Innoviva
INVA on Nasdaq. Innoviva sells hospital drugs to hospitals and earns royalties from GSK. Market value $1.5bn.
Price checks use the past 12 months to June 2026. Quality checks use five annual reports, the latest for the year to December 2025.
Should I look at this?
Worth a closer look
Why it could be worth it
What to watch out for
Nothing stood out in the numbers we check.
This is not advice. Check the numbers below.
For every $100 of what the whole company costs, it produced $12.70 of spare cash in the past 12 months. A savings account pays about $4.
You pay 7.3 years of operating profit for the business. The average large US company costs around 18.
Each dollar kept in the business earns 16 cents a year. Above 10 is good.
Quality score: 96 of 100. Price score: 100 of 100. Our list needs 70 on quality and 60 on price.
$20.64 a share, 25% above its 1-year low
Over the past year the price has ranged from $16.52 to $25.15.
Pays no dividend
Prices from Monday’s close (5 October).
Five years of cash, in billions
| Revenue | |||||
| Revenue | $392m | $331m | $310m | $359m | $411m |
| Operating margin | |||||
| Operating margin | 95.7% | 91.4% | 36.7% | 46.5% | 39.8% |
| Debt to equity | |||||
| Debt to equity | 0.95 | 0.96 | 0.66 | 0.65 | 0.22 |
| Shares outstanding | |||||
| Shares outstanding | 0.07bn | 0.06bn | 0.06bn | 0.07bn | 0.07bn |
Health checks
- Free cash flow positive4 of 4 years
- Accounting looks honest (Beneish)Not enough data
- Financial strength (Piotroski)5 of 8 checks we could run
- Profit backed by cash (accruals)Yes
- Debt0.22× equity
- Revenue growth, five yearsSlow, 4.1% a year
- Buying back its own sharesRoughly flat
The quarter to June 2026
How the business did, compared with the same quarter a year earlier.
- Sales: $120 million last quarter, up 19% on a year ago.
- A loss of $83 million, after a profit of $64 million a year ago.
- It keeps 37 cents of each $1 of sales as operating profit, down from 48 cents a year earlier.
- Spare cash over the past 12 months: $189 million, down from $200 million.
- 13% fewer shares than a year ago. Each share owns a bit more of the company.
- It has $312 million more cash than debt. A year ago debt was $51 million more than cash.
- Sales grew on a year ago in each of the last 4 quarters.
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $90m |
| December 2024 | $92m |
| March 2025 | $89m |
| June 2025 | $100m |
| September 2025 | $108m |
| December 2025 | $115m |
| March 2026 | $98m |
| June 2026 | $120m |
| Quarter to | Amount |
|---|---|
| September 2024 | $1m |
| December 2024 | $20m |
| March 2025 | -$47m |
| June 2025 | $64m |
| September 2025 | $90m |
| December 2025 | $164m |
| March 2026 | $187m |
| June 2026 | -$83m |
From the company's quarterly reports to the SEC.
Dates
- Next results (estimated)
- n/a
- Last annual report (10-K)
- 25 February 2026
- Next quarterly (estimated, 10-Q)
- 4 November 2026
Who owns it
5 long-term investors we follow own it, unchanged from 5 last quarter. 308 funds in all.
| Fund | Value | Share of that fund | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boston PartnersBoston Partners team | $44m | <0.1% | Added |
| Sarissa CapitalAlex Denner | $43m | 24.1% | Cut |
| Royce & AssociatesChuck Royce | $27m | 0.2% | Added |
| Gotham Asset ManagementJoel Greenblatt | $2m | <0.1% | Cut |
| LSV Asset ManagementJosef Lakonishok | $2m | <0.1% | Cut |
Largest holders overall
- BlackRock$262mAdded
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LP$102m
- Vanguard Portfolio Management$96m
- Renaissance Technologies$92m
- State Street$74mAdded
- Vanguard Capital Management$72m
- Millennium Management$58mAdded
- Geode Capital Management$47mAdded
- Systematic Financial Management LP$46m
- Boston Partners$44mAdded
From 13F filings for the quarter ended 30 June 2026.
Big holders and activists
7 investors own more than 5%.
- BlackRock, Inc.Passive investor14.0%Since 31 March 2025
- Putnam Investment Management, LLCPassive investor7.0%Since 31 December 2024
- Dimensional Fund Advisors LPPassive investor5.8%Since 31 December 2025
- Vanguard Portfolio ManagementPassive investor5.8%Since 31 March 2026
- Renaissance Technologies LLCPassive investorat least 5.6%−1.9 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 31 December 2025
- Vanguard Capital ManagementPassive investor5.0%Since 30 June 2026
- at least 4.7%−3.7 pts(filed with 1 related holder)Since 13 March 2025
- Franklin Resources, Inc.Passive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 June 2025
- BANK OF NOVA SCOTIAPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 30 September 2025
- The Vanguard GroupPassive investorSold down below 5%Since 13 March 2026
- Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P.Passive investorSold down below 5%Since 31 December 2024
| Holder | Stake | Since | |
|---|---|---|---|
BlackRock, Inc. Passive investor | 14.0% | 31 March 2025 | |
Putnam Investment Management, LLC Passive investor | 7.0% | 31 December 2024 | |
Dimensional Fund Advisors LP Passive investor | 5.8% | 31 December 2025 | |
Vanguard Portfolio Management Passive investor | 5.8% | 31 March 2026 | |
Renaissance Technologies LLC Passive investor | at least 5.6%−1.9 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 31 December 2025 | |
Vanguard Capital Management Passive investor | 5.0% | 30 June 2026 | |
at least 4.7%−3.7 pts (filed with 1 related holder) | 13 March 2025 | ||
Franklin Resources, Inc. Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 June 2025 | |
BANK OF NOVA SCOTIA Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 30 September 2025 | |
The Vanguard Group Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 13 March 2026 | |
Westfield Capital Management Company, L.P. Passive investor | Sold down below 5% | 31 December 2024 |
From Schedule 13D and 13G filings: anyone owning more than 5% must file one.
What insiders did
No insider bought or sold on the open market in the last 12 months.
From Form 4 filings: insiders must report trades in their own company's shares within two days.
Warning signs in its filings
Problems the company itself reported to the SEC, in its own words.
None of the warning signs we check for were found.
We look for five warning signs: doubt it can keep going, weak checks on its own accounts, a notice that its past accounts can't be relied on, a change of auditor, and one customer bringing in a big share of sales. We don't check lawsuits, investigations or debt yet.
We checked the auditor's report, internal controls, restatement notices, auditor changes and big customers in the 10-K filed 25 Feb 2026, plus the 10-Q filed 5 Aug 2026 and 4 later 8-Ks.
A 10-K is the yearly report every US company files with the SEC. An 8-K is a short notice of a big event.
What could go wrong
Cheap for a reason is the question the numbers cannot answer.
Whether the price already reflects the risks is what the deep dive is for.
What changed in the risks this year
Companies must list what could hurt them each year. These are the parts that changed since last year’s report.
Reduced prices and reimbursement rates due to the actions of governments, payors, or competition or other healthcare cost containment initiatives such as restrictions on use, may negatively impact royalties generated under the GSK Agreements.
The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 (“IRA”) establishes a drug price negotiation program under which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (“CMS”) is authorized to negotiate maximum fair prices (“MFPs”) for certain high-expenditure, single-source drugs reimbursed under Medicare Part D and Part B. RELVAR ® /BREO ® ELLIPTA ® has been selected for negotiation under this program, with its negotiated MFP scheduled to take effect beginning January 1, 2027, and ANORO ® ELLIPTA ® has been selected in a subsequent negotiation cycle, with its negotiated MFP expected to take effect in 2028. As a result, these products will be subject to government-negotiated prices in the Medicare channel, which is expected to result in lower net realized prices relative to historical levels and may also influence pricing dynamics in the commercial market through reference pricing, formulary positioning, or other payer actions.
Read moreFuture legislation, and/or regulations and policies adopted by the FDA, the EMA or comparable regulatory authorities, may increase the time and cost required for us or our collaborators to conduct and complete clinical trials of our current and future product candidates.
Could happenThe FDA and the EMA have each established regulations to govern the product development and approval process, as have other foreign regulatory authorities. The policies of the FDA, the EMA and other regulatory authorities may change. In the U.S., Congress has enacted significant healthcare and FDA-related legislation in recent years, including the 21st Century Cures Act and subsequent user fee reauthorization acts, and may continue to consider additional reforms affecting drug development, clinical trial requirements, approval standards, manufacturing oversight and post-approval obligations. The FDA has also issued numerous guidance documents and initiatives addressing, among other topics, the use of real-world evidence, decentralized and hybrid clinical trials, diversity in clinical trial enrollment, data integrity, cybersecurity, manufacturing quality, and the development of antibacterial and antifungal therapies. We cannot predict what if any effect the Cures Act or any existing or future guidance from the FDA or other regulatory authorities will have on the development of our product candidates.
Read moreOur and our investees' reliance on non-profit and government funding for certain of our and our investees' programs adds uncertainty to our and our investees' research, development and commercialization efforts with respect to those programs and may impose requirements that increase the costs of the research, development and commercialization of product candidates developed under those non-profit and government-funded programs.
Could happenOur reliance on non-profit and philanthropic funding subjects us to risks outside of our control, including the availability of funding, changes in the strategic priorities of funding organizations, economic downturns affecting charitable giving, and the discontinuation or reduction of grant programs. Non-profit funders may also impose restrictions on the use, licensing, pricing, or commercialization of technologies developed with their support, which could limit our flexibility in pursuing commercial opportunities or entering into strategic collaborations. Any reduction, delay, or termination of such funding could materially adversely affect our research programs, financial condition, and results of operations.
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The deep dive
Everything above is arithmetic on public filings. The deep dive reads the last ten years of annual reports, the proxy statements, and the earnings calls, then argues the case the way Buffett, Klarman, and Hohn would, and checks every claim against the source.
- What the business is worth, as a range, and the margin of safety at today’s price
- Prices to start buying, buy, and buy hard
- The three things that would make this a mistake
- Every number footnoted to the filing it came from
Your first deep dive is free.
Not advice. Numbers on this page come from SEC filings and are updated each night; prices are updated again after the US market closes. The five-year figures are rounded.