# One manager had more than half its book in the company that lost in Delaware

> A patent ruling on 30 September 2026 cut Liquidia roughly in half in a session. For seven institutions it was more than a twentieth of everything they managed, and for one it was most of it. Source: https://holderbook.com/articles/lqda-concentration/

HolderBook - from Q2 2026 Form 13F filings, period
ending 30 June 2026

- 345: institutions reported it

- 7: held over 5% of their book in it

- 53.9%: the largest single weighting

- 0.01%: what it was to BlackRock

On 30 September 2026 the US District Court for the District of Delaware
ruled that two claims of United Therapeutics' patent covering inhaled
treprostinil were valid and infringed by Liquidia's YUTREPIA. The claims
concern treatment of pulmonary hypertension associated with interstitial lung
disease, an indication that accounts for a substantial share of the drug's
addressable market. Liquidia said it would appeal and would ask the FDA to
remove that indication from the label. The shares fell roughly 48% in the
session. United Therapeutics rose.

What follows is not about the ruling. It is about who was holding the
shares when the last public count was taken, and how much of their money was
in this one name.

## Dollars are the wrong measure

Ranked by dollars, the largest holder of Liquidia was BlackRock, with $860
million. That number means almost nothing. It was 0.01% of what BlackRock
reported that quarter, and a position that size inside a book that size is an
index tracking a company rather than a judgement about one.

The useful measure is weight: the position as a share of everything that
manager reported. On that measure the register looks entirely different.

Manager | Position | 
Share of their book | Shares held | 
What they did that quarter | 

Findell Capital Management | $383m | 
53.91% | 3,502,112 | Held | 

Caligan Partners | $647m | 
30.45% | 8,118,892 | Held | 

Purewater Capital | $30m | 
21.91% | 379,924 | Added | 

Buckley Capital Advisors | $33m | 
20.65% | 410,044 | Trimmed | 

Opaleye Management | $195m | 
17.67% | 2,447,500 | Trimmed | 

T3 Companies | $7m | 
7.47% | 87,800 | Trimmed | 

MPM BioImpact | $111m | 
6.74% | 1,386,174 | Trimmed | 

Every manager reporting more than 5% of its book in
Liquidia at 30 June 2026. Position value includes derivative lines, which
matter here: see below.

Findell Capital reported $383 million of Liquidia against a total book of
roughly $710 million. Of that, $279 million was in shares, which is 39% of
everything they reported.

A 48% fall against the share portion alone takes
something like a fifth off Findell's entire reported book in a single session,
and about fifteen percent off Caligan's.

That arithmetic assumes they still held on 30 September, which the filings
cannot tell us. It is three months of trading later. But it is the scale of
what a ruling like this does to a book arranged like that, and arrangements
like that do not usually change quickly: Findell and Caligan were both marked
as holding rather than adding or trimming through the quarter.

## The rest of Findell's position was puts

The other $104 million was not more stock. It was put options, and the call
side was zero.

A put rises when the shares fall. A manager holding a large share position
in a company facing a binary court ruling, and a put position worth a third as
much against it, has not simply made a bet on the company. The share position
is the view; the puts are what happens if the view is wrong.

How much of the share loss that recovers depends on the strikes and the
expiries, which a 13F does not report. The form gives a value and a share
count and stops. But the direction is unambiguous, and it is the difference
between a fund that was exposed to this ruling and one that had thought about
it.

Manager | Calls | Puts | 

Citadel Advisors | $249m | $62m | 

Group One Trading | $150m | $0m | 

Susquehanna International | $61m | $47m | 

Findell Capital Management | $0m | $104m | 

Jane Street Group | $60m | $6m | 

Caption Management | $50m | $2m | 

The largest derivative positions in Liquidia at 30 June
2026. Citadel, Group One, Susquehanna and Jane Street are market makers, and
an options book is what they do; Findell is not.

Findell is the only name on that list holding puts and nothing else.

## One of them was buying

Purewater Capital added to its position during the quarter, finishing at
21.91% of a $137 million book. Buckley, Opaleye, T3 and MPM BioImpact were all
trimming.

Neither tells you what anyone thought. A fund trims because its investors
redeemed as often as because it changed its mind, and a fund adds because
money came in. The form records the position, not the reason.

## Why these numbers can be checked

Seven managers reported this security independently, and dividing each
one's share value by its share count gives $79.67, $79.69, $78.96, $78.04,
$79.67, $79.73 and $80.08. Seven filings prepared in seven different offices
agree on the price to within a few cents.

That is the whole method here. No market data feed is involved: a 13F
states a value and a share count for every position, and the agreement between
thousands of filers is what produces a price.

## What a 13F cannot tell you

This is the register at 30 June 2026, which is the most recent public count
and is three months before the ruling. Any of these managers may have sold in
July, August or September. The filings covering 30 September are due in the
middle of November, and those will show who left.

It does not report strikes or expiry dates. Findell's puts are visible as
a dollar value and nothing more, so how much protection they actually bought
is not knowable from the filing. A put struck far below the market is a
different instrument from one struck at it.

And a 13F reports long positions only. Anyone who was short Liquidia into
this ruling, or who held puts against it, does not appear on this page at all.
The register shows who could lose, not who could win.

Holdings, values and share counts are from Form 13F
filings as reported, corrected for amendments. Share of book is the position
as a percentage of everything that filer reported for the quarter. Derivative
lines are identified separately. The court ruling and the share price move of
30 September 2026 are from contemporaneous reporting, not from SEC filings.
Not investment advice.
