PACBPacific Biosciences of California, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$2.1M, 90 days to Oct 8, 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 -98% · now 20% 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 PACB take a bad year?
The deepest fall in PACB's price history on file is −98%; it is 20% below its high today.
Worst drawdown on file · −20% today
- Cash runway
- 1.9 years
Cash runway · burning $31M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 96%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
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- Cash and short-term investments
- $237M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$123M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$133M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 96%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −98%
- Below its 52-week high
- 20%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.