Company: LGNZZ
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form Type: 10-Q
Source: 0000886163-25-000063
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Company: LIGAND PHARMACEUTICALS INC
Filing Date: 2025-11-07
Form: 10-Q
Item: Item 1
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 providing financing, licensing our technologies or both. Our business model seeks to generate value for stockholders by creating a diversified portfolio of biopharmaceutical product revenue streams that are supported by an efficient and low corporate cost structure. Our goal is to offer investors an opportunity to participate in the promise of the biotech industry in a profitable and diversified manner. Our business model focuses on funding programs in mid- to late-stage drug development in return for economic rights, purchasing royalty rights in development stage or commercial biopharmaceutical products and licensing our technology to help partners discover and develop medicines. We partner with other pharmaceutical companies to leverage what they do best (late-stage development, regulatory management and commercialization) in order to generate our revenue. We operate two infrastructure-light royalty-generating IP platform technologies. Our Captisol platform technology is a chemically modified cyclodextrin with a structure designed to optimize the solubility and stability of drugs. Our NITRICIL platform technology facilitates “tunable” dosing, permitting an adjustable drug release profile to allow proprietary formulations that target a broad range of indications. We have established multiple alliances, licenses and other business relationships with the world’s leading biopharmaceutical companies including Amgen, Merck, Pfizer, Jazz, Gilead Sciences and Baxter.

Our revenue is generated primarily from royalties on sales of products commercialized by our partners, Captisol material sales, and contract revenue for license fees, regulatory and sales based milestone payments. Other operating income is primarily related to milestone income received for financial royalty assets that have been fully amortized or where there is no underlying asset recognized on the condensed consolidated balance sheets. Also, we selectively pursue acquisitions and drug development funding opportunities that address high unmet clinical needs to bring in new assets, pipelines, and technologies to aid in generating additional potential new incremental revenue streams.

Business Updates 

2030 Convertible Senior Notes Offering

On August 14, 2025, we completed the offering of 0.75% convertible senior notes due 2030. The aggregate principal amount of the notes sold was $460 million, which includes the full exercise of the option by the initial purchasers. 

The net proceeds from the offering were approximately $445 million after fees and expenses. Of that amount, we used approximately $46 million of the proceeds to enter into a call spread overlay, comprised of convertible note hedge and warrant transactions and approximately $15 million of the proceeds to repurchase approximately 100,000 shares of Ligand common stock at a price of approximately $147 per share. Ligand