FSLYFastly, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: clean books, but heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
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 sellers (-$33.9M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -96% · now 12% 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 FSLY take a bad year?
Fastly, Inc. holds $14M 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
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 102%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $324M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $337M
- Net cash
- $14M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$27M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$82M
- Debt / equity
- 0.33×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 102%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −96%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Application
Ranks #69 of 96 by RyuScore