“Interest expense Interest expense increased by $28.5 million, or 43.6%, in the first quarter of 2026 as compared to the first quarter of 2025, primarily driven by the issuance of $2.0 billion of senior unsecured notes in September 2025 and the $380 million te…”10-Q · May 6, 2026 ↗
Royalty Pharma plc
RPRX
Market read
Royalty Pharma plc's move is spreading beyond its market group.
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 25 group members are active now; 1 filing-linked outsider is moving with the group, and 0 of 30 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
- At least 17 of 25 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- BDX remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Invalidation: The live read weakens if participation falls to 8 of 25 members or fewer.
Research brief
The story so far
No new filing conclusion is available. 5 of 25 group members are active now; 1 filing-linked outsider is moving with the group, and 0 of 30 directly disclosed connections are confirming.
No thresholded supportive filing evidence is available yet.
No thresholded adverse filing evidence is available yet.
- At least 17 of 25 durable members become active together.
- Capital-flow agreement rises above 55%.
- BDX remains aligned with the group in the next market snapshot.
Company research
Understand the business, not just the ticker
Use the company’s filings to identify the few operating, demand, cost, capital and regulatory variables that determine its earnings power.
- Which operating variable is changing?
- Is that change durable, cyclical or one-off?
- What evidence would disprove the current interpretation?
- Latest annual revenue changed +5.1% year over year.
- Operating margin changed +8.5 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- Operating cash flow covered net income at 3.23x in the latest annual period.
- Credit and interest rates has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Demand and volume has repeated favorable evidence across 4 filings.
- Net margin changed -5.5 percentage points in the latest annual period.
- EV/sales is 26% above the available filing-peer median; determine whether growth and quality justify the difference.
Price as of Sep 10, 2026
58.78Reported annual revenue and per-share history. This is accounting history, not a forecast.
What management says matters
Persistent and emerging business drivers
“Cabometyx/Cometriq – Royalty Receipts from Cabometyx/Cometriq, which is marketed by Exelixis, Ipsen and Takeda, primarily for the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma, hepatocellular carcinoma and neuroendocrine tumors, increased by $1.9 million in the…”10-Q · May 6, 2026 ↗
“Variables affecting the recognition of interest income from financial royalty assets under the prospective effective interest method include any one of the following: (1) additional acquisitions, (2) changes in expected cash flows of the underlying pharmaceut…”10-K · Feb 11, 2026 ↗
“We recorded provision expense for changes in expected cash flows related to the cystic fibrosis franchise, primarily due to the inclusion of consensus estimates in 2024 for Vertex’s Alyftrek and the conservative assumption that royalties will only be collecte…”10-K · Feb 11, 2026 ↗
Valuation discipline
Descriptive valuation snapshot
Price/sales 14.0× · EV/sales 17.3×. Comparisons use only industry-matched filing peers.
Mechanical 2.0-year scenarios are available as editable assumptions, not consensus.
Price action
How the market is pricing the story
Jodie does not have enough daily observations to draw a useful short-term chart for this asset. The latest quoted price was checked 11 Sept, 11:25 GMT-4; this is a coverage limitation, not a flat-price conclusion.
Developments
No sourced recent-development timeline yet
Jodie has not returned a relevant primary source or news item for RPRX. This is an evidence-coverage gap, not a conclusion that nothing material happened.
Business and financial condition
Reported financial figures are not available yet
Jodie has not returned structured SEC XBRL fundamentals for this asset. This is a coverage limitation, not an assessment of the business or its financial health.
Filing analysis
No comparable filing assessment is available yet
Jodie has not yet found a suitable current-versus-prior filing comparison for RPRX. This does not mean the latest filing was neutral or immaterial.
Business ecosystem
The relationships behind RPRX
Customers, suppliers, partners and competitors named in company filings—not inferred from headlines.
Depends on
ABBVAbbVie Inc.distributorFeb 11, 2026 ▾
“Imbruvica – Royalty Receipts from Imbruvica, which is marketed by AbbVie and Johnson & Johnson for the treatment of blood cancers and chronic graft versus host disease, decreased by $20.7 million in 2025 as compared to 2024, reflecting competitive pressures a…”
BIIBBiogen Inc.distributorFeb 11, 2026 ▾
“Tysabri – Royalty Receipts from Tysabri, which is marketed by Biogen for the treatment of multiple sclerosis, decreased by $12.1 million in 2025 as compared to 2024, due to increased competition in rest of world, partially offset by a favorable U.S.”
Depended on by
IONSIonis Pharmaceuticals, Inc.investeeApr 29, 2026 ▾
“These amounts are related to the Royalty Pharma Investments, or Royalty Pharma, transaction, in which we sold a minority interest in our future SPINRAZA and pelacarsen royalties to Royalty Pharma for a $500 million upfront payment and $625 million of potentia…”
Filing peers
Companies whose filings use similar operating language.
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What is moving around it
Live connections
RPRX is currently a Participant in the organic co-movement group Biopharmaceuticals and Care. This group is discovered from market behaviour rather than assigned from an industry taxonomy. 3 filing-linked names are in the relationship map; none is currently confirmed as moving with the group.
Context history
Theme membership history
No durable theme membership has been observed for this name yet.