MITKMitek Systems, Inc.

$17.08+83% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.

1 good, 1 to watch, 4 without data
Credit gradeAAderived · Jun 30, 2026

Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk48% volderived · Oct 8, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -69% · now 15% below its 52-week high.

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 MITK take a bad year?

Mitek Systems, Inc. holds $48M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.

$48M

Net cash

Net debt / EBITDA
net cash

Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings

Interest cover
4.88×

Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare

Annualised volatility
48%

Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market

Details›
Total debtQ3 2026
$52M
Cash and short-term investments
$100M
Net cash
$48M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
$42M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
$35M
Debt / equity
0.21×
Total debt / EBITDA
1.23×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
48%
Worst drawdown on file
−69%
Below its 52-week high
15%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.