Ligand PharmaceuticalsLGND
13F holders, Q1 2026 (March 31)359holders +9
50new positions
43sold out
5famous investors
$199.55avg. 13F price*
At the end of Q1 2026, 359 institutions reported holding Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND) in their 13F filings, up 9 from Q4 2025. 50 opened new positions and 43 sold out. The largest holders were BlackRock, Inc. ($591.3M), Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC ($219.7M) and Janus Henderson Group PLC ($201.6M). 5 famous investors held it, including David E. Shaw (0.0% of D. E. Shaw & Co.'s portfolio), Ken Fisher (0.0% of Fisher Asset Management's portfolio) and Joel Greenblatt (0.0% of Gotham Asset Management's portfolio).
- Company
- Ligand Pharmaceuticals
- CUSIP
- 53220K504
- Latest filing quarter
- Q2 2026
History
Number of 13F holders
Total Exit/New Position Q4 2025 → Q1 2026
| Institutions | Total Value | |
|---|---|---|
| New Positions | 50 | $45.4M |
| Exits | 43 | $22.8M |
All 13F filers, Q4 2025 → Q1 2026: 1,328,416 shares bought and 1,147,307 shares sold, net +181,109 shares. Counts holders who added, trimmed, opened or closed a position; split-adjusted.
Ownership 359 holders
| BlackRock, Inc. | 0.01% | Add +0.7% | 2,961,923 | $591.3M |
| Vanguard Portfolio Management LLC | 0.01% | — | 1,100,267 | $219.7M |
| Janus Henderson Group PLC | 0.10% | Add +1.5% | 1,009,891 | $201.6M |
| Vanguard Capital Management LLC | 0.00% | — | 848,089 | $169.3M |
| Invesco Ltd. | 0.02% | Add +59.5% | 823,604 | $164.4M |
| State Street Corp. | 0.01% | Add +3.7% | 778,856 | $155.5M |
| FMR LLC | 0.01% | Add +2.9% | 596,127 | $119.0M |
| Nomura Asset Management International Inc. | 0.20% | Reduce -11.0% | 573,312 | $114.5M |
| Franklin Resources Inc. | 0.03% | Add +15.5% | 573,177 | $114.4M |
| Chicago Capital, LLC | 3.02% | Add +0.0% | 561,675 | $112.1M |
| Geode Capital Management, LLC | 0.01% | Add +13.2% | 558,934 | $111.6M |
| Congress Asset Management Co. | 0.72% | Add +5.1% | 504,637 | $100.8M |
| Stephens Investment Management Group LLC | 1.35% | Reduce -1.3% | 494,670 | $98.8M |
| Dimensional Fund Advisors LP | 0.02% | Reduce -1.8% | 425,230 | $84.9M |
| Massachusetts Financial Services Co. | 0.03% | Reduce -18.8% | 411,543 | $82.2M |
| Goldman Sachs Group Inc. | 0.01% | Reduce -11.2% | 381,111 | $76.1M |
| Loomis Sayles & Co. L P | 0.09% | Reduce -7.7% | 353,209 | $70.5M |
| Deutsche Bank AG | 0.02% | Reduce -0.6% | 306,111 | $61.1M |
| Victory Capital Management Inc. | 0.04% | Add +18.3% | 303,224 | $60.5M |
| Rice Hall James & Associates, LLC | 3.15% | Add +1.4% | 283,567 | $56.6M |
| Ranger Investment Management, L.P. | 3.87% | Reduce -0.8% | 267,943 | $53.5M |
| Northern Trust Corp. | 0.01% | Add +1.4% | 254,158 | $50.7M |
| UBS AM, a distinct business unit of UBS ASSET MANAGEMENT AMERICAS LLC | 0.01% | Reduce -41.5% | 212,888 | $42.5M |
| Ashford Capital Management Inc. | 5.12% | Reduce -2.9% | 207,565 | $41.4M |
| Private Capital Management, LLC | 4.11% | Reduce -3.6% | 201,381 | $40.2M |
| Villere St Denis J & Co. LLC | 4.26% | Reduce -6.7% | 188,874 | $37.7M |
| Charles Schwab Investment Management Inc. | 0.01% | Reduce -0.8% | 182,887 | $36.5M |
| Morgan Stanley | 0.00% | Reduce -13.5% | 167,229 | $33.4M |
| Bank of America Corp. | 0.00% | Add +31.4% | 157,865 | $31.5M |
| Impax Asset Management Group plc | 0.21% | Reduce -7.7% | 152,444 | $30.4M |
| GW&K Investment Management, LLC | 0.26% | Add +27.3% | 149,501 | $29.8M |
| Fiera Capital Corp | 0.09% | Add +3.1% | 135,312 | $27.0M |
| Fisher Asset Management | 0.01% | Reduce -2.2% | 127,994 | $25.6M |
| Vanguard Fiduciary Trust Co. | 0.01% | — | 127,899 | $25.5M |
| Russell Investments Group, Ltd. | 0.03% | Reduce -12.5% | 121,151 | $24.2M |
| New York State Common Retirement Fund | 0.03% | Add +11.4% | 119,839 | $23.9M |
| Bank of New York Mellon Corp | 0.00% | Reduce -2.3% | 119,403 | $23.8M |
| Driehaus Capital Management LLC | 0.17% | Reduce -3.4% | 118,169 | $23.6M |
| Nomura Holdings Inc. | 0.19% | Reduce -1.8% | 114,355 | $22.8M |
| Royal Bank of Canada | 0.00% | Add +2.5% | 111,543 | $22.3M |
| Bessemer Group Inc. | 0.03% | Add +358.8% | 107,859 | $21.5M |
| UBS Group AG | 0.00% | Reduce -26.9% | 104,580 | $20.9M |
| Legal & General Group Plc | 0.00% | Reduce -9.9% | 97,660 | $19.5M |
| Next Century Growth Investors LLC | 1.39% | New | 95,876 | $19.1M |
| Principal Financial Group Inc. | 0.01% | Add +2.0% | 95,716 | $19.1M |
| Penn Capital Management Company, LLC | 1.48% | Reduce -3.4% | 95,456 | $19.1M |
| Clark Capital Management Group, Inc. | 0.11% | Add +13.1% | 90,206 | $18.0M |
| Aberdeen Group plc | 0.03% | Reduce -24.5% | 90,044 | $18.0M |
| Bank of Montreal | 0.01% | Reduce -31.6% | 86,183 | $17.2M |
| Wells Fargo & Company | 0.00% | Reduce -36.0% | 84,901 | $17.0M |
| JPMorgan Chase & Co. | 0.00% | Add +52.5% | 86,274 | $16.6M |
| First Trust Advisors LP | 0.01% | Add +16.1% | 80,401 | $16.1M |
| D. E. Shaw & Co. | 0.01% | Add +114.6% | 78,428 | $15.7M |
| Ameriprise Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -21.4% | 77,273 | $15.4M |
| Sei Investments Co. | 0.01% | Add +62.1% | 75,188 | $15.0M |
| Public Sector Pension Investment Board | 0.04% | Add +3.3% | 70,378 | $14.1M |
| Dana Investment Advisors, Inc. | 0.41% | Reduce -0.2% | 69,234 | $13.8M |
| Prudential Financial Inc. | 0.02% | Add +40.5% | 64,133 | $12.8M |
| Kornitzer Capital Management Inc. | 0.26% | No change | 60,342 | $12.0M |
| Pictet Asset Management Holding SA | 0.01% | Reduce -5.7% | 60,737 | $11.7M |
| Essex Investment Management Co. LLC | 1.85% | Reduce -2.6% | 58,460 | $11.7M |
| Osaic Holdings, Inc. | 0.02% | Reduce -2.1% | 58,150 | $11.6M |
| Rhumbline Advisers | 0.01% | Add +0.1% | 56,800 | $11.3M |
| Granite Investment Partners, LLC | 0.66% | Reduce -6.5% | 54,155 | $10.8M |
| Allspring Global Investments Holdings, LLC | 0.02% | Reduce -26.7% | 52,652 | $10.5M |
| Nordea Investment Management AB | 0.01% | Reduce -5.2% | 50,936 | $9.8M |
| Castleark Management LLC | 0.32% | Reduce -27.0% | 48,696 | $9.7M |
| Qube Research & Technologies Ltd | 0.01% | Add +209.6% | 47,659 | $9.5M |
| Emerald Investment Advisers, LLC | 0.79% | — | 44,226 | $8.8M |
| WCM Investment Management, LLC | 0.02% | Reduce -2.1% | 44,658 | $8.6M |
| Nuveen, LLC | 0.00% | Add +13.5% | 42,689 | $8.5M |
| American Century Companies Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -0.9% | 40,495 | $8.1M |
| Uniplan Investment Counsel, Inc. | 0.85% | Reduce -5.1% | 40,185 | $8.0M |
| Swiss National Bank | 0.00% | Add +0.8% | 38,900 | $7.8M |
| Lisanti Capital Growth, LLC | 1.94% | Reduce -11.7% | 38,612 | $7.7M |
| BNP Paribas Financial Markets | 0.00% | Reduce -0.1% | 34,915 | $7.0M |
| Envestnet Asset Management Inc. | 0.00% | Add +24.7% | 34,576 | $6.9M |
| Stifel Financial Corp. | 0.01% | Add +76.3% | 33,017 | $6.6M |
| Captrust Financial Advisors | 0.01% | Add +105.1% | 29,900 | $6.0M |
| Universal- Beteiligungs- und Servicegesellschaft mbH | 0.01% | Add +20.8% | 25,240 | $5.0M |
| New York State Teachers Retirement System | 0.01% | Reduce -9.1% | 24,509 | $4.9M |
| Granahan Investment Management, LLC | 0.23% | Reduce -7.2% | 24,165 | $4.8M |
| Isthmus Partners, LLC | 0.50% | Reduce -2.6% | 24,059 | $4.8M |
| T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. | 0.00% | Add +19.6% | 23,901 | $4.8M |
| California State Teachers Retirement System | 0.01% | Add +26.5% | 23,784 | $4.7M |
| Alliancebernstein L.P. | 0.00% | Add +0.5% | 24,295 | $4.6M |
| Legato Capital Management LLC | 0.41% | Reduce -14.7% | 22,378 | $4.5M |
| Citigroup Inc. | 0.00% | Add +18.1% | 21,594 | $4.3M |
| Calamos Advisors LLC | 0.02% | Reduce -0.9% | 20,860 | $4.2M |
| Jacobs Levy Equity Management, Inc. | 0.02% | Reduce -83.8% | 20,529 | $4.1M |
| Palisade Capital Management, LP | 0.15% | New | 20,525 | $4.1M |
| Moran Wealth Management, LLC | 0.12% | New | 19,306 | $3.9M |
| Woodstock Corp. | 0.34% | Reduce -4.4% | 19,120 | $3.8M |
| Caxton Associates LLP | 0.09% | Add +28.6% | 18,651 | $3.7M |
| Raymond James Financial Inc. | 0.00% | Reduce -2.7% | 18,258 | $3.6M |
| Martingale Asset Management L P | 0.09% | Add +15.9% | 17,762 | $3.5M |
| VANGUARD ASSET MANAGEMENT, Ltd | 0.00% | — | 17,432 | $3.5M |
| Linden Thomas Advisory Services, LLC | 0.32% | Add +0.6% | 16,669 | $3.3M |
| CANADA LIFE ASSURANCE Co | 0.01% | Reduce -4.6% | 15,977 | $3.2M |
| Moody Aldrich Partners LLC | 0.53% | Reduce -25.1% | 14,675 | $2.9M |
"% of holder's portfolio" is LGND's weight in each manager's 13F, not the share of Ligand Pharmaceuticals the manager owns.