Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc
LGND- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Industry
- Pharmaceutical Preparations
- SEC CIK
- 0000886163
In the last 90 days, Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc insiders filed 0 open-market purchases and 6 sales; 416 institutions reported holding it in 13F filings for Q2 2026, worth $7.15B in total; no superinvestor holds it.
13F holders, Q1 2026
Institutional positions in Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc as of Mar 31, 2026. Investment managers with $100 million or more in US stocks report their long positions on Form 13F within 45 days after each quarter ends. How 13F works
- Institutional holders
- 359
- +15 vs. Q4 2025
- Shares held
- 20.8M
- +2.33M (+12.6%) vs. Q4 2025
- Total value
- $4.15B
- +$659.8M (+18.9%) vs. Q4 2025
- New holders
- 58
- 135 more added
- Sold out
- 43
- 114 more reduced
7 institutions that held it in Q4 2025 haven't filed for Q1 2026 yet. Not filing isn't selling, so they aren't counted as sold out or in the changes above.
Compare with Q4 2025: new holders, sold out and not filed yet
Holders and value by quarter
Institutions reporting LGND on Form 13F each quarter since Q1 2021, and the total value they reported. Values are as of each quarter end, so they also move with the share price.
| Quarter | Holders | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Q2 2026 | 416 | $7.15B |
| Q1 2026 | 359 | $4.15B |
| Q4 2025 | 351 | $3.89B |
| Q3 2025 | 314 | $3.63B |
| Q2 2025 | 271 | $2.18B |
| Q1 2025 | 262 | $1.97B |
| Q4 2024 | 259 | $1.96B |
| Q3 2024 | 243 | $1.81B |
| Q2 2024 | 235 | $1.45B |
| Q1 2024 | 222 | $1.21B |
| Q4 2023 | 211 | $1.15B |
| Q3 2023 | 197 | $946.5M |
| Q2 2023 | 204 | $1.12B |
| Q1 2023 | 213 | $1.10B |
| Q4 2022 | 198 | $983.5M |
| Q3 2022 | 205 | $1.28B |
| Q2 2022 | 198 | $1.33B |
| Q1 2022 | 207 | $1.76B |
| Q4 2021 | 221 | $2.51B |
| Q3 2021 | 208 | $2.29B |
| Q2 2021 | 212 | $2.09B |
| Q1 2021 | 228 | $2.35B |
Institutions, Q1 2026
Shares, value and share of portfolio for each institution holding Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc; share changes are against Q4 2025.
| Institution | Shares | Value | % of portfolio | Change in shares | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlackRock, Inc. | 2,961,923 | $591.3M | 0.01% | +21,692+0.7% | Added |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC | 1,100,267 | $219.7M | 0.01% | +1,100,267 | New |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 1,009,891 | $201.6M | 0.10% | +14,491+1.5% | Added |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 848,089 | $169.3M | 0.00% | +848,089 | New |
| Invesco Ltd. | 823,604 | $164.4M | 0.02% | +307,140+59.5% | Added |
| State Street Corp | 778,856 | $155.5M | 0.01% | +27,651+3.7% | Added |
| FMR LLC | 596,127 | $119.0M | 0.01% | +16,972+2.9% | Added |
| Nomura Asset Management International Inc. | 573,312 | $114.5M | 0.20% | −70,781−11.0% | Reduced |
| Franklin Resources Inc | 573,177 | $114.4M | 0.03% | +77,017+15.5% | Added |
| Chicago Capital, LLC | 561,675 | $112.1M | 3.02% | +2520.0% | Added |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 558,934 | $111.6M | 0.01% | +65,345+13.2% | Added |
| Congress Asset Management Co | 504,637 | $100.8M | 0.72% | +24,574+5.1% | Added |
| Stephens Investment Management Group LLC | 494,670 | $98.8M | 1.35% | −6,370−1.3% | Reduced |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 425,230 | $84.9M | 0.02% | −7,762−1.8% | Reduced |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co | 411,543 | $82.2M | 0.03% | −95,476−18.8% | Reduced |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc | 381,111 | $76.1M | 0.01% | −47,893−11.2% | Reduced |
| Loomis Sayles & Co L P | 353,209 | $70.5M | 0.09% | −29,468−7.7% | Reduced |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 306,111 | $61.1M | 0.02% | −1,760−0.6% | Reduced |
| Victory Capital Management Inc | 303,224 | $60.5M | 0.04% | +46,814+18.3% | Added |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | 283,567 | $56.6M | 3.15% | +3,940+1.4% | Added |
| Ranger Investment Management, L.P. | 267,943 | $53.5M | 3.87% | −2,040−0.8% | Reduced |
| Northern Trust Corp | 254,158 | $50.7M | 0.01% | +3,518+1.4% | Added |
| UBS Asset Management Americas Inc | 212,888 | $42.5M | 0.01% | −150,696−41.4% | Reduced |
| Ashford Capital Management Inc | 207,565 | $41.4M | 5.12% | −6,213−2.9% | Reduced |
| Private Capital Management, LLC | 201,381 | $40.2M | 4.09% | −7,510−3.6% | Reduced |
| Villere St Denis J & Co LLC | 188,874 | $37.7M | 4.16% | −13,578−6.7% | Reduced |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc | 182,887 | $36.5M | 0.01% | −1,397−0.8% | Reduced |
| Morgan Stanley | 167,229 | $33.4M | 0.00% | −26,173−13.5% | Reduced |
| Bank of America Corp | 157,865 | $31.5M | 0.00% | +37,696+31.4% | Added |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 152,444 | $30.4M | 0.21% | −12,764−7.7% | Reduced |
| GW&K Investment Management, LLC | 149,501 | $29.8M | 0.26% | +32,069+27.3% | Added |
| Fiera Capital Corp | 135,312 | $27.0M | 0.09% | +4,076+3.1% | Added |
| Fisher Asset Management, LLC | 127,994 | $25.6M | 0.01% | −2,864−2.2% | Reduced |
| Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co | 127,899 | $25.5M | 0.01% | +127,899 | New |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 121,151 | $24.2M | 0.03% | −17,313−12.5% | Reduced |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 119,839 | $23.9M | 0.03% | +12,309+11.4% | Added |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 119,403 | $23.8M | 0.00% | −2,862−2.3% | Reduced |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | 118,169 | $23.6M | 0.17% | −4,157−3.4% | Reduced |
| Nomura Holdings Inc | 114,355 | $22.8M | 0.19% | −2,062−1.8% | Reduced |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 111,543 | $22.3M | 0.00% | +2,747+2.5% | Added |
| Bessemer Group Inc | 107,859 | $21.5M | 0.03% | +84,349+358.8% | Added |
| UBS Group AG | 104,580 | $20.9M | 0.00% | −38,487−26.9% | Reduced |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 97,660 | $19.5M | 0.00% | −10,723−9.9% | Reduced |
| Next Century Growth Investors LLC | 95,876 | $19.1M | 1.39% | +95,876 | New |
| Principal Financial Group Inc | 95,716 | $19.1M | 0.01% | +1,886+2.0% | Added |
| Penn Capital Management Co Inc | 95,456 | $19.1M | 1.48% | −3,392−3.4% | Reduced |
| Clark Capital Management Group, Inc. | 90,206 | $18.0M | 0.11% | +10,428+13.1% | Added |
| Standard Life Aberdeen plc | 90,044 | $18.0M | 0.03% | −29,265−24.5% | Reduced |
| Bank of Montreal | 86,183 | $17.2M | 0.01% | −39,880−31.6% | Reduced |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 84,901 | $17.0M | 0.00% | −47,735−36.0% | Reduced |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co | 86,274 | $16.6M | 0.00% | +29,684+52.5% | Added |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 80,401 | $16.1M | 0.01% | +11,181+16.2% | Added |
| D. E. Shaw & Co., Inc. | 78,428 | $15.7M | 0.01% | +41,877+114.6% | Added |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc | 77,273 | $15.4M | 0.00% | −20,991−21.4% | Reduced |
| SEI Investments Co | 75,188 | $15.0M | 0.01% | +28,820+62.2% | Added |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | 70,378 | $14.1M | 0.04% | +2,264+3.3% | Added |
| Dana Investment Advisors, Inc. | 69,234 | $13.8M | 0.41% | −162−0.2% | Reduced |
| Prudential Financial Inc | 64,133 | $12.8M | 0.02% | +18,497+40.5% | Added |
| Kornitzer Capital Management Inc | 60,342 | $12.0M | 0.26% | 00.0% | Unchanged |
| Pictet Asset Management Holding SA | 60,737 | $11.7M | 0.01% | −3,649−5.7% | Reduced |
| Essex Investment Management Co LLC | 58,460 | $11.7M | 1.85% | −1,560−2.6% | Reduced |
| Advisor Group Holdings, Inc. | 58,150 | $11.6M | 0.02% | −1,255−2.1% | Reduced |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 56,800 | $11.3M | 0.01% | +64+0.1% | Added |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC | 54,155 | $10.8M | 0.66% | −3,771−6.5% | Reduced |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | 52,652 | $10.5M | 0.02% | −19,166−26.7% | Reduced |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 50,936 | $9.83M | 0.01% | −2,789−5.2% | Reduced |
| Castleark Management LLC | 48,696 | $9.72M | 0.32% | −18,040−27.0% | Reduced |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd | 47,659 | $9.52M | 0.01% | +32,266+209.6% | Added |
| Emerald Investment Advisers, LLC | 44,226 | $8.83M | 0.79% | +44,226 | New |
| WCM Investment Management, LLC | 44,658 | $8.60M | 0.02% | −963−2.1% | Reduced |
| Nuveen, LLC | 42,689 | $8.52M | 0.00% | +5,090+13.5% | Added |
| American Century Companies Inc | 40,495 | $8.08M | 0.00% | −390−1.0% | Reduced |
| Uniplan Investment Counsel, Inc. | 40,185 | $8.02M | 0.82% | −2,179−5.1% | Reduced |
| Swiss National Bank | 38,900 | $7.77M | 0.00% | +300+0.8% | Added |
| Lisanti Capital Growth, LLC | 38,612 | $7.71M | 1.94% | −5,130−11.7% | Reduced |
| BNP Paribas Arbitrage, SA | 34,915 | $6.97M | 0.00% | −42−0.1% | Reduced |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc | 34,576 | $6.90M | 0.00% | +6,841+24.7% | Added |
| Stifel Financial Corp | 33,017 | $6.59M | 0.01% | +14,295+76.4% | Added |
| Captrust Financial Advisors | 29,900 | $5.97M | 0.01% | +15,321+105.1% | Added |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 25,240 | $5.04M | 0.01% | +4,338+20.8% | Added |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 24,509 | $4.89M | 0.01% | −2,441−9.1% | Reduced |
| Granahan Investment Management Inc | 24,165 | $4.82M | 0.23% | −1,885−7.2% | Reduced |
| Isthmus Partners, LLC | 24,059 | $4.80M | 0.50% | −649−2.6% | Reduced |
| Price T Rowe Associates Inc | 23,901 | $4.77M | 0.00% | +3,909+19.6% | Added |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 23,784 | $4.75M | 0.01% | +4,987+26.5% | Added |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 24,295 | $4.59M | 0.00% | +124+0.5% | Added |
| Legato Capital Management LLC | 22,378 | $4.47M | 0.41% | −3,863−14.7% | Reduced |
| Citigroup Inc | 21,594 | $4.31M | 0.00% | +3,302+18.1% | Added |
| Calamos Advisors LLC | 20,860 | $4.16M | 0.02% | −185−0.9% | Reduced |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc | 20,529 | $4.10M | 0.02% | −106,225−83.8% | Reduced |
| Palisade Capital Management LLC | 20,525 | $4.10M | 0.14% | +20,525 | New |
| Moran Wealth Management, LLC | 19,306 | $3.85M | 0.12% | +19,306 | New |
| Woodstock Corp | 19,120 | $3.82M | 0.34% | −885−4.4% | Reduced |
| Caxton Associates LLP | 18,651 | $3.72M | 0.09% | +4,143+28.6% | Added |
| Raymond James Financial Inc | 18,258 | $3.65M | 0.00% | −498−2.7% | Reduced |
| Martingale Asset Management L P | 17,762 | $3.55M | 0.09% | +2,440+15.9% | Added |
| Vanguard Asset Management, Ltd | 17,432 | $3.48M | 0.00% | +17,432 | New |
| Linden Thomas Advisory Services, LLC | 16,669 | $3.33M | 0.32% | +94+0.6% | Added |
| Great West Life Assurance Co | 15,977 | $3.19M | 0.01% | −773−4.6% | Reduced |
| Moody Aldrich Partners LLC | 14,675 | $2.93M | 0.53% | −4,906−25.1% | Reduced |