Ligand Pharmaceuticals (LGND) Institutional Ownership $217.75 +9.97 (+4.80%) Closing price 04:00 PM EasternExtended Trading$218.16 +0.41 (+0.19%) As of 04:53 PM Eastern Extended trading is trading that happens on electronic markets outside of regular trading hours. This is a fair market value extended hours price provided by Massive. Learn more. Add Compare Share Share Ownership Stock AnalysisAnalyst ForecastsChartCompetitorsEarningsFDA EventsFinancialsHeadlinesInsider TradesOptions ChainOwnershipSEC FilingsShort InterestTrendsBuy This Stock Institutional Ownership Changes (13F Filings) for Ligand Pharmaceuticals (NASDAQ:LGND)CurrentInstitutional OwnershipPercentage91.28%Number ofInstitutional Buyers(last 12 months)218TotalInstitutional Inflows(last 12 months)$3.41BNumber ofInstitutional Sellers(last 12 months)137TotalInstitutional Outflows(last 12 months)$376.69M Get LGND Insider Trade Alerts Want to know when executives and insiders are buying or selling Ligand Pharmaceuticals stock? Sign up for InsiderTrades.com's daily newsletter to get the latest insider transactions delivered to your inbox daily. 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Skip Chart & View Institutional Buying and Selling Data LGND Institutional Buying and Selling by Quarter Ligand Pharmaceuticals Major Shareholders & Ownership History ExportReporting DateMajor Shareholder NameShares HeldMarket Value% of PortfolioQuarterly Change in SharesOwnership in CompanyDetails5/19/2026Cim Investment Management Inc.1,484$296K0.1%+3.4%0.007% 5/19/2026 Bank of America Corp DE157,865$31.52M0.0%+31.4%0.788% 5/19/2026 Edgestream Partners L.P.11,584$2.31M0.1%-49.4%0.058% 5/19/2026 Janus Henderson Group PLC1,009,891$201.62M0.1%+1.5%5.039% 5/18/2026 Amundi3,555$710K0.0%+17.2%0.018% 5/18/2026 California State Teachers Retirement System23,784$4.75M0.0%+26.5%0.119% 5/18/2026 Royal Bank of Canada111,543$22.27M0.0%+2.5%0.557% 5/18/2026 Ranger Investment Management L.P.267,943$53.50M3.9%-0.8%1.337% 5/18/2026 Empowered Funds LLC2,540$507K0.0%N/A0.013% 5/16/2026 Ashford Capital Management Inc.207,565$41.44M5.1%-2.9%1.036% Get the Latest News and Ratings for LGND and Related StocksEnter your email address below to receive the latest news and analysts' ratings for Ligand Pharmaceuticals and its competitors with MarketBeat's FREE daily newsletter. 5/16/2026 The Manufacturers Life Insurance Company 8,909$1.78M0.0%-2.2%0.044% 5/16/2026 Quantinno Capital Management LP6,227$1.24M0.0%+107.6%0.031% 5/16/2026 Castleark Management LLC48,696$9.72M0.3%-27.0%0.243% 5/15/2026 Rice Hall James & Associates LLC283,567$56.61M3.1%+1.4%1.415% 5/15/2026 Granahan Investment Management LLC24,165$4.83M0.2%-7.2%0.121% 5/14/2026 Public Employees Retirement System of Ohio2,685$536K0.0%-67.6%0.013% 5/14/2026 Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership14,564$2.91M0.0%-27.3%0.073% 5/14/2026 Caxton Associates LLP18,651$3.72M0.1%+28.6%0.093% 5/14/2026 Gibbs Wealth Management5,563$1.11M0.1%+66.2%0.028% 5/14/2026 Sei Investments Co.75,188$15.01M0.0%+62.2%0.375% 5/14/2026 Group One Trading LLC1,669$333K0.0%-43.5%0.008% 5/14/2026 Lido Advisors LLC2,757$550K0.0%+23.5%0.014% 5/14/2026 Walleye Capital LLC10,333$2.06M0.0%N/A0.052% 5/13/2026 Cetera Investment Advisers4,259$850K0.0%+27.7%0.021% 5/13/2026 First Trust Advisors LP80,401$16.05M0.0%+16.2%0.401% 5/8/2026 PNC Financial Services Group Inc.2,342$468K0.0%+4.6%0.012% 5/8/2026 Summit Global Investments1,937$387K0.0%-19.9%0.010% 5/7/2026 WCM Investment Management LLC44,658$8.60M0.0%-2.1%0.223% 5/7/2026 Dimensional Fund Advisors LP425,230$84.89M0.0%-1.8%2.122% 5/7/2026 Swiss National Bank38,900$7.77M0.0%+0.8%0.194% 5/6/2026 Future Fund LLC13,840$2.76M1.0%+49.1%0.069% 5/6/2026 Assetmark Inc.6,570$1.31M0.0%+6.1%0.033% 5/6/2026 Bessemer Group Inc.107,859$21.54M0.0%+358.8%0.538% 5/6/2026 Allspring Global Investments Holdings LLC52,652$10.51M0.0%-26.7%0.263% 5/5/2026 Bank of New York Mellon Corp119,403$23.84M0.0%-2.3%0.596% 5/5/2026 Illinois Municipal Retirement Fund8,961$1.79M0.0%-23.5%0.045% 5/5/2026 Sigma Planning Corp4,500$898K0.0%+50.0%0.022% 5/5/2026 Hillsdale Investment Management Inc.1,540$307K0.0%+3,750.0%0.008% 5/4/2026 Calamos Advisors LLC20,860$4.17M0.0%-0.9%0.104% 5/4/2026 Principal Financial Group Inc.95,716$19.11M0.0%+2.0%0.478% Read this warning immediately (Ad)Porter Stansberry, founder of one of the world's largest financial research firms, says he's breaking the biggest story of his 26-year career. 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LLC188,874$37.71M4.2%-6.7%0.942% 4/30/2026 Hsbc Holdings PLC3,455$690K0.0%N/A0.017% 4/30/2026 Granite Investment Partners LLC54,155$10.81M0.7%-6.5%0.270% 4/30/2026 Isthmus Partners LLC24,059$4.80M0.5%-2.6%0.120% 4/28/2026 Abel Hall LLC1,112$222K0.0%N/A0.006% 4/28/2026 Stephens Investment Management Group LLC494,670$98.76M1.4%-1.3%2.469% 4/27/2026 Moran Wealth Management LLC19,306$3.85M0.1%N/A0.096% 4/27/2026 New York State Teachers Retirement System24,509$4.89M0.0%-9.1%0.122% 4/25/2026 Strs Ohio5,800$1.16M0.0%-4.9%0.029% 4/25/2026 Keybank National Association OH1,874$374K0.0%+26.9%0.009% 4/23/2026 Inspire Investing LLC909$181K0.0%N/A0.005% 4/22/2026 1492 Capital Management LLC1,958$391K0.1%+4.4%0.010% 4/22/2026 Pictet Asset Management Holding SA60,737$11.72M0.0%-5.7%0.305% 4/21/2026 Louisiana State Employees Retirement System8,700$1.74M0.0%N/A0.044% 4/20/2026 BTC Capital Management Inc.2,390$477K0.0%+11.5%0.012% 4/20/2026 RFG Advisory LLC2,544$508K0.0%N/A0.013% 4/16/2026 SG Americas Securities LLC1,416$283K0.0%-86.9%0.007% 4/16/2026 CWC Advisors LLC.3,389$677K0.3%-4.0%0.017% 3/9/2026 Corient Private Wealth LLC3,561$673K0.0%+26.3%0.018% 2/26/2026 Alpine Global Management LLC1,500$284K0.0%N/A0.008% 2/19/2026 Invesco Ltd.516,464$97.65M0.0%+36.5%2.624% 2/19/2026 Corient Private Wealth LLC12,388$2.34M0.0%+339.3%0.063% 2/18/2026 Summit Global Investments2,417$457K0.0%+67.6%0.012% 2/18/2026 State of Tennessee Department of Treasury5,119$983K0.0%-34.3%0.026% 2/18/2026 XTX Topco Ltd7,717$1.46M0.0%N/A0.039% 2/18/2026 Uniplan Investment Counsel Inc.40,493$7.66M2.2%-4.0%0.206% 2/18/2026 Voloridge Investment Management LLC12,038$2.28M0.0%+40.0%0.061% 2/18/2026 Virtus Investment Advisers LLC3,605$682K0.2%-7.2%0.018% 2/18/2026 Wellington Management Group LLP8,426$1.59M0.0%+1.3%0.043% 2/18/2026 Susquehanna Portfolio Strategies LLC7,744$1.46M0.0%+33.6%0.039% 2/18/2026 Private Capital Management LLC208,891$39.50M3.6%-8.0%1.061% 2/18/2026 Man Group plc3,450$652K0.0%N/A0.018% 2/18/2026 Janus Henderson Group PLC995,400$188.20M0.1%-4.5%5.058% 2/18/2026 Gotham Asset Management LLC9,346$1.77M0.0%-1.4%0.047% 2/17/2026 Freestone Grove Partners LP2,867$542K0.0%N/A0.015% 2/17/2026 Guggenheim Capital LLC5,257$994K0.0%N/A0.027% 2/17/2026 AQR Capital Management LLC5,158$975K0.0%+12.5%0.026% 2/17/2026 Cetera Investment Advisers3,335$631K0.0%+111.6%0.017% 2/17/2026 Equitable Holdings Inc.9,605$1.82M0.0%+8.7%0.049% 2/17/2026 Trexquant Investment LP11,550$2.18M0.0%-74.0%0.059% 2/17/2026 Amundi3,033$573K0.0%-9.6%0.015% 2/17/2026 Price T Rowe Associates Inc. MD19,992$3.78M0.0%+5.7%0.102% 2/17/2026 Osaic Holdings Inc.59,405$11.23M0.0%-41.0%0.302% 2/17/2026 California State Teachers Retirement System18,797$3.55M0.0%+2.7%0.096% 2/17/2026 Diadema Partners LP2,987$565K0.1%N/A0.015% 2/17/2026 Russell Investments Group Ltd.138,464$26.18M0.0%+1.7%0.704% 2/17/2026 Maryland State Retirement & Pension System2,872$543K0.0%+2.2%0.015% 2/17/2026 Clark Capital Management Group Inc.79,778$15.08M0.1%-3.9%0.405% Musk's shopping list: batteries ✓ solar ✓ data ✓ power ___ (Ad)Elon Musk has a clear pattern: when a supplier becomes mission-critical, he acquires it. He bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion and Twitter for $44 billion. Now one small company makes the equipment his Colossus supercomputer - a million GPUs consuming nearly $1 billion a month in power - cannot run without. Analyst Dylan Jovine has identified the name and ticker. 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During the previous two years, 316 institutional investors and hedge funds held shares of Ligand Pharmaceuticals. The most heavily invested institutionals were Tudor Investment Corp ET AL ($2.79B), Vanguard Group Inc. ($392.11M), Janus Henderson Group PLC ($201.62M), State Street Corp ($142.03M), Chicago Capital LLC ($106.15M), Stephens Investment Management Group LLC ($98.76M), and Invesco Ltd. ($97.65M).Learn more on Ligand Pharmaceuticals' institutional investors. What percentage of Ligand Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by institutional investors? 91.28% of Ligand Pharmaceuticals' stock is owned by institutional investors. Learn more on LGND's institutional investor holdings. Which institutional investors have been buying Ligand Pharmaceuticals' stock? Of the 281 institutional investors that purchased Ligand Pharmaceuticals' stock in the last 24 months, the following investors and hedge funds have bought the highest volume of shares: Tudor Investment Corp ET AL ($15.75M), Massachusetts Financial Services Co. MA ($479.89K), Franklin Resources Inc. ($479.78K), Acuitas Investments LLC ($382.60K), Chicago Capital LLC ($342.23K), Invesco Ltd. ($327.74K), and Victory Capital Management Inc. ($243.46K). How much institutional buying is happening at Ligand Pharmaceuticals? Institutional investors have bought a total of 19,302,178 shares in the last 24 months. This purchase volume represents approximately $3.41B in transactions. Which of Ligand Pharmaceuticals' major shareholders have been selling company stock? Of the 137 institutional investors that sold Ligand Pharmaceuticals' stock in the last 24 months, the following investors and hedge funds have sold the highest volume of shares: Dimensional Fund Advisors LP ($279.29K), Congress Asset Management Co. ($187.25K), Impax Asset Management Group plc ($115K), Stephens Investment Management Group LLC ($112.55K), Aberdeen Group plc ($109.92K), Villere ST Denis J & Co. LLC ($99.95K), and Ashford Capital Management Inc. ($94.96K). How much institutional selling is happening at Ligand Pharmaceuticals? Institutional investors have sold a total of 2,135,750 shares in the last 24 months. This volume of shares sold represents approximately $376.69M in transactions. 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