ARDXArdelyx, Inc.
Is it safe?
Mixed picture: clean books, but quality weak and heavy debt (BB).
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.
Insiders were net sellers (-$697K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -97% · now 59% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
Against the whole market›
Percentile against every name Ryufin tracks. Higher is better; the tick marks the middle of the market. Context, not one of the checks above.
Where this answer is blind. Altman sits structurally low for utilities and pipelines; Beneish runs high for fast growers, since sales growth alone lifts it; banks and REITs are excluded.
Can ARDX take a bad year?
Ardelyx, Inc. holds $30M more cash than debt, and is burning $4.5M a quarter, about 15.7 years of cover.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Altman Z-score
- 1.29
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $4.5M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $252M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $282M
- Net cash
- $30M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$32M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$35M
- Debt / equity
- 1.69×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 66%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
- Below its 52-week high
- 59%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.