PENGPenguin Solutions, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but 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 (-$320K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -69% · now 3% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Aug 29, 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 PENG take a bad year?
Penguin Solutions, Inc. carries $2.9M of net debt at 0.02× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.02×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.80× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.18
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $17M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $443M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $440M
- Net debt
- $2.9M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $144M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $109M
- Debt / equity
- 1.01×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.07×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 67%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- 2.6%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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