BLBlackLine, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: clean books, but big price swings.
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).
Mixed fundamental signals 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 (-$2.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -83% · now 49% 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 BL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in BL's price history on file is −83%; it is 49% below its high today.
Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · distress zone, the model puts this in the bankruptcy range
- Interest cover
- 3.18×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 45%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −83%
Worst drawdown on file · −49% today
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $528M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $72M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $32M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 45%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −83%
- Below its 52-week high
- 49%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Application
Ranks #49 of 96 by RyuScore