DNAGinkgo Bioworks Holdings, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$36K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -99% · 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 DNA take a bad year?
The deepest fall in DNA's price history on file is −99%; it is 30% below its high today.
Worst drawdown on file · −30% today
- Cash runway
- 1.7 years
Cash runway · burning $44M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 102%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
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- Cash and short-term investments
- $302M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$256M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$291M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 102%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −99%
- 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.