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Gilead Sciences
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What Gilead Sciences is doing, read from its filings, its own words and the news, with every figure dated and sourced. Not investment advice: no ratings, no price targets.
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The latest read
Computed from the data on Oct 22, 2026. Every figure links back to its source in the sections below.
- Revenue over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $30.5 billion, up 5.5% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Free cash flow (operating cash flow minus capital expenditure) over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $12.9 billion, up 38% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Capital expenditure over the four quarters to June 30, 2026: $0.61 billion, up 22% from a year earlier.SEC EDGAR filings (XBRL)
- Share buybacks in the fiscal year to December 31, 2025: $1.92 billion.SEC EDGAR filings (10-K)
- Latest earnings call or results release (August 4, 2026): sentiment 0.70 on a −1 to +1 scale (confident, opportunity-framed), confidence 0.90 of 1.Palanor Discourse
- Guidance in the last 90 days: 3 outlook figures raised, 2 lowered, 0 held.Guidance Ledger (8-K results releases)
- Latest annual report (filed February 24, 2026): 1 risk factor added, 1 removed.Risk Factor Changes (10-K Item 1A)
- Insiders were net sellers in Q3 2026: $15.4 million on the open market.SEC Form 4
- 2,295 institutional managers reported a position at June 30, 2026 (−36 on the quarter before).SEC Form 13F
- H-1B filings certified in Q2 2026: 107 (68 a year earlier).U.S. Department of Labor (OFLC)
Company Posture
How Company Posture is measured →What Gilead Sciences is doing, on three axes, from its filings and its own words, as of 2026-10-22. A description, not a rating: Company Posture never says whether to buy.
Steady · Mixed
Expanding ↔ Retrenching
Steady
- Capital spending87th pct
- Debt raised—
- Buybacks vs capex51st pct
- Hiring filings8th pct
- Deals and private raises49th pct
- Patent publications33rd pct
Confident ↔ Hedging
Mixed
- Call sentiment63rd pct
- Call confidence86th pct
- Guidance changes31st pct
- Risk factors added42nd pct
- Insider open-market trades44th pct
- + Call confidence
- − Guidance changes
- + Call sentiment
Pressure
Components only: Not yet shown as a score: in the back-test it did not add to a naive reader's forecast of impairment, debt acceleration or bankruptcy filings (8-K 2.06, 2.04, 1.03) (not enough events (17 in half 1; needs 20)).
- Fails-to-deliver27th pct
- Stress filings48th pct
Credit
How these are built →Gilead Sciences's borrowing from its SEC filings: the bonds it priced and the debt on its latest balance sheet. A description, not a rating.
Debt on the balance sheet
$26.2B
- Due within a year $2.4B
- Longer term $23.8B
- Default point $14.3B (short + ½ long)
Finance leases included · Jun 30, 2026 filing
Bonds priced, last 12 months
$3.0B
U.S. dollar tranches with a term sheet on EDGAR. Deals sold under Rule 144A file none and are not counted.
| Priced | Amount | Coupon | Matures | Spread | Yield |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 14, 2026 | $500M | 4.900% | 2034 (8y) | +45bp | 4.902% |
| May 14, 2026 | $1B | 4.400% | 2029 (3y) | +38bp | 4.407% |
| May 14, 2026 | $500M | 4.250% | 2028 (2y) | +28bp | 4.272% |
| May 14, 2026 | $1B | 4.600% | 2031 (5y) | +48bp | 4.601% |
| Nov 13, 2024 | $750M | 4.800% | 2029 (5y) | +50bp | 4.803% |
| Nov 13, 2024 | $1B | 5.100% | 2035 (11y) | +70bp | 5.149% |
| Nov 13, 2024 | $1B | 5.500% | 2054 (30y) | +88bp | 5.520% |
| Nov 13, 2024 | $750M | 5.600% | 2064 (40y) | +100bp | 5.649% |
From the pricing term sheets Gilead Sciences filed with the SEC. Spread is to the benchmark Treasury (or Bund, Gilt) at pricing.
Charts
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Cash flow
Capital returned and raised
What the company says
Hiring and ownership
Filings and records
The last two years of notable 8-Ks, offerings, annual reports, federal awards, lobbying reports, patents and other public records, newest first.
- Oct 21, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $2.3 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (GILEAD SCIENCES, INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $6.6 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (TARPLIN, DOWNS & YOUNG, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (FARRAGUT PARTNERS LLP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (MILLER STRATEGIES, LLC)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 20, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (THE MCMANUS GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 19, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (THE DUBERSTEIN GROUP INC.)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Oct 19, 2026LobbyingLobbying report (EMPIRE CONSULTING GROUP)third_quarter 2026 · $0.1 million
- Sep 15, 2026Patent
- Sep 8, 2026Patent
- Sep 1, 2026Patent
- Aug 25, 2026Patent
- Aug 18, 2026Patent
- Jun 30, 2026Private creditLoans held by business development companies (Gilead Sciences, Inc.)$0.9 million at cost
- May 20, 20268-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- May 4, 20268-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- Apr 6, 2026Trademark
- Apr 3, 2026Trademark
- Feb 24, 202610-KAnnual report (10-K)1 risk factors added, 1 removed
- Feb 23, 20268-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Feb 3, 2026Trademark
- Feb 2, 2026Trademark
- Jan 26, 2026Trademark
- Nov 19, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Aug 14, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- May 8, 20258-KShareholder vote resultsItem 5.07
- Mar 12, 20258-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Feb 28, 202510-KAnnual report (10-K)0 risk factors added, 2 removed
- Dec 13, 20248-KDirector or officer changeItem 5.02
- Nov 20, 20248-KMaterial agreement signedItem 1.01
- Feb 23, 202410-KAnnual report (10-K)2 risk factors added, 0 removed
Peers
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| Amgen AMGN | $38.1B | $10.2B | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Regeneron Pharmaceuticals REGN | $15.5B | $3.8B | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Vertex Pharmaceuticals VRTX | $12.6B | $3.8B | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Biogen BIIB | $9.9B | $2.4B | Mar 31, 2026 |
| Incyte INCY | $5.4B | — | Mar 31, 2026 |
| Neurocrine Biosciences NBIX | $3.4B | $0.6B | Jun 30, 2026 |
| United Therapeutics UTHR | $3.1B | $1.1B | Jun 30, 2026 |
| Exelixis EXEL | $2.4B | $1.2B | Jul 3, 2026 |