LBRTLiberty Energy Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: a safe balance sheet, but big price swings.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
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 (-$136K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -90% · now 44% 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 LBRT take a bad year?
Liberty Energy Inc. carries $736M of net debt at 1.41× 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
- 1.41×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.20× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.49
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Cash runway
- 1.8 years
Cash runway · burning $79M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.29B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $555M
- Net debt
- $736M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $524M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $52M
- Debt / equity
- 0.66×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.47×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 62%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −90%
- Below its 52-week high
- 44%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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