LGND

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated
NasdaqGMUSDEQUITY Healthcare DELAYED
Last price
296.94
▼ 9.83 (3.20%)
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Price

1D — H — L — Range — Vol —
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Open
—
Prev close
306.77
Day high
309.41
Day low
293.73
Volume
163.74K
Market cap
$5.92B
P/E (TTM)
31.29
52W range
175.89 – 326.63

Trailing performance

Price return · vs SPY
Returnvs SPY
1W
-4.32% -6.3%
1M
+3.97% +2.8%
3M
-5.70% -10.2%
6M
+44.78% +26.6%
YTD
+57.05% +42.8%
1Y
+64.06% +47.6%
3Y
+395.56% +313.3%
5Y
— —

Price return only. Dividends are not reinvested, so total return on a dividend payer will be higher than shown.

Unusual options activity

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Nothing crossed the thresholds in the expiries we scanned.
That is the normal state — most contracts trade well inside their existing open interest.
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Contracts trading at or above their open interest, ranked by notional and where the print landed.

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Options chains and analytics, valuation ratios, insider filings, analyst targets and ownership. No card, no trial, nothing to cancel.

Insider net activity

6m · Form 4 rollup
Net shares
-12.13K
Net selling
Buy transactions
17
73.55K shares
Sell transactions
13
85.68K shares
Net transactions
+30
Buys less sells
Sell : buy shares
1.2 : 1
Mixed
Insider-held shares
467.09K
Total on file
Bought 73.55KSold 85.68K

Insider transactions

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DateInsiderAction SharesValueHeld
Sep 10, 26
ZIMMERMANN MARTINE
Director
SELL 1.20K $342.00K Direct
Sep 3, 26
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer
SELL 5.00K $1.43M Direct
Aug 12, 26
HAAS JASON
Director
CONVERSION 6.14K $316.48K Direct
Aug 12, 26
ESPINOZA OCTAVIO
Chief Financial Officer
CONVERSION 31.64K $1.80M Direct
Aug 12, 26
HAAS JASON
Director
SELL 7.14K $2.09M Direct
Aug 12, 26
ESPINOZA OCTAVIO
Chief Financial Officer
SELL 31.64K $9.24M Direct
Aug 3, 26
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer
CONVERSION 5.00K $261.35K Direct
Aug 3, 26
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer
SELL 5.00K $1.44M Direct
Jul 1, 26
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer
CONVERSION 5.00K $261.35K Direct
Jul 1, 26
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer
SELL 5.00K $1.57M Direct
Jun 16, 26
SABBA STEPHEN L.
Director
CONVERSION 2.15K $141.85K Direct
Jun 16, 26
SABBA STEPHEN L.
Director
SELL 2.15K $544.83K Direct
Jun 12, 26
HAAS JASON
Director
CONVERSION 4.00K $206.24K Direct
Jun 12, 26
HAAS JASON
Director
SELL 6.46K $1.65M Direct
What this is, and what it is not

These are SEC Form 4 filings — officers, directors and 10% owners reporting their own trades in the company's stock. Filing is due within two business days of the transaction, so this lags reality by days, and the provider adds its own lag on top.

A sale is not automatically bearish. Executives sell on scheduled 10b5-1 plans, to cover tax on vesting equity, and to diversify. Purchases with cash are generally the more informative signal, and they are far rarer.

This does not include congressional or senate trading. That comes from STOCK Act disclosures filed with the Senate eFD system and the House Clerk, which this data source does not carry.

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Officer and director trades in their own stock, straight from Form 4 filings.

Insider holders

10 reporting
NameRelationShares heldLatest
ARYEH JASON M
Director 115.58K Sale
DAVIS TODD CLIFTON
Chief Executive Officer 199.38K Stock Award(Grant)
ESPINOZA OCTAVIO
Chief Financial Officer 27.70K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
GRAY NANCY RYAN
Director 8.93K Stock Award(Grant)
HAAS JASON
Director 3.98K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
KOZARICH JOHN W.
Director 42.62K Stock Award(Grant)
LAMATTINA JOHN L
Director 26.97K Sale
REARDON ANDREW THOMAS
Officer 36.51K Sale
SABBA STEPHEN L.
Director 33.63K Conversion of Exercise of derivative security
ZIMMERMANN MARTINE
Director 3.90K Sale

Fundamentals

TTM · reported
Market cap$5.92B
Enterprise value$5.69B
Revenue (TTM)$290.54M
Gross profit$235.92M
EBITDA$133.01M
Net income$197.22M
EPS (TTM)$9.49
Free cash flow$139.75M
Total cash$1.36B
Total debt$1.13B
Book value / share$48.57
Shares outstanding19.94M
Float19.48M
Short % of float15.83%
Dividend yield0.00%
Beta (5Y)1.01

Valuation & profitability ratios

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Trailing P/E31.29
Forward P/E24.85
PEG ratio1.53
Price / sales—
Price / book6.11
EV / revenue19.60
EV / EBITDA42.80
Gross margin81.20%
Operating margin13.49%
Profit margin67.88%
Return on equity21.96%
Return on assets3.99%
Debt / equity116.94
Current ratio31.18
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Fourteen ratios including P/E, PEG, EV/EBITDA, margins and return on equity.

Financial statements

As reported · 5 years · 5 quarters
Blank means not reported, not zero
Line item2025202420232022YoY
Total revenue $268.09M$167.13M$131.31M$196.25M +60.4%
Operating revenue $268.09M$167.13M$131.31M$196.25M +60.4%
Cost of revenue $14.55M$11.07M$10.51M$52.83M +31.4%
Gross profit $253.54M$156.06M$120.80M$143.42M +62.5%
Research & development $81.18M$21.43M$24.54M$36.08M +278.9%
Selling, general & admin $92.45M$78.65M$52.79M$70.06M +17.5%
Total operating expense $206.34M$133.04M$110.98M$140.38M +55.1%
Operating income $47.20M$23.02M$9.82M$3.04M +105.0%
Net interest income $8.94M$5.02M$7.05M$247.00K +78.2%
Pre-tax income $158.96M$2.52M$63.66M$36.01M +6,212.9%
Tax provision $34.51M$6.55M$9.84M$41.23M +426.8%
Net income $124.45M-$4.03M$52.15M-$33.36M +3,186.6%
Net income to common $124.45M-$4.03M$52.15M-$33.36M +3,186.6%
Basic EPS 6.44-0.223.02-1.98 +3,027.3%
Diluted EPS 6.13-0.222.94-1.98 +2,886.4%
EBIT $163.68M$5.55M$64.32M$37.81M +2,846.4%
EBITDA $197.45M$40.79M$100.84M$89.34M +384.0%
Basic shares 19.34M18.29M17.30M16.87M +5.7%
Diluted shares 20.29M18.29M17.76M16.87M +11.0%

Options analytics

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Put / call volume
0.27
Call-heavy session
Put / call open interest
—
Positioning, not flow
Max pain
180.00
-39.4% from spot
ATM implied vol
1.6%
Nearest strike to spot
Skew (10% OTM)
0.0%
Calls bid over puts
Call volume
15
Contracts, this expiry
Put volume
4
Contracts, this expiry
Heaviest call OI
180.00
0 contracts
Heaviest put OI
230.00
0 contracts

Max pain is the strike at which the largest dollar value of open contracts expires worthless. It describes current positioning; it is not a forecast and it moves as open interest changes.

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Put/call ratios, max pain, implied volatility skew and where open interest is concentrated.

Earnings

History & consensus estimates
Reported vs expected · EPS
QuarterEst.ActualSurprise
Jun 2026 1.952.37 +21.5%
Mar 2026 1.801.63 -9.6%
Dec 2025 1.502.02 +34.9%
Sep 2025 1.933.09 +60.5%
Forward consensus
PeriodEPSAnalystsRevenueGrowth
Current quarter 2.31 10 $78.01M -32.4%
Next quarter 2.99 10 $96.55M +61.8%
Current year 9.31 10 $289.64M +8.0%
Next year 11.95 10 $381.49M +31.7%

Analyst targets & ownership

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Mean target$344.25
High target$397.00
Low target$247.00
Implied upside15.93%
Analyst count12
ConsensusSTRONG BUY
Strong buy / Buy3 / 8
Hold0
Sell / Strong sell0 / 0
Held by insiders2.34%
Held by institutions116.13%
Institutions holding550
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Price targets, consensus spread, insider and institutional ownership.

Moving averages & technicals

Computed from 2Y daily closes
SMA 10
304.52
-2.49% from price
SMA 20
294.83
+0.72% from price
SMA 50
291.85
+1.74% from price
SMA 100
280.95
+5.69% from price
SMA 200
242.84
+22.28% from price
EMA 12
300.91
-1.32% from price
EMA 26
296.36
+0.20% from price
EMA 50
291.64
+1.82% from price
RSI (14)
50.7
Neutral
MACD (12,26,9)
4.55
Hist 0.62
ATR (14)
10.15
3.42% of price
Realised vol 30D
27.1%
Annualised
Bollinger upper
317.75
20, 2σ
Bollinger lower
271.90
20, 2σ
50 / 200 cross
Golden
291.85 vs 242.84
Trend bias
Above 200
+22.28%

Options chain

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Expiry
Spot 296.94
Calls
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Puts
StrikeLastBidAskVolOIIV
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Every listed expiry, both sides of the book, with volume, open interest and implied volatility.

Risk profile

Daily returns · 1Y window
Beta vs SPY
0.77
Less volatile than market
Correlation to SPY
0.27
Largely independent
Realised vol 30D
27.1%
Annualised
Market vol 1Y
13.0%
SPY, annualised
Max drawdown 1Y
-14.7%
Peak to trough
Max drawdown 5Y
-55.1%
Peak to trough
ATR 14
10.15
3.42% of price
Beta (reported)
1.01
5Y monthly, from filing

Short interest

Semi-monthly exchange report · lags by ~2 weeks
Shares short
2.63M
Prior 2.45M
Change vs prior
+7.5%
Shorts adding
% of float
15.83%
Elevated
% of shares out
13.20%
Against total outstanding
Days to cover
14.1
Crowded exit
Float
19.48M
Freely tradeable shares

Exchanges publish short interest twice a month with a settlement lag, so this is roughly two weeks behind. Days to cover divides shares short by average daily volume — it estimates how long covering would take, not whether it will happen.

Rating changes

122 on file
DateFirm ActionFromTo
Sep 25, 26 Barclays INITIATED — Overweight
Sep 24, 26 HC Wainwright & Co. MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Sep 23, 26 Citigroup MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Aug 14, 26 Leerink Partners INITIATED — Outperform
Aug 7, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Aug 6, 26 HC Wainwright & Co. MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Aug 3, 26 Oppenheimer MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 15, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Jul 9, 26 B of A Securities MAINTAINED Buy Buy
Jul 8, 26 Stifel MAINTAINED Buy Buy
May 8, 26 RBC Capital MAINTAINED Outperform Outperform
Apr 30, 26 HC Wainwright & Co. MAINTAINED Buy Buy

Dividends & splits

Declared · from the issuer
Forward rate—
Forward yield0.00%
5-year avg yield—
Payout ratio0.00%
Ex-dividend dateJul 2, 2010
Next pay date—
Last split1603:1000
Split dateNov 2, 2022

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