Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987, headquartered in Jupiter, Florida. The company operates as a technology and capital provider, partnering with pharmaceutical companies to advance clinical development programs. Its business model focuses on royalty aggregation and investing in late-stage assets, with target investments of $10 million ...Ligand Pharmaceuticals Incorporated is a biopharmaceutical company founded in 1987, headquartered in Jupiter, Florida. The company operates as a technology and capital provider, partnering with pharmaceutical companies to advance clinical development programs. Its business model focuses on royalty aggregation and investing in late-stage assets, with target investments of $10 million to $50 million per product. The company's diverse portfolio includes commercialized products for hematologic malignancies (e.g., Kyprolis, Evomela, Rylaze), infectious diseases (e.g., Veklury, Vaxneuvance, Pneumosil), bone health (e.g., Teriparatide, Duavee), and other conditions like postpartum depression (Zulresso) and hypertension (Minnebro). It also supplies Captisol, a proprietary technology used in drug formulations. With only 47 employees, the company leverages partnerships and collaborations to drive revenue, reporting a revenue of US$167.13 million in FY24. Financially, Ligand maintains a strong balance sheet with a current ratio of 30.485 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 1.164, indicating low leverage. The company has a market cap of approximately $5.875 billion and trades on NASDAQ. Under the leadership of CEO Todd C. Davis, who has over 30 years of experience, Ligand continues to expand its portfolio and provide guidance for future growth, such as the 2026 revenue guidance of $245 million to $285 million. The company's long-term strategy involves profitable drug discovery and development, focusing on critical unmet medical needs.
Operator: Hello, everyone. Thank you for joining us, and welcome to the Ligand Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. [Operator Instructions] I will now hand the conference over to Melanie Herman, Head of Investor Relations. Melanie, please go ahead.
Melanie Herman: Good morning, everyone, and welcome to Ligand's Second Quarter 2026 Earnings Call. With me on the call today are CEO, Todd Davis; Chief Financial Officer, Octavio Espinoza; and Vice President of Portfolio Strategy and Investments, Lauren Hay. During the call today, we will review the financial results released earlier today and provide commentary on our partner portfolio and business development activity, followed by a question-and-answer session. Before we get started, I would like to point out we will be discussing non-GAAP results, which excludes certain items such as stock-based compensation, amortization of intangible assets, amortization or impairment of financial assets and gains or losses from derivative assets, amongst others. I encourage you to review the reconciliation of these non-GAAP measures to their most directly comparable GAAP measures, which can be found in today's release available on our website. We believe these adjusted measures provide valuable insight into our core operating performance, both historically and moving forward. Our earnings release and a link to today's webcast can be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at ligand.com. This call is being recorded, and the audio portion will be archived in the Investors section of our website. On today's call, we will make forward-looking statements regarding our financial results and other matters related to the company's business. Please refer to the safe harbor statement related to these forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks and uncertainties. We remind you actual events or results may differ materially from those projected or discussed and that all forward-looking statements are based upon current available information. Ligand assumes no obligation to update these statements. To better understand the risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ, we refer you to the documents that Ligand files with the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, that can be found on Ligand's website at ligand.com or on the SEC's website at sec.gov. And with that, I will now turn the call over to our CEO, Todd Davis.
Todd Davis: Thank you, Melanie, and good morning, everyone. We appreciate you joining us today. We continue to execute on the financial transformation of Ligand. In the second quarter, we continued to deliver outstanding financial performance while executing on 2 initiatives that significantly strengthen and position our long-term growth platform. First, shortly after the end of the quarter, we closed the acquisition of XOMA Royalty, the largest transaction in our company's history. Second, we successfully completed a $700 million 0 coupon convertible offering. …