MGYMagnolia Oil & Gas Corporation
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet, insiders buying, and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net buyers (+$325K, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -78% · now 25% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 2025.
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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 MGY take a bad year?
Magnolia Oil & Gas Corporation carries $98M of net debt at 0.10× 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
- 0.10×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.15× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 4.92
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $394M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $296M
- Net debt
- $98M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.02B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $563M
- Debt / equity
- 0.18×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 0.39×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 36%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- 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.