HLHecla Mining Company
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: clean books and quality strong, but 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).
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.
Insiders were net sellers (-$498K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -82% · now 46% 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 HL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in HL's price history on file is −82%; it is 46% below its high today.
Worst drawdown on file · −46% today
- Interest cover
- 13.1×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
- Annualised volatility
- 66%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $485M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $912M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $737M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 66%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −82%
- Below its 52-week high
- 46%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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