LGND vs GETY Comparison

Ligand Pharmaceuticals Inc is a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing and acquiring technologies that aid in creating medicine. The company has partnerships and license agreements with various pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. Ligand's business model is based on drug discovery, early-stage drug development, product reformulation, and partnerships. The company's revenue consists of three primary elements: royalties from commercialized products, license and milestone payments, and sale of its trademarked Captisol material.

Getty Images Holdings Inc is engaged in the core mission of bringing the world's creative and editorial visual content solutions to its customers to engage their audiences. the company has developed market enhancements across e-commerce, content subscriptions, user-generated content, diverse and inclusive content, and proprietary research alongside investment in its technology platform, which includes artificial intelligence and machine learning-driven search functionality and image editing and integrated APIs, to become a trusted industry leader in the visual content. Geographically the company operates in the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia-Pacific, out of which a majority of its revenue is generated from the Americas.