MXLMaxLinear, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Reported earnings show no manipulation flags 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.
Insiders were net sellers (-$50.4M, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026), selling is often routine.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -88% · now 12% 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 MXL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in MXL's price history on file is −88%; it is 12% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Altman Z-score
- 14.01
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 100%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $124M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $65M
- Net debt
- $59M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$45M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$78M
- Debt / equity
- 0.26×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 100%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- 12%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.