Why is LQDA down?
Down 51% from Aug 10 to Nov 6.
- Our sources do not explain the slide.
- The S&P 500 fell 4.9% over the same days.
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1 more thing pulling LQDA's score down, for Pro members.
LQDA's Quality Score rose 1 point on Fri, Nov 6, to 5. It had its calmest day in a week.
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Down 51% from Aug 10 to Nov 6.
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1 more thing pulling LQDA's score down, for Pro members.
| The company | Sales up 2,234% on the year |
| Latest filing | 8-K, Oct 14 |
ReportReports tomorrow, before the open. Every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. It rose after 3 of its last 4 reports, +4.8% on average. Past reports ›
Liquidia Settles United Therapeutics Suits With $380.7M Deal
LQDA closed +26.6% that day on 7.1x normal volume.
After its last 4 reports it closed +4.8% on average, higher 3 of 4 times.
Chief Accounting Officer Dana Boyle sold 1,581 shares on Oct 26, under a planned sale. 88 more insider trades this year.
Decision dates and advisory committee meetings the companies have announced in their filings, soonest first and small companies first.
LQDA is #30 of 90 by Quality Score.
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Share count against a year before: LQDA +3.9%, UTHR -2.5%.
Reports Tue Nov 10, before the open (tomorrow). Confirmed.
What an earnings report is: every 3 months, a company tells everyone how much it sold and earned. We read the figures, the outlook, and how the stock moved after.
The figures are not read from the release yet.
“The increase of $163.9 million was due to higher volume of YUTREPIA sales.”
LQDA's results filing gives no sales by line in a table we read.
No outlook figures read from this release.
“The increase of $18.6 million or 48% was primarily due to a $10.0 million increase in personnel expenses and a $3.1 million increase in stock-based compensation driven by higher headcount, and an $8.6 million increase in commercial and consulting expenses to support the commercialization of YUTREPIA.”
From its results filing (SEC filing · Aug 12)
Its share count grew 12% a year over 3 years.
| Reported | Gap | Reaction | 5 days |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 12, 2026 | -5.0% | -10.5% | -15.6% |
| May 11, 2026 | +4.3% | +25.6% | +34.6% |
| Mar 5, 2026 | -6.9% | +0.4% | +12.2% |
Sales grew in four of the last six years, to $158M in 2025. It lost money in each of the seven years.
RSI 51.0, MACD above signal, below both averages. Not scored.
5 insiders sold $130M across 52 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest:
4 trades disclosed in the last six months. The newest:
Officers and directors with a Form 4 in the last 12 months.
In ETFs: LQDA is under 0.1% of VTI, the most of the 24 funds Breakaway covers, by their holdings as filed for Jun 30, 2026.
Liquidia Corp is a United States-based biopharmaceutical company focused on the development, manufacturing, and commercialization of products that address unmet patient needs, with the current focus directed towards the treatment of pulmonary hypertension (PH) and pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung disease. It conducts research, development, and manufacturing of novel products by applying its proprietary PRINT technology, a particle engineering platform, to enable the precise production of uniform drug particles. Its product includes YUTREPIA (treprostinil) inhalation powder, for the treatment of pulmonary arterial hypertension. The company also conducting studies on L606, an investigational, liposomal formulation of treprostinil.
“The pharmaceutical industry is intensely competitive, subject to rapid and significant technological change and places emphasis on the value of proprietary products.”
LQDA scores 5 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average. It is #30 of 90 in Pharma by Quality Score, with 3 of 14 chart checks firing. Down 51% from Aug 10 to Nov 6. Breakaway does not say whether to buy any stock: the score does not know your situation, and it is not a recommendation to buy or sell anything. Please do your own research.
LQDA scores 5 today, which Breakaway calls Below Average (0 to 5). That is #30 of 90 in Pharma by Quality Score. The score adds up the chart checks, the trend, the company's filed sales, its profits, the news, insider trades, and Congress trades. The section above lists the lines behind LQDA's 5.
5 insiders sold $130M across 52 filings in the last 6 months. No open-market buys on record. The newest is Stephen M. Bloch, Director, who sold $6.4M on Oct 5. Every filing, with the scored weight, for Pro members.
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