CIMChimera Investment Corporation
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: comfortable debt (AA) and typical volatility.
Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -73% · now 36% below its 52-week high.
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 CIM take a bad year?
Chimera Investment Corporation holds $191M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Debt / equity
- 0.10×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 28%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $253M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $444M
- Net cash
- $191M
- Debt / equity
- 0.10×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −73%
- Below its 52-week high
- 36%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT, Mortgage
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