MNKDMannKind Corporation
Is it safe?
Serious red flags: a balance sheet under strain, accounting red flags, and quality weak. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Several accounting flags in the manipulation-likely range 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 (-$726K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -88% · now 47% 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 MNKD take a bad year?
MannKind Corporation carries $208M of net debt at 8.11× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 8.11×
Net debt / EBITDA · −1.90× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- -4.00
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $4.5M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $319M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $111M
- Net debt
- $208M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $26M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $9.2M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 12.4×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 60%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- 47%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.