CRCCalifornia Resources Corporation
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -45% · now 24% 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 CRC take a bad year?
California Resources Corporation carries $1.23B of net debt at 2.66× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.66×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.59× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 1.87
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.38×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.28B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $56M
- Net debt
- $1.23B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $461M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$55M
- Debt / equity
- 0.38×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.78×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 39%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −45%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.