LADLithia Motors, Inc.
Is it safe?
Mixed picture: clean books, but quality weak.
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).
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals 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 (-$147K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -61% · now 25% 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 LAD take a bad year?
The deepest fall in LAD's price history on file is −61%; it is 25% below its high today.
Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · grey zone: neither safe nor distressed on this model
- Cash runway
- 0.2 years
Cash runway · burning $126M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 36%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
Worst drawdown on file · −25% today
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $110M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.85B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.55B
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 36%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −61%
- Below its 52-week high
- 25%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
Ranks #10 of 13 by RyuScore