Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

LGND Healthcare Biotechnology

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $268.1 million, up 60.4% from fiscal 2024. In the quarter to June 2026, revenue grew 33.7%, EPS grew 868.0% and free cash flow grew 35.5%, each against the same quarter a year earlier.

295.54 2.96 −0.99%
Market cap
$6.0B
P/E
29.5×
Fwd P/E
54.7×
Dividend yield
—
F-score
6/9
Altman Z
5.45
Beneish M
−4.02
Dividend safety
n/a

Insider Decisions trades per month

Total sells 33.21
Totals in millions of $.
Dec 25 Mar 26 Jun 26 Sep 26
Buy — — — — — — — — — — — —
Sell 3 2 1 1 7 2 2 5 1 3 2 —
Insider Ownership 3.06%

Capital & Financial Ratios $m

Market Cap 5,950.00
Revenue 290.54
Net Income 197.22
Free Cash Flow 143.37
Net Debt (244.15)
Current Ratio 31.18 (at or above 1.5: strong)
Debt/Equity 1.16
P/E ratio 29.52
Fwd P/E 54.70 (above 35: high)
P/S ratio 20.41 (above 10: high)
P/B ratio 6.13 (above 6: high)
Past 5Y EPS Growth —
This Y EPS Growth 14.46%
Next Y EPS Growth 30.13% (at or above 15%: strong)
Next Y revenue growth 8.02%
Next 5Y EPS Growth 21.49% (at or above 15%: strong)

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Valuation vs history

P/E against its own 10 years 50.97%
10-year low 10-year high
P/S against its own 10 years 98.38%
10-year low 10-year high
P/B against its own 10 years 98.53%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/Sales against its own 10 years 95.39%
10-year low 10-year high
EV/FCF against its own 10 years 76.72%
10-year low 10-year high

Dividends

Payout Ratio —
Annual Dividend Rate —
Annual Dividend Yield —
total individual payouts
2023 Powerpack
2022 Powerpack
2021 Powerpack
2020 Powerpack
2019 Powerpack
2017 Powerpack
special payouts not included in total or ratios

Assets vs Liabilities $m

2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Cash 170 266 756 1,371
Receivables 39 42 61 70
Inventory 24 14 9 10
Other 3 9 6 6
237 332 832 1,457
2023 2024 2025 Q'26
Payables 2 5 3 9
ST’ Debt — — — —
Other 0 2 0 1
17 37 37 47

Compound Annual Growth %

10y 5y 3y
Sales 14.06% 10.39% 10.96%
Cash Flow 1.69% (1.99%) (28.99%)
Earnings (5.95%) 0.00% 0.00%
Book Value 15.67% 7.47% 19.41%

Revenue $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 52 64 — — —
’25 45 48 115 60 268
’24 31 42 52 43 167
’23 44 26 33 28 131
’22 37 50 59 50 196
’21 55 85 65 37 242
’20 33 41 42 47 164
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Operating Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 49 24 — — —
’25 (25) 16 13 46 49
’24 19 13 37 28 97
’23 34 0 8 8 50
’22 52 12 20 53 138
’21 11 20 20 28 79
’20 17 24 13 1 55
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Free Cash Flow $m

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 55 24 — — —
’25 (24) 18 14 46 48
’24 18 13 41 17 85
’23 32 0 7 (43) (4)
’22 47 5 16 51 120
’21 7 19 18 26 71
’20 17 24 11 0 51
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

EPS $

Mar Jun Sep Dec Year
’26 (0.67) 2.22 — — —
’25 (2.21) 0.24 5.68 2.12 6.13
’24 4.75 (2.88) (0.39) (1.64) (0.22)
’23 2.33 0.13 (0.59) 1.03 2.94
’22 (0.91) (0.05) 0.02 (1.04) (1.98)
’21 1.05 1.79 0.80 (0.30) 3.34
’20 (1.46) 1.32 (0.42) 0.35 (0.18)
Fiscal quarters ending in the months shown.

Target Price Range

Analyst price targets

Recommendation Rating

1.1
1Buy 2 3Hold 4 5Sell

Ten years at a glance Fiscal years to December

Group Line 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Trend 2026e 2027e 2028e
Price, $
Price, $ Low 51.19 59.31 79.98 52.68 35.71 61.52 45.27 49.24 67.53 93.58

Analyst estimates 2026–2028

Powerpack
High 87.21 93.14 173.81 90.42 79.73 137.09 97.49 85.70 129.90 212.49
People
People Employees 22 39 116 115 115 154 76 58 68 47
Revenue/emp, $m 4.95 3.62 2.17 1.05 1.42 1.57 2.58 2.26 2.46 5.70
Income, $m
Income, $m Revenue 109 141 251 120 164 242 196 131 167 268
Gross margin, % 94.89 96.20 97.48 90.57 81.40 74.26 73.08 91.99 93.37 94.57
EBT 8 57 173 797 1 72 36 64 3 159
EBT margin, % 7.30 40.56 68.93 662.31 0.79 29.89 18.35 48.48 1.51 59.29
Net income (2) 13 143 629 (3) 57 (33) 52 (4) 124
Depreciation 23 23 53 63 53 68 52 35 34 30
Per share, $
Per share, $ Revenue 5.23 6.71 11.88 6.33 10.11 14.52 11.63 7.59 9.14 13.86
Earnings (0.08) 0.60 6.77 33.13 (0.18) 3.46 (1.98) 3.02 (0.22) 6.44
Cash flow 2.92 4.21 9.17 (1.54) 3.37 4.74 8.17 2.87 5.31 2.55
Capex (0.94) 0.23 (0.51) (0.13) (0.19) (0.50) (1.06) (3.09) (0.67) (0.05)
Free cash flow 1.98 4.44 8.66 (1.68) 3.18 4.24 7.12 (0.22) 4.64 2.50
Book value 16.38 19.01 26.51 40.39 43.84 49.38 35.42 40.52 45.40 52.60
Shares, m 21 21 21 19 16 17 17 17 18 19
Valuation, ×
Valuation, × P/E 0.00 144.13 12.54 2.13 0.00 27.85 0.00 23.79 0.00 30.01
P/S 12.22 12.89 7.12 10.27 6.14 6.63 5.68 9.53 11.73 13.64
P/B 3.90 4.55 3.19 1.61 1.42 1.95 1.86 1.78 2.36 3.59
EV/Sales 13.15 13.19 6.58 6.70 6.38 6.56 5.04 8.86 10.63 12.77
EV/FCF 34.80 19.64 8.70 (22.97) 21.36 22.98 8.84 (301.84) 19.80 56.19
Cash, $m
Cash, $m Operating cash flow 61 89 194 (29) 55 79 138 50 97 49
Capex (20) 5 (11) (3) (3) (8) (18) (53) (12) (1)
Free cash flow 41 93 183 (32) 51 71 120 (4) 85 48
Balance, $m
Balance, $m Working capital (64) (2) 788 1,107 400 423 165 221 294 795
Total debt 242 243 636 640 450 322 87 — — 446
Net debt 101 42 (138) (430) 39 (19) (125) (170) (266) (310)
Shareholders’ equity 341 400 561 767 710 821 597 701 830 1,017
Returns, %
Returns, % ROA (0.30) 1.97 14.84 45.67 (0.21) 4.30 (3.24) 6.73 (0.47) 9.95
ROIC 6.20 9.64 24.17 149.54 3.13 8.10 0.40 1.41 (2.50) 3.62
ROE (0.57) 3.39 29.84 94.76 (0.40) 7.47 (4.70) 8.03 (0.53) 13.47
Negative figures in brackets.

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Charts ten years each

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated vs peers in Biotechnology (Q) = latest quarter vs a year earlier

Company Market cap P/E Fwd P/E Revenue growth (Q) EPS growth (Q) FCF growth (Q) Gross margin (Q) EBIT margin (Q) Compare
IOVA Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. $6.7B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +65.65% (above 0%: growing) n/m +11.52% (above 0%: growing) 56.10% (52.26%) Compare
BLTE Belite Bio, Inc. Sponsored ADR $6.2B — (loss-making) — — n/m +64.67% (above 0%: growing) — 0.00% Compare
RYTM Rhythm Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $6.1B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +46.91% (above 0%: growing) n/m +60.74% (above 0%: growing) 87.47% (68.14%) Compare
LGND Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated $6.0B 29.5× 54.7× +33.73% (above 0%: growing) +868.00% (above 0%: growing) +35.53% (above 0%: growing) 94.95% 13.49%
IMVT Immunovant, Inc. $5.7B — (loss-making) — — n/m −5.96% (below 0%: shrinking) 0.00% 0.00% Compare
KOD Kodiak Sciences Inc. $5.5B — (loss-making) — — n/m −33.86% (below 0%: shrinking) 0.00% 0.00% Compare
CGON CG Oncology, Inc. $5.5B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +2,125.00% (above 0%: growing) n/m −67.60% (below 0%: shrinking) (239.24%) (7,467.68%) Compare
MIRM Mirum Pharmaceuticals, Inc. $5.4B — (loss-making) — (loss-making) +37.92% (above 0%: growing) n/m −681.46% (below 0%: shrinking) 82.78% (24.14%) Compare
ERAS Erasca, Inc. $5.2B — (loss-making) — — n/m −4.67% (below 0%: shrinking) 0.00% 0.00% Compare
Median of peers $5.6B — — +56.28% — −5.31% 0.00% (12.07%)

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (LGND) key facts

  • Strength: Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated’s revenue for fiscal 2025 (year ended December 2025) was $268.1 million, up 60.4% from fiscal 2024.
  • Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (LGND) is a Biotechnology company in the Healthcare sector, listed on Nasdaq.
  • As of October 16, 2026, LGND traded at $295.54, a market capitalization of $6.0 billion.
  • Return on equity was 13.5% and debt-to-equity 1.16.
  • Its Piotroski F-score is 6 out of 9 and its Altman Z-score is 5.45 (safe zone) for fiscal 2025.

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