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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated - Common Stock (LGND)

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LGND in the last 90 days

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated - Common Stock (LGND) (LGND) had no congress transactions and no insider purchases in filings from the last 90 days.

FINRA’s latest report (settlement 15 SEPT 2026) shows 2,632,434 shares held short, 13.5 days to cover, up 6.1% from the report before.

  • Delay: each filing below shows how many days passed between the trade and its publication. None of this is real-time.

Latest filing on file: 08 JUN 2026 · FINRA settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · public filings, reported as filed

What the filings show

What the filings show · last 90 days

1 of 4 sources

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The disclosed money is leaning away from this name, on what has actually been filed. This reads on one source only, so treat it lightly.

Short interest
Short interest rose 37.2% — 1,918,207 to 2,632,434 shares between 15 JUL 2026 and 15 SEPT 2026. See the filings →
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This summarises filings that have already been published — it is not a forecast, a rating of the company, or advice. Every figure above is listed in full further down this page, with the document it came from.

FINRA short interest

Settlement 15 SEPT 2026 · shares held short

2,632,434shares held short

Days to cover

13.53

Avg daily volume

194,509

Since last report

+6.10%

As of 15 September 2026, 2,632,434 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated - Common Stock (LGND) shares were held short — the total across every reporting firm, not one fund's position. That is 151,453 shares more than the previous report, a 6.10% increase. At the average daily volume of 194,509 shares, that position represents 13.53 days of trading — what the filing calls days to cover.

This is the most recent figure that exists, and it is 17 days old. FINRA collects short interest twice a month, on a settlement date, and publishes it about eight business days later. So nobody has a live short-interest number for LGND — not us, and not anyone quoting one. We print the settlement date on the figure so you always know which day you are looking at.

Across the 12 reports we hold, the position has risen from 1,495,607 shares on 31 March 2026 to 2,632,434 today, a change of 76.0%. The highest reading in that window was 2,632,434 shares on 15 September 2026.

SettlementShares shortDays to cover
15 SEPT 20262,632,43413.53
31 AUG 20262,480,98114.12
14 AUG 20262,448,0768.76
31 JUL 20262,169,5857.36
15 JUL 20261,918,2074.99
30 JUN 20262,121,6172.60
15 JUN 20261,689,7148.33
29 MAY 20261,638,4118.18
15 MAY 20261,505,1796.67
30 APR 20261,455,0877.97
15 APR 20261,406,7015.26
31 MAR 20261,495,6076.45
What is LGND's short interest?
2,632,434 shares, as of the 15 September 2026 settlement date. That is the figure FINRA published, unadjusted.
What percentage of the float is short?
We do not publish that, because FINRA does not publish float. The regulator reports the number of shares held short; turning it into a percentage needs a share count from somewhere else, and different sources disagree about what counts as float. We would rather give you the number that was actually filed than a percentage built on an assumption.
How current is this?
It is 17 days old, and that is as fresh as short interest gets. FINRA measures it twice a month and publishes it seven business days after the settlement date. Any site showing you a "live" short interest figure is showing you something else.
What does days to cover mean?
It is the short position divided by average daily trading volume — here, 13.53. It describes how many days of ordinary trading the position is equivalent to. It is arithmetic from the filing, not a prediction about what will happen.
Where does this come from?
FINRA's consolidated short interest file, which is public. We read it directly and store it unchanged, except that we blank the days-to-cover placeholder FINRA writes when a stock has almost no volume.

Disclosed insider buying on file

—no purchase on file passed the price check

Open-market purchases only — the amount is a fact, not a verdict.

On file here

Short positions0

Insider purchases0

Congress transactions4

Latest change08 JUN 2026

SHORT POSITIONS · 0INSIDER BUYS · 0CONGRESS · 4

Congress transactions on file

4 disclosed · newest first · every row links to its filing

WhoAmount as filedTradedFiledLag
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00029 MAY 202608 JUN 202610 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00003 MAR 202607 APR 202635 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00015 JAN 202613 FEB 202629 days
Hon. Gilbert CisnerosBOUGHT$1,001 – $15,00005 JAN 202613 FEB 202639 days
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