Company: LGNZZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000886163-25-000063
Chunk: 69

Company: LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
Chunk 69
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. In Q3 2024, we recognized a full impairment of $3.0 million for our investment in Neuritek warrants.

Interest income consists primarily of interest earned on our short-term investments. The increase over the prior year period was due to the increase in average investment balances in Q3 2025 compared to Q3 2024.

In Q3 2025, interest expense consists primarily of the 0.75% coupon cash interest expense in addition to the non-cash accretion of discount (including the amortization of debt issuance costs) on our 0.75% Convertible Senior Notes due 2030 (the “Notes”), which were issued in August 2025. In Q3 2024, interest expense consists primarily of interest accrued related to a royalty and milestone payments purchase agreement entered into by Novan, Inc. in 2019, assumed by Ligand as part of the Novan acquisition in September 2023, and deconsolidated on July 1, 2025.

Other non-operating expense, net, primarily consists of mark-to-market adjustments on derivatives (other than the Viking Share Collar and the partner program derivatives) and CVRs. Other non-operating expense, net, in Q3 2025 decreased by $9.0 million as compared to Q3 2024, primarily due to the fair value changes to derivative assets and the loss from equity method investment in Primrose Bio in Q3 2024.

YTD 2025 vs. YTD 2024

The fluctuation in the gain (loss) from short-term investments is primarily driven by the changes in the fair value of our ownership in Viking common stock and other equity security investments. The loss from short-term investments was $3.6 million in YTD 2025 as compared to the gain from short-term investments of $98.9 million in YTD 2024. In YTD 2025, we recorded an unrealized loss on Viking common stock of $14.0 million as compared to an unrealized gain of $32.1 million in YTD 2024. In YTD 2025, we recorded a $12.3 million unrealized gain on Palvella common stock that we acquired in December 2024. In YTD 2024, we recorded a gain of $7.3 million on the fair value adjustment to the Viking Share Collar. In addition, we sold 0.7 million shares of