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LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC LGND

Pharmaceutical Preparations · CIK 0000886163 · Fiscal year ends 1231

Revenue
$268.09M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Operating income
$41.00M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31
Free cash flow
$48.91M
Fiscal year ended 2025-12-31

Valuation, from the filing

Public float$1.60BMarket value of stock held by non-affiliates, as stated on the cover page for 2025-06-30
Float per share$80.24Float divided by shares outstanding in the same filing. A floor under the share price on that date, not the price itself.
Float / net income12.9×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / revenue6.0×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.
Float / equity1.6×A lower bound on the multiple, because affiliate holdings are excluded.

Every figure here is drawn from the 10-K cover page and the statements behind it, so each one traces to a filing. Public float counts only stock held by non-affiliates, which makes these floors rather than estimates: a high multiple is conclusive, a low one may mean cheap or may mean closely held. The float was measured on 2025-06-30, not today, and each multiple below it uses the figures for the fiscal year ending 2025-12-31 — the year that filing covered.

Valuation over time

12.9× earnings today, against a median of 21.2× across 6 years on record. Below its own history.

Float measuredPublic floatFloat / net income
2025-06-30$1.60B12.9×
2023-06-30$900.00M17.3×
2021-06-30$1.80B31.5×
2019-06-28$1.80B2.9×
2018-06-30$3.60B25.1×
2017-06-30$2.20B175.2×

Each float is paired with the fiscal year the filing that stated it covers. Only years where the company reported positive net income appear, because a multiple against a loss is not a multiple.

How this compares in its industry

Percentile among the Pharmaceutical Preparations filers on this site, highest value first. A high percentile means a large figure, which is good for a margin and not for leverage — the ranking says where the company sits, not whether that is where it should be.

MeasureReportedPercentile
Current ratio22.23x96th
Net margin46.4%95th
Operating margin15.3%89th
CapEx / revenue0.2%13th
FCF margin18.2%85th
Revenue YoY growth60.4%78th
R&D / revenue30.3%28th
Effective tax rate21.7%66th
SBC / revenue17.5%46th

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC (LGND) reported revenue of $268.09M and net income of $124.45M for the fiscal year ended 2025-12-31. This page shows 10 annual periods of income statement, balance sheet and cash flow figures normalized from LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC’s SEC filings, each linked to the filing it came from. It is classified by the SEC under Pharmaceutical Preparations.

Income

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC income by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Revenue$268.09M$167.13M$131.31M$196.24M$241.54M$163.56M$120.28M$251.45M$141.10M$108.97M
Cost of revenueUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$6.34M$5.37M$5.57M
Gross profitUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$103.40M
Operating income$41.00M-$22.61M$11.94M$3.04M$103.85M$37.50M$807.08M$163.73M$68.08M$43.88M
Net income$124.45M-$4.03M$52.15M-$33.36M$57.14M-$2.98M$629.30M$143.32M$12.56M-$1.64M
Research & development$81.18M$21.42M$24.54M$36.08M$32.10M$40.50M$55.91M$27.86M$26.89M$21.22M
Weighted-average diluted sharesshares 20.29Mshares 18.29Mshares 17.76Mshares 16.87Mshares 17.25Mshares 16.82Mshares 19.76Mshares 24.07Mshares 23.48Mshares 20.83M
Pretax income$158.96M$2.52M$63.66M$36.01M$72.20M$1.29M$796.64M$173.33M$57.23M$7.96M
Income tax expense$34.51M$6.55M$9.84M$41.23M-$4.15M-$5.31M$167.34M$30.01M$44.68M$10.33M
Diluted EPS$6.13$-0.22$2.94$-1.98$3.31$-0.18$31.85$5.96$0.53$-0.08
Selling, general & administrativeUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
General & administrative$92.45M$78.65M$52.79M$70.06M$46.79M$60.01M$41.88M$37.73M$28.65M$27.65M
Selling & marketingUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable

Balance

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC balance by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Cash & equivalents$174.93M$72.31M$22.95M$45.01M$19.52M$47.62M$71.54M$117.16M$20.62M$18.75M
Total assets$1.56B$941.77M$787.22M$762.67M$1.30B$1.36B$1.49B$1.26B$671.02M$601.58M
Current assets$832.27M$331.56M$237.43M$263.60M$464.75M$500.56M$1.12B$870.54M$237.02M$163.05M
Total liabilities$543.42M$111.34M$86.30M$165.18M$476.43M$652.76M$727.68M$699.89M$252.37M$230.73M
Current liabilities$37.45M$37.11M$16.78M$98.81M$41.66M$100.11M$17.00M$82.25M$238.87M$227.13M
Total equity incl. NCI$1.02B$830.44M$700.91M$597.48M$821.16M$709.52M$767.23M$560.91M$399.79M$341.29M
Temporary (mezzanine) equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Inventory$9.13M$14.11M$23.97M$13.29M$27.33M$26.49M$7.30M$7.12M$4.37M$1.92M
Accounts receivable$59.60M$38.38M$32.92M$30.42M$85.45M$56.85M$30.39M$55.85M$25.60M$14.70M
Goodwill$101.54M$105.25M$103.37M$0$105.67M$189.66M$95.23M$86.65M$85.96M$72.21M
Long-term debtUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Accounts payable$3.24M$5.23M$2.43M$5.31M$8.40M$3.78M$2.42M$4.18M$2.26M$2.73M

Cash flow

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC cash flow by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Operating cash flow$49.36M$97.05M$49.58M$137.85M$78.80M$54.59M-$29.34M$194.06M$88.57M$60.73M
Capital expenditures$452.00K$1.82M$3.52M$17.92M$8.76M$4.46M$2.55M$887.00K$2.16M$1.85M
Investing cash flow-$377.32M-$143.66M-$11.68M$163.62M$30.52M$231.65M$466.92M-$423.27M-$79.18M-$134.42M
Financing cash flow$428.22M$97.14M-$59.95M-$275.99M-$137.76M-$310.54M-$485.17M$328.58M-$7.52M-$4.99M
Net change in cash$102.62M$49.35M-$22.05M$25.48MUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable$1.87M-$78.68M
Stock-based compensation$46.85M$41.09M$25.74M$60.28M$38.78M$30.73M$24.52M$20.85M$24.92M$18.89M
Common dividends paidUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Common share repurchases$15.00M$0$0$0$0$78.00M$453.05M$122.87M$1.97M$3.90M
Depreciation & amortization$33.78M$35.24M$36.52M$51.53M$51.07M$25.69M$18.36M$12.78M$10.96M$11.29M

Derived

LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC derived by fiscal year, in US dollars, normalized from SEC filings.
Metric2025-12-312024-12-312023-12-312022-12-312021-12-312020-12-312019-12-312018-12-312017-12-312016-12-31
Free cash flow$48.91M$95.23M$46.06M$119.93M$70.04M$50.13M-$31.89M$193.17M$86.41M$58.88M
Gross marginUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable94.9%
Operating margin15.3%-13.5%9.1%1.5%43.0%22.9%671.0%65.1%48.2%40.3%
FCF margin18.2%57.0%35.1%61.1%29.0%30.6%-26.5%76.8%61.2%54.0%
SBC / revenue17.5%24.6%19.6%30.7%16.1%18.8%20.4%8.3%17.7%17.3%
Current ratio22.23x8.93x14.15x2.67x11.15x5.00x66.09x10.58x0.99x0.72x
Revenue YoY growth60.4%27.3%-33.1%-18.8%47.7%36.0%-52.2%78.2%29.5%Unavailable
Net margin46.4%-2.4%39.7%-17.0%23.7%-1.8%523.2%57.0%8.9%-1.5%
R&D / revenue30.3%12.8%18.7%18.4%13.3%24.8%46.5%11.1%19.1%19.5%
CapEx / revenue0.2%1.1%2.7%9.1%3.6%2.7%2.1%0.4%1.5%1.7%
Long-term debt / equityUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailableUnavailable
Effective tax rate21.7%260.1%15.5%114.5%-5.7%-410.7%21.0%17.3%78.1%129.7%

Amounts are abbreviated; the exact reported value is carried in each cell. — means unavailable, not zero. Open LGND in the interactive workspace to inspect any figure back to its filing.

Source filings

10-Q · Filed 2026-10-30View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-08-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2026-05-08View SEC filing
10-K · Filed 2026-02-27View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-11-07View SEC filing
10-Q · Filed 2025-08-08View SEC filing

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Reconciliation checks needing review

4 periods on this page do not reconcile under this site’s normalization. Read that as a limitation here before an observation about the company: the figures are the filer’s own, the filings linked above are authoritative, and a difference usually means the concepts this site selected do not match how this filer presents its statements. Nothing is adjusted to make a check pass.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2018-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

gross profit bridgeinconsistent2017-12-31

Withheld: gross profit could not be reconciled with the rest of this filer’s statement.

balance equationreview2017-12-31

Difference 18859000 exceeds tolerance 1000000. Presentation or filing-vintage differences need review.

balance equationreview2016-12-31

Difference 29563000 exceeds tolerance 1000000. Presentation or filing-vintage differences need review.