No insider purchase over the last 90 days. The latest was filed 28 Jun 2023.
Royalty Pharma plc belongs to the Healthcare & Pharma sector. Filings by its managers are published through SEC (Form 4). In the past year (18 October 2025 to 18 October 2026), 70 filings came from 14 insiders.
The flow runs one way only: 38 sales worth €52.6M, from 5 insiders, and no purchase. No amount is published for 2 filings, which the totals therefore leave out. At €5.2M, the sale published on 19 August 2026 by Hite Christopher is the largest of the period (0.017% of market cap).
Typically, a trade is published a median of 2 days after it takes place. Section 16 rules allow two business days to file each Form 4. A sale on its own says little: insiders also sell to pay tax, fund a purchase or diversify.
For context, the typical company on the same exchange (median of 5,808 companies) published 19 filings over the same period, against 70 filings here. Since 2021, the database holds 5 purchases and 107 sales by insiders of the company. On the fundamentals side, the SEC filing (10-K) for the period ending 31 December 2025 lists revenue at 2.38 bn USD and net income at 770.9 m USD.
For comparison within the same sector, see the insider buying recorded at Cooper Companies, Inc. and Cytosorbents Corp. These figures are compiled from regulatory filings published by SEC (Form 4). They describe what insiders did and are not a recommendation.
Entry is the close on the day after publication, the first price a reader could act on. Prices in the listing currency. Past moves are not a forecast.
Analysts rate Royalty Pharma plc Strong Buy (bullish), based on 8 analysts. Average price target: US$65.38.
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Royalty Pharma plc is a leading buyer and manager of biopharmaceutical royalty streams, listed on the U.S. Nasdaq under ticker RPRX in the United States. For French-, Belgian- and Swiss-based investors, the company is best understood not as a traditional drug developer but as a specialist capital provider to the life sciences industry. It finances biotech and pharma companies in exchange for royalties, synthetic royalties, and other structured economics tied to future product sales. The company is headquartered in New York, placing it at the center of the U.S. healthcare and capital-markets ecosystem.
Founded in the late 1990s by Pablo Legorreta, Royalty Pharma built its franchise around a simple but powerful idea: pharmaceutical innovation can be financed through royalty monetization. Over time, this evolved from a niche strategy into a large-scale institutional platform. The company has expanded from buying royalties on marketed drugs to structuring bespoke funding transactions across development-stage and commercial assets. This evolution has helped Royalty Pharma become one of the most recognized names in the biopharma royalty market.
Its core business lines include the acquisition of existing royalties on approved products, the provision of R&D financing in exchange for future royalty rights, and the management of a diversified portfolio of therapeutic assets. Royalty Pharma’s exposure spans multiple disease areas, including oncology, rare diseases, immunology, respiratory disorders, and neurology. This breadth matters strategically: it reduces single-asset concentration risk while creating optionality across different stages of the drug development and commercialization cycle.
From a competitive standpoint, Royalty Pharma holds a strong position due to its scale, transaction expertise, and long-standing relationships with biopharma companies. It is often viewed as a preferred partner for companies seeking non-dilutive funding. The group’s investment approach requires deep scientific, regulatory, and commercial analysis, because royalty economics depend on the long-term success of individual products. That analytical capability is one of its key differentiators versus generalist capital providers.
Recent developments have reinforced the company’s active capital-allocation strategy. In 2025, Royalty Pharma announced major transactions including a $2 billion funding arrangement with Revolution Medicines, a $275 million royalty funding agreement with Denali Therapeutics, and the acquisition of a royalty interest in Amgen’s Imdelltra. The company also reported strong 2025 results and positive 2026 guidance, underscoring the resilience of its cash-generating model. For investors, RPRX offers a distinctive combination of healthcare exposure, contract-based cash flows, and structured-finance characteristics within the U.S. listed market.
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All recommendations| Fiscal year end | Revenue | Net income | Diluted EPS | Dividend per share | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec 2025 | 2.38 bn USD | 770.9 m USD | 1.78 USD | n.d. | 10-K |
| Dec 2024 | 2.26 bn USD | 859.0 m USD | 1.91 USD | 0.84 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2023 | 2.35 bn USD | 1.13 bn USD | 2.53 USD | 0.80 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2022 | 2.24 bn USD | 42.8 m USD | 0.10 USD | 0.76 USD | 10-K |
| Dec 2021 | 2.29 bn USD | 619.7 m USD | 1.49 USD | 0.68 USD | 10-K |
Amounts in USD, as filed (forms 10-K, 20-F or 40-F). Source: SEC EDGAR.