diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index c6c7eb69..7110a7d5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -251,7 +251,7 @@ Options that take no arguments can be negated by prefixing them with `--no-`, e.
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td><a href="#format">--format &lt;value&gt;</a></td>
-    <td>Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines. (default: [])</td>
+    <td>Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines, exactCurrentVersion. (default: [])</td>
   </tr>
   <tr>
     <td>-g, --global</td>
@@ -544,6 +544,7 @@ Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more
   <tr><td>repo</td><td>Infers and displays links to the package's source code repository. Requires packages to be installed.</td></tr>
   <tr><td>time</td><td>Shows the publish time of each upgrade.</td></tr>
   <tr><td>lines</td><td>Prints name@version on separate lines. Useful for piping to npm install.</td></tr>
+  <tr><td>exactCurrentVersion</td><td>Prints the exact current version number instead of a range.</td></tr>
 </table>
 
 ## groupFunction
diff --git a/src/cli-options.ts b/src/cli-options.ts
index d96f4eac..b7023bee 100755
--- a/src/cli-options.ts
+++ b/src/cli-options.ts
@@ -176,6 +176,7 @@ const extendedHelpFormat: ExtendedHelp = ({ markdown }) => {
       ['repo', `Infers and displays links to the package's source code repository. Requires packages to be installed.`],
       ['time', 'Shows the publish time of each upgrade.'],
       ['lines', 'Prints name@version on separate lines. Useful for piping to npm install.'],
+      ['exactCurrentVersion', 'Prints the exact current version number instead of a range.'],
     ],
   })
 
@@ -664,11 +665,11 @@ const cliOptions: CLIOption[] = [
     long: 'format',
     arg: 'value',
     description:
-      'Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines.',
+      'Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines, exactCurrentVersion.',
     parse: value => (typeof value === 'string' ? value.split(',') : value),
     default: [],
     type: 'string[]',
-    choices: ['group', 'ownerChanged', 'repo', 'time', 'lines'],
+    choices: ['group', 'ownerChanged', 'repo', 'time', 'lines', 'exactCurrentVersion'],
     help: extendedHelpFormat,
   },
   {
diff --git a/src/lib/getPackageJson.ts b/src/lib/getPackageJson.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..1c86c76e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/getPackageJson.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+import fs from 'fs/promises'
+import path from 'path'
+import { PackageFile } from '../types/PackageFile'
+import exists from './exists'
+
+/** Gets the package.json contents of an installed package. */
+async function getPackageJson(
+  packageName: string,
+  {
+    pkgFile,
+  }: {
+    /** Specify the package file location to add to the node_modules search paths. Needed in workspaces/deep mode. */
+    pkgFile?: string
+  } = {},
+): Promise<PackageFile | null> {
+  const requirePaths = require.resolve.paths(packageName) || []
+  const pkgFileNodeModules = pkgFile ? [path.join(path.dirname(pkgFile), 'node_modules')] : []
+  const localNodeModules = [path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules')]
+  const nodeModulePaths = [...pkgFileNodeModules, ...localNodeModules, ...requirePaths]
+
+  for (const basePath of nodeModulePaths) {
+    const packageJsonPath = path.join(basePath, packageName, 'package.json')
+    if (await exists(packageJsonPath)) {
+      try {
+        const packageJson = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(packageJsonPath, 'utf-8'))
+        return packageJson
+      } catch (e) {}
+    }
+  }
+
+  return null
+}
+
+export default getPackageJson
diff --git a/src/lib/getPackageVersion.ts b/src/lib/getPackageVersion.ts
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..89f7ed93
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/lib/getPackageVersion.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+import { PackageFile } from '../types/PackageFile'
+import getPackageJson from './getPackageJson'
+
+/**
+ * @param packageName A package name as listed in package.json's dependencies list
+ * @param packageJson Optional param to specify a object representation of a package.json file instead of loading from node_modules
+ * @returns The package version or null if a version could not be determined
+ */
+async function getPackageVersion(
+  packageName: string,
+  packageJson?: PackageFile,
+  {
+    pkgFile,
+  }: {
+    /** Specify the package file location to add to the node_modules search paths. Needed in workspaces/deep mode. */
+    pkgFile?: string
+  } = {},
+) {
+  if (packageJson) {
+    return packageJson.version
+  }
+
+  const loadedPackageJson = await getPackageJson(packageName, { pkgFile })
+  return loadedPackageJson?.version ?? null
+}
+
+export default getPackageVersion
diff --git a/src/lib/getRepoUrl.ts b/src/lib/getRepoUrl.ts
index f6851985..49e42cd0 100644
--- a/src/lib/getRepoUrl.ts
+++ b/src/lib/getRepoUrl.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,8 @@
-import fs from 'fs/promises'
 import hostedGitInfo from 'hosted-git-info'
-import path from 'path'
 import { URL } from 'url'
 import { PackageFile } from '../types/PackageFile'
 import { PackageFileRepository } from '../types/PackageFileRepository'
-import exists from './exists'
+import getPackageJson from './getPackageJson'
 
 /** Gets the repo url of an installed package. */
 async function getPackageRepo(
@@ -15,23 +13,9 @@ async function getPackageRepo(
     /** Specify the package file location to add to the node_modules search paths. Needed in workspaces/deep mode. */
     pkgFile?: string
   } = {},
-): Promise<string | { url: string } | null> {
-  const requirePaths = require.resolve.paths(packageName) || []
-  const pkgFileNodeModules = pkgFile ? [path.join(path.dirname(pkgFile), 'node_modules')] : []
-  const localNodeModules = [path.join(process.cwd(), 'node_modules')]
-  const nodeModulePaths = [...pkgFileNodeModules, ...localNodeModules, ...requirePaths]
-
-  for (const basePath of nodeModulePaths) {
-    const packageJsonPath = path.join(basePath, packageName, 'package.json')
-    if (await exists(packageJsonPath)) {
-      try {
-        const packageJson = JSON.parse(await fs.readFile(packageJsonPath, 'utf-8'))
-        return packageJson.repository
-      } catch (e) {}
-    }
-  }
-
-  return null
+): Promise<string | PackageFileRepository | null> {
+  const packageJson = await getPackageJson(packageName, { pkgFile })
+  return packageJson?.repository ?? null
 }
 
 /**
diff --git a/src/lib/logging.ts b/src/lib/logging.ts
index 091c3427..fdc69588 100755
--- a/src/lib/logging.ts
+++ b/src/lib/logging.ts
@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ import { VersionResult } from '../types/VersionResult'
 import { VersionSpec } from '../types/VersionSpec'
 import chalk from './chalk'
 import filterObject from './filterObject'
+import getPackageVersion from './getPackageVersion'
 import getRepoUrl from './getRepoUrl'
 import {
   colorizeDiff,
@@ -168,7 +169,10 @@ export async function toDependencyTable({
       Object.keys(toDeps)
         .sort()
         .map(async dep => {
-          const from = fromDeps[dep] || ''
+          const from =
+            (format?.includes('exactCurrentVersion')
+              ? await getPackageVersion(dep, undefined, { pkgFile })
+              : fromDeps[dep]) || ''
           const toRaw = toDeps[dep] || ''
           const to = getVersion(toRaw)
           const ownerChanged = ownersChangedDeps
diff --git a/src/types/PackageFile.ts b/src/types/PackageFile.ts
index 99223c1e..e7ad7d87 100644
--- a/src/types/PackageFile.ts
+++ b/src/types/PackageFile.ts
@@ -22,4 +22,5 @@ export interface PackageFile {
   repository?: string | PackageFileRepository
   scripts?: Index<string>
   workspaces?: string[] | { packages: string[] }
+  version?: string
 }
diff --git a/src/types/RunOptions.json b/src/types/RunOptions.json
index 900237ba..4f716ad8 100644
--- a/src/types/RunOptions.json
+++ b/src/types/RunOptions.json
@@ -68,6 +68,9 @@
           "$ref": "#/definitions/Index<string>",
           "description": "A very generic object."
         },
+        "version": {
+          "type": "string"
+        },
         "workspaces": {
           "anyOf": [
             {
@@ -284,7 +287,7 @@
       "description": "Filter on package version using comma-or-space-delimited list, /regex/, or predicate function. Run \"ncu --help --filterVersion\" for details."
     },
     "format": {
-      "description": "Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines. Run \"ncu --help --format\" for details.",
+      "description": "Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines, exactCurrentVersion. Run \"ncu --help --format\" for details.",
       "items": {
         "type": "string"
       },
diff --git a/src/types/RunOptions.ts b/src/types/RunOptions.ts
index e4565233..f45d6b38 100644
--- a/src/types/RunOptions.ts
+++ b/src/types/RunOptions.ts
@@ -85,7 +85,7 @@ export interface RunOptions {
   /** Filter on package version using comma-or-space-delimited list, /regex/, or predicate function. Run "ncu --help --filterVersion" for details. */
   filterVersion?: string | RegExp | (string | RegExp)[] | FilterFunction
 
-  /** Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines. Run "ncu --help --format" for details. */
+  /** Modify the output formatting or show additional information. Specify one or more comma-delimited values: group, ownerChanged, repo, time, lines, exactCurrentVersion. Run "ncu --help --format" for details. */
   format?: string[]
 
   /** Check global packages instead of in the current project. */