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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc.

$297.50 -$3.03 (-1.01%) 1D Pre-market

Key Metrics

$6.02B
Market cap
39.22×
P/E · TTM
$274.48M
Revenue · TTM
$153.56M
Net income
EPS · TTM $8.00
Dividend yield
Free cash flow $123.03M
Beta · 1Y 0.83
EBITDA · TTM $218.10M
Gross margin

The Story So Far

LAST 6 MONTHS PRIMARY SOURCES ONLY
  • Jul 16
    Money rotated out of high-beta cohorts market-wide.

    High-beta names lagged the blue-chips by 20.3 points over ten sessions around this date. Stocks in that cohort weren't falling alone — they fell together.

    RECEIPT: ROTATION GAUGE, LIVE
  • May 7
    The stock moved -9.6% in a single session.

    Sessions this size usually pair with a chapter above or below — a filing, a headline, or the whole cohort moving together.

    RECEIPT: DAILY BAR, May 7
  • Apr 14
    The stock moved +8.9% in a single session.

    Sessions this size usually pair with a chapter above or below — a filing, a headline, or the whole cohort moving together.

    RECEIPT: DAILY BAR, Apr 14

The story updates itself as events post · The wolf reports; you decide

Snapshot

Market cap$6.02B
Enterprise value
Shares outstanding20.0M
52-wk range$129.55 – $326.63
Avg volume · 20D183.1K
Net cash
Book value / share$51.97
IndustryPharmaceutical Preparations
ExchangeNASDAQ
About Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc.
IPO dateNov 25, 1994
Employees47

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and acquiring technologies that aid in creating medicine. The company has partnerships and license agreements with various pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies.

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Valuation

P/E39.22
P/S21.94
P/FCF48.96
EV/EBITDA
EV/Sales
Graham №$96.73

Profitability

Gross
Operating 67.4%
Net 55.9%
FCF 44.8%
ROE / ROIC 16.8% · 70.5%

Financial Health

Current ratio21.28
Quick ratio20.95
Debt / equity
Debt / EBITDA
Net cash
Working capital$824.75M

Cash Flow · TTM

Operating CF $123.50M
Capex −$466.00K
Free cash flow $123.03M
Buybacks
Dividends paid
Shareholder yield

Piotroski F-Score

4 / 9
Middling fundamentals · 4 of 9 signals passing

Altman Z-Score

8.5
Safe zone (> 2.99) · bankruptcy risk negligible

Graham Number vs Price

$96.73 vs $297.50
Trades 3.1× above classic defensive value — priced for growth
Fundamentals through 2026-03-31 · computed by TickerWolf from SEC filings