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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc
NASDAQ:LGND

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc
NASDAQ:LGND
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Price: 71 USD 1.59%
Updated: Apr 25, 2024

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and acquisition of technologies that help pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop medicines. [ Read More ]

The intrinsic value of one LGND stock under the Base Case scenario is 73.02 USD. Compared to the current market price of 71 USD, Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc is Undervalued by 3%.

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Undervaluation 3%
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Balance Sheet Decomposition
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

Current Assets 237.4m
Cash & Short-Term Investments 170.3m
Receivables 39.3m
Other Current Assets 27.8m
Non-Current Assets 549.8m
Long-Term Investments 48.3m
PP&E 25.1m
Intangibles 470.3m
Other Non-Current Assets 6.1m
Current Liabilities 16.8m
Accounts Payable 2.4m
Accrued Liabilities 12.2m
Other Current Liabilities 2.1m
Non-Current Liabilities 69.5m
Other Non-Current Liabilities 69.5m
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Earnings Waterfall
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

Revenue
131.3m USD
Cost of Revenue
-10.5m USD
Gross Profit
120.8m USD
Operating Expenses
-111m USD
Operating Income
9.8m USD
Other Expenses
42.3m USD
Net Income
52.2m USD

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's profitability score is 53/100. The higher the profitability score, the more profitable the company is.

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's profitability score is 53/100. The higher the profitability score, the more profitable the company is.

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's solvency score is 93/100. The higher the solvency score, the more solvent the company is.

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's solvency score is 93/100. The higher the solvency score, the more solvent the company is.

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LGND Price Targets Summary
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

Wall Street analysts forecast LGND stock price to rise over the next 12 months.

According to Wall Street analysts, the average 1-year price target for LGND is 119.14 USD with a low forecast of 95.95 USD and a high forecast of 151.2 USD.

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95.95 USD
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119.14 USD
68% Upside
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151.2 USD
113% Upside
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LGND Price
Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

1M 1M
+3%
6M 6M
+41%
1Y 1Y
-7%
3Y 3Y
-27%
5Y 5Y
-11%
10Y 10Y
+69%
Annual Price Range
71
52w Low
49.57
52w High
89.2
Price Metrics
Average Annual Return -0.44%
Standard Deviation of Annual Returns 35.63%
Max Drawdown -65%
Shares Statistics
Market Capitalization 1.2B USD
Shares Outstanding 17 710 000
Percentage of Shares Shorted 5.54%

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Company Profile

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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

Country

United States of America

Industry

Biotechnology

Market Cap

1.2B USD

Dividend Yield

0%

Description

Ligand Pharmaceuticals, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company, which engages in the development and acquisition of technologies that help pharmaceutical companies to discover and develop medicines. The company is headquartered in San Diego, California and currently employs 154 full-time employees. The firm is focused on developing or acquiring technologies that help pharmaceutical companies discover and develop medicines. The company has partnerships and license agreements with approximately 140 pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies and 400 programs are in various stages of commercialization, development or research and are fully funded by its collaboration partners and licensees. Its technologies include OmniAb Technologies, Pelican Expression Technology Platform, Captisol Technology, HepDirect, LTP, BEPro Technology Platform, and SUREtechnology Platform. The OmniAb platform creates and screens diverse antibody pools and is designed to identify optimal antibodies. The Pelican Expression Technology is a scalable platform for recombinant protein production and is suited for complex, large-scale protein production. Captisol is a chemically modified cyclodextrin designed to optimize the stability of drugs.

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CALIFORNIA
San Diego
3911 Sorrento Valley Blvd Ste 110
+18585507500.0
https://www.ligand.com/

IPO

1992-11-18

Employees

154

Officers

CEO & Director
Mr. Todd C. Davis Ph.D.
President & COO
Mr. Matthew E. Korenberg
Chief Financial Officer
Mr. Octavio Espinoza
Chief Legal Officer & Secretary
Mr. Andrew T. Reardon J.D.
Senior Vice President of Investments & Business Development
Mr. Paul J. Hadden
Head of Investor Relations
Simon Latimer
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Director of Corporate Development
Mr. Todd Pettingill
Chief People Officer
Ms. Audrey Warfield-Graham
Senior Vice President of Biology & Scientific Affairs
Dr. Keith Marschke
Senior Vice President of Technical Operations & QA - Capitsol
Dr. Vincent D. Antle
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What is the Intrinsic Value of one LGND stock?

The intrinsic value of one LGND stock under the Base Case scenario is 73.02 USD.

Is LGND stock undervalued or overvalued?

Compared to the current market price of 71 USD, Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc is Undervalued by 3%.