CADLCandel Therapeutics, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -94% · now 30% below its 52-week high.
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 CADL take a bad year?
Candel Therapeutics, Inc. holds $155M more cash than debt, and is burning $14M a quarter, about 3.5 years of cover.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Cash runway
- 3.5 years
Cash runway · burning $14M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 103%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $47M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $202M
- Net cash
- $155M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$71M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$72M
- Debt / equity
- 0.37×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 103%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −94%
- Below its 52-week high
- 30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.