QualityDipStocks / Health Care · Pharmaceuticals
Liquidia LQDA
Outside our quality screen, so we don’t track its dips. It’s 54% below its 52-week high.
Outside our quality screen, trading near our fair value estimate, 10% over its Market Value.
Worth knowing
- Deepest drop from a 52-week high in over 3 years
From the data on this page, as of the last close. How we pick these
- Fair value est.
- $45.85+10%
- Market Value
- $37.87price +10%
- Off 52-wk high
- −54%
- Risk vs market
- Lowbeta 0.62
3 bullish · 4 bearish See why
Repriced or dip?
Dip: business intact
The price is 54% below its 52-week high (Aug 10), but the business held up: revenue +56.5%, earnings per share +519.7%, free cash flow +266.2%.
Some numbers held up (revenue +56.5%, earnings per share +519.7%, free cash flow +266.2%), others slipped. The price is 54% below its 52-week high.
The price is 54% below its 52-week high, and the business changed too.
Within 10% of its 52-week high, so there is no dip to judge yet.
The evidence 8 numbers, high vs now
- Revenue, last 12 months$288M → $451M (+56.5%)held up
- Earnings per share, 12 months$0.22 → $1.37 (+519.7%)held up
- Free cash flow, 12 months$41M → $151M (+266.2%)held up
- Operating margin15.8% → 37.4% (+21.6 pts)held up
- Shares outstanding+0.3% (more shares, each owns less)held up
- Stock vs its sector (Health Care)stock −54%, sector median +1% since Aug 10changed
- Price fall vs business numbersprice −54%, revenue/EPS/FCF median +266% (shown, not scored)
- Valuation multipleP/FCF 223.7× at the high → 28.2× now (shown, not scored)
Business numbers as reported at the high (12 months to Mar 31, 2026) vs the latest filing (12 months to Jun 30, 2026). Each measure is scored from −1 (business changed) to +1 (business intact) and weighted: revenue, earnings per share, free cash flow, operating margin, revenue growth rate, share count, net cash and the move vs its sector. 60 or more reads as a dip, 40 or less as a repricing. Analyst estimates are not in our data, so they are not used. How to read it
Data-based read, not advice.
Priced in
How much growth the market assumed at the 52-week high, the low and today (a reverse DCF).
At the high ($91.03, Aug 10) the price assumed about 55%/yr free-cash-flow growth; today about 13%. The last 3 years delivered 115%/yr (revenue).
Dashed line: what the last 3 years delivered, 115%/yr (revenue)
| High | Low | Now | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $91.03Aug 10 | $24.36Oct 31 | $41.85 |
| Implied growth | +55% | n/a | +13% |
| P/E | 412.7× | n/a | 30.6× |
| P/FCF | 223.7× | — | 28.2× |
What this means: the higher the implied growth, the more the price already counts on. If today's number sits well below what the business has delivered, the market expects less than its track record.
How it’s computed
Reverse DCF: the same 10-year free-cash-flow model as our fair value estimate (9.5% discount rate, growth for years 1–5 fading to 3% by year 10, 3% after), solved for the growth that makes it equal the market value at each price. For the high and the low we use only the filings that were public on that day, so nothing from a later report leaks back. Market value = that close × diluted shares. P/E = market value / 12-month net income; Price / FCF = market value / 12-month free cash flow; EV / Sales = (market value + debt − cash) / 12-month revenue. Hidden when the share count moved over 20% (split, merger), free cash flow is negative, or the company reports in another currency.
Valuation
What we estimate it's worth, and how it ranks on value vs every stock we cover.
Fair value estimate
How the range is computed
Ten-year free-cash-flow DCF. Same 10-year free-cash-flow model as the base: discount rate 9.5% ±1 point and growth 15.0% ±2 points. Bear = 10.5% and 13.0%; bull = 8.5% and 17.0% (both fade to 3%). A model estimate from public filings, not a forecast of where the price will go.
Price sits inside the range.
What the price implies To be worth today’s price, LQDA’s free cash flow would need to grow about 13% a year for five years; our estimate uses 15%.
Risk vs market
How risk vs market is measured
One year of daily returns (Oct 31 to Nov 2, 252 sessions). Beta = how much LQDA moved for each 1% move in the S&P 500 (SPY); 1.0 moves with the market. Volatility is the yearly standard deviation of daily returns. Past behavior, not a forecast.
Moves much less than the market, but its own price swings are 7.2× the S&P 500’s (it moves on its own news).
- Beta vs S&P 500
- 0.62
- Volatility
- 92% vs 13% SPY
- Correlation SPY
- 0.09
- Correlation QQQ
- 0.07
How it ranks
Where LQDA stands vs every one of the 1,996 stocks we cover that has the number. Longer bar = better.
Top quarter on 1 of 4 measures
- Discount to fair value estimate10% · price below our base caseTop 39%of 1,314
- Free cash flow yield3.6% · free cash flow vs market capLowest 45%of 1,391
- Dividends + buybacks yield0% · cash paid out or used to retire shares, vs market capLowest 1%of 1,836
- Operating margin37% · of sales kept as operating profitTop 7%of 1,288
From SEC filings and our fair value estimate model. A ranking, not advice.
Valuation details
DCF $45.85 · MV $37.87 · FCF value $19.79
Assumes 15.0% growth for 5 years (revenue grew 115.0% a year FY22–FY25; capped at 15%), fading to 3%; 9.5% discount rate, 3% terminal growth. FCF base $1.49 a share (trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026), from the 10-Q filed Aug 12, 2026.
Fundamentals
The business itself: sales, profits, cash and debt, from SEC filings.
Bull vs bear
Rule-based from the data on this page, strongest first. Not advice.
Top bullish points 3 of 5
ProfitabilityOperating margin widened to −32.5% in FY2025 from −419.6% in FY2023 (SEC filings).
GrowthSales compounded 115% a year from FY2022 to FY2025.
ProfitabilityReturn on equity of 132%, above the 6.8% median for the 210 Health Care companies we cover.
Top bearish points 4 of 5
ProfitabilityGross margin narrowed to 58.0% in FY2024 from 82.1% in FY2022 (SEC filings).
Cash returnsShare count up 18.5% in a year: existing holders are being diluted.
ValuationPrice / book of 21.7×, above the 5.2× median for the 217 Health Care companies we cover.
ValuationTrades 10.5% above its Market Value of $37.87, the average price paid since the Oct 14 filing.
All fundamentals
P/E 30.6 · FCF yield 3.6% · ROE 132%
Valuation
- P/E
- 30.6×Health Care median 29.0×
- Price / FCF
- 28.2×
- FCF yield
- 3.6%
- EV / EBITDA
- n/aD&A or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Price / sales
- 9.41×
- Price / book
- 21.75×
- Market cap
- $4.2Bprice × diluted shares
- Enterprise value
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Growth
- Revenue, 12 months
- $451M
- Sales growth, 12 months
- n/an/m: revenue a year ago near zero
- Sales growth, 3 yrs
- +115.0%/yrfrom FY2022
- Diluted EPS, 12 months
- $1.40
- EPS growth, last FY
- n/afewer than two years of diluted EPS
- Net income, 12 months
- $139M
- Net income growth
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
Profitability
- Gross margin
- n/agross profit isn't reported (common for service and financial companies)
- Operating margin
- 37.4%
- Net margin
- 30.7%
- FCF margin
- 33.4%
- Return on equity
- 132%
- Return on invested capital
- n/aoperating income, debt, equity or cash not tagged
Balance sheet
- Cash & short-term inv.
- $284M
- Total debt
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Net cash
- n/acash or debt not tagged in SEC data
- Debt / equity
- n/adebt or equity not tagged in SEC data
- Interest coverage
- 6.3×operating income / interest
Cash flow & returns
- Free cash flow, 12 months
- $151M
- FCF growth, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Dividend yield
- 0%
- Payout ratio
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Buybacks, 12 months
- n/anot reported in its SEC filings
- Share count, 1 year
- +18.5%diluted shares vs a year ago
- Stock-based comp
- $35M
Trailing 12 months to Jun 30, 2026; balance sheet at Jun 30, 2026. From Liquidia’s SEC filings. Sparklines show up to six fiscal years. n/a means we don’t hold that number, with the reason. How each is computed.
The business
FCF $0.1B · Sales +1843%
- Free cash flow, 12 months$0.1B
- Free-cash-flow yield3.6%
- Free-cash-flow margin16%
- Gross margin92%
- Operating margin50%
- Return on invested capital187%
- Return on equity132%
- Sales growth (latest quarter vs year-ago quarter)+1843%
- Net debt / EBITDA−0.6×
Chart & levels
Where the price is vs its key levels and trends.
Key levels
Every level vs today’s $41.85
- 52-wk lowlowest close, 1 year$24.36−41.8%
- Market Valueavg paid since Oct 14$37.87−9.5%
- PriceMon Nov 2 close$41.85you are here
- Fair value est.base case$45.85+9.6%
- 52-wk highhighest close, 1 year$91.03+117.5%
Momentum & 52-week range
RSI 47 · 5 days −4.3%
Signals
Reversal signal setups, the public ledger and the next earnings date.
Setup & signals
No setup armed
No setup armed, so there’s no trigger or stop to track yet. Reversal signal rules only run on companies that pass our quality screen.
LQDA is outside our quality screen
One text when a published rule fires on one of the 332 quality companies we track: the ticker, the price, the stop and a link to the numbers. Nothing else.
Voices & buzz
Who is talking about it, and how it compares with peers.
Who’s talking about it
Notable investors, executives, analysts and public figures on Liquidia in the last 48 hours. Headlines as published, each linked. Their words, not ours.
No notable mentions in the last 48 hours. Checked Nov 3, 1:01 PM ET.
Compare with peers
Closest in size in Pharmaceuticals
Information only, not investment advice. Fair value estimates and talking points are rule-based model output from public data and can be wrong; stop levels are reference points, not orders. How every number is computed.