CAGConagra Brands
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: clean books and insiders buying, but heavy debt (CCC).
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 buyers (+$511K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 31% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of May 25, 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 CAG take a bad year?
The deepest fall in CAG's price history on file is −63%; it is 31% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Altman Z-score
- 1.48
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 1.14×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 27%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2026
- $7.26B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $218M
- Net debt
- $7.05B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$1.23B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$1.63B
- Debt / equity
- 1.14×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 27%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 31%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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