CVICVR Energy, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: clean books and quality strong, 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).
High fundamental quality 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.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -80% · now 3% 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 CVI take a bad year?
CVR Energy, Inc. carries $1.05B of net debt at 1.52× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.52×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Altman Z-score
- 2.57
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 3.40×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.78B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $737M
- Net debt
- $1.05B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $688M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $350M
- Debt / equity
- 3.40×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.59×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 54%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −80%
- Below its 52-week high
- 2.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #2 of 9 by RyuScore