LXRXLexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain, heavy debt (BB), and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
In the flagged range only because sales grew fast; the other indices are not 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.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -98% · now 33% 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 LXRX take a bad year?
Lexicon Pharmaceuticals, Inc. holds $139M 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
- Altman Z-score
- -7.47
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $51M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $191M
- Net cash
- $139M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$54M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$55M
- Debt / equity
- 0.29×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 110%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −99%
- Below its 52-week high
- 33%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.