LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC (LGND)
NASDAQ · Pharmaceuticals & Biotech · Pharmaceutical Preparations
- Price
- $298.41
- Day
- -0.03%
- Market cap
- $5.95B
- P/E
- 30.2
Close 2026-09-23.
The company
Overview We are a biopharmaceutical royalty company focused on deploying capital and licensing technologies to acquire and create diversified royalty streams from high-value medicines. Our primary business is investing in and structuring royalty interests in mid- to late-stage development and commercial biopharmaceutical products, allowing us to generate long-duration, non-dilutive cash flows supported by a lean corporate cost structure. Capital deployment and technology licensing are the primary drivers of our long-term growth. We partner capital through a range of transaction structures—including royalty purchases, development-stage financing arrangements, and acquisitions of companies or assets with embedded royalty rights—designed to create cash flowing royalties and produce attractive risk-adjusted returns. Our goal is to provide investors with exposure to biopharmaceutical innovation through a diversified portfolio of royalty interests while mitigating the binary risk and capital intensity traditionally associated with drug development. In addition to our royalty investment activities, we operate two infrastructure-light, royalty-generating platform technologies, Captisol ® and NITRICIL ® . These technologies exemplify our platform technology investment criteria: infrastructure-light, scalable intellectual property with existing royalty streams and the potential to generate incremental royalties through partner-driven development and commercialization.
From Item 1: Overview.
Institutional holders
Largest positions reported on Form 13F for the quarter ended 2026-06-30, by value.
- BlackRock, Inc. — $703.24M
- VANGUARD PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT LLC — $359.81M
- Jupiter Topco LLC — $297.71M
- VANGUARD CAPITAL MANAGEMENT LLC — $275.3M
- Invesco Ltd. — $274.3M
- STATE STREET CORP — $261.25M
- FMR LLC — $231.74M
- CONGRESS ASSET MANAGEMENT CO — $208.59M
Insider trades
Open-market buys and sales filed on Form 4, newest first. Grants, option exercises and tax withholding are left out.
- Zimmermann Martine (Director) sold 1,200 shares at $285.00 on 2026-09-10
- Reardon Andrew (CLO & Secretary) sold 300 shares at $283.99 on 2026-09-03
- Reardon Andrew (CLO & Secretary) sold 1,800 shares at $285.17 on 2026-09-03
- Reardon Andrew (CLO & Secretary) sold 2,115 shares at $286.36 on 2026-09-03
- Reardon Andrew (CLO & Secretary) sold 385 shares at $287.53 on 2026-09-03
- Reardon Andrew (CLO & Secretary) sold 400 shares at $288.98 on 2026-09-03
Recent filings
- 8-K — 2026-09-22
- 4 — 2026-09-14
- 144 — 2026-09-10
- 4 — 2026-09-08
- 144 — 2026-09-03
- 8-K/A — 2026-09-02
- 4 — 2026-08-14
- 4 — 2026-08-14
- SCHEDULE 13G — 2026-08-13
- 144 — 2026-08-12