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Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc

The past year was a good investment year for Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc investors

Over the last 12 months, that were loss-making period for the investors in Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc, the stock lost around 1 percent. The period between August 2011 and August 2016 was a good period for the investors. The stock rose around 834 percent. Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's revenues between 2011 and 2015 were very volatile through the time and moved between 31,39 million dollars and 71,91 million dollars. Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's net results between 2011 and 2015 were very fluctuating and moved between 9,71 million dollars and 254,93 million dollars.

The company mostly operates in the pharmaceutical sector. The global pharmaceutical companies gained over the past 10 years on average 75 percent. Since 2011 the sector is 147 percent higher and over the past year minus 75 percent.

Over the past 5 years the American company paid out dividends. In the period 2011 till 2015 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc paid it's investors each year a higher dividend per share. Based on the raising dividend payments Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc can be seen as a kind of dividend aristocrat.

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc' balance mostly financed with equity

At the end of 2015 the pharmaceutical company's balance sheet was worth 533,93 million dollars. Of the total balance sheet 229,54 million dollars (42,99 percent) was financed by debt. As per the end of 2015 Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc's price/earnings-ratio equaled 4. So investors paid for 1 stock 4 times the earnings per share of 2015. Many analysts say that based on her price/earnings-ratio and dividend yield the American stock can be seen as a value stock.

At the end of 2015 the pharmaceutical company's market size (her number of outstanding share times the stock price) equaled around 2,1 billion dollars. At the end of 2015 the American company had around 19,79 million stocks listed on the exchanges.

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