Kardigan, Inc. · NASDAQ Global · priced Jun 18, 2026 · $400M raised · Over $250M
Price since listing
- Hype
- Distribution
- Lock-up window
- Valley
- Accumulation
- Recovery
Volume bars are coloured by lifecycle phase. Markers: lock-up and early release (orange), earnings releases (E), follow-on offerings (F), research signals (rule id and signal; arrow up = buy signal, arrow down = sell or short signal, or sell signal for deals under $50M). Current phase: Distribution.
Performance since the IPO
- KARD
- S&P 500 (SPY)
- Typical IPO over $250m
- Middle 50% of those IPOs
KARD measured from its offer price; S&P 500 from the first trading day. The typical-IPO line is the median of 340 over $250m IPOs from 2014–2025, by trading day.
Company
Kardigan, Inc. operates as a biopharmaceutical company focused on developing medicines for cardiovascular diseases. The company develops and provides a portfolio of medicines that target the underlying pathophysiology of cardiovascular diseases, including primary and secondary cardiomyopathies leading to heart failure. It utilizes a proprietary research and development platform that integrates AI-based tools, real-wo…
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Industry
- Biotechnology
- Country
- United States
- Employees
- 241
- Market cap
- $1.3B
- Website
- www.kardigan.bio
From the prospectus
- Lock-up
- 180 days
- Early release on earnings
- No
- Price-based early release
- No
- Staggered release
- No
- Float sold in IPO
- 28%
- Locked shares per share sold
- 2.6×
- Backed by
- Venture capital
- Lead underwriters
- J.P. Morgan Securities LLC, Jefferies LLC, Leerink Partners LLC, TD Securities (USA) LLC
- Dual-class shares
- No
- Controlled company
- No
- Foreign private issuer
- No
Extracted from the final prospectus on SEC EDGAR.
Returns vs offer, compared with 135 IPOs over $250m
| Horizon | KARD | Peer median | Peers below offer |
|---|---|---|---|
| Day 1 | +37.5% | +12.8% | 24% n=135 |
| Day 20 | +32.1% | +11.6% | 30% n=133 |
| Day 60 | +19.1% | +6.3% | 47% n=129 |
| Day 120 | — | -4.6% | 54% n=106 |
| Day 180 | — | -4.1% | 52% n=89 |
Research signals
No rule has triggered for this IPO.
Rules frozen as v1; signals dated from Oct 29, 2026 are live, earlier ones show what the frozen rules would have flagged. See methodology.
Past figures cover all 4,312 signals the published frozen v1 rules produce on 2014–2025 IPOs, close to close over each signal's holding period. Returns start at the close of the signal session; signals are published after that close, so the first price available to a reader is the next session's. Only 1,192 of 2,368 operating-company IPOs from those years have usable Yahoo Finance price data; most of the rest no longer trade under their IPO ticker (delisted, acquired or renamed), so the figures probably understate declines. These are hypothetical results, not trades: the rules were selected on these same years with the benefit of hindsight, so the figures likely overstate what live signals will do. The live track record is the real test. Trading costs and borrow fees are not included. Past results do not predict future results.
Research signals only, not investment advice. Lock-up terms come from prospectuses; prices from Yahoo Finance and may be delayed or wrong.