invests the same amount monthly to smooth your cost. A pharma stock like Eli Lilly, pricing in drug hopes, can post high multiples during strong runs, but stock-specific bad news such as a trial failure or a regulatory change can trigger a steep single-day drop. On the result screen, check your ending value along with the maximum drawdown during the period, how long it stayed below your contributions, and the recovery time. Rather than assuming the future from past gains, weigh the single-stock concentration risk and volatility together.
Caveats & limits
This is a simulation of a single stock - Eli Lilly - that happens to have survived and become well known, and past performance does not guarantee future results. The fact that this one worked out says nothing about how other individual stocks will do: countless companies that listed in the same era and then failed or lagged never appear here, which is survivorship bias. A single stock carries far deeper maximum drawdowns, longer periods underwater, and concentration risk - if the business breaks down, it may never recover. Taxes (capital gains, dividends), trading fees, and the KRW/USD exchange rate are not reflected, so real returns differ. This is not a recommendation of any stock; it simply shows what already happened.
Data sources & limits
- Price data source: Yahoo Finance / FinanceDataReader
- Collected on: 2026-07-23
- Effective trading date: 2026-07-01
- Price basis: Cierre ajustado (refleja dividendos y desdoblamientos de acciones)
- This asset is an individual stock chosen as of today, so past returns can look better than they really were (survivorship bias).
- Trading fees and taxes are not reflected — figures are pre-tax.
- Based on historical data; does not guarantee future returns.
Frequently asked questions
With 300,000 KRW a month for 15 years, how much do I actually invest?
You contribute 300,000 KRW each month for 15 years - about 180 installments in total. The result screen shows both your total contributions and the ending value, and what matters as much as the final figure is how far it fell and recovered along the way.
How is a single stock like Eli Lilly different from indexing?
An index (e.g., the S&P 500) spreads risk across hundreds of companies, while a single stock concentrates it in one. When it works it can far outpace the index, but if the business stumbles the maximum drawdown is deeper and the time underwater is often longer. Always check the max drawdown, loss period, and recovery time.
Does this result include taxes, fees, and exchange rates?
No. It reflects share-price movement only; capital-gains and dividend taxes, trading fees, and the KRW/USD exchange rate are excluded. Your real brokerage return will differ from the displayed figure because of these.
Related scenarios
📋 Los resultados se basan en datos históricos; las rentabilidades pasadas no garantizan rentabilidades futuras.
📋 Este servicio se ofrece con fines educativos para ayudarte a entender la inversión, no como asesoramiento de inversión.
⚠️ Calculado usando los activos representativos de hoy, que pueden diferir de la composición del mercado de aquel momento.