QDELQuidelOrtho Corporation
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -97% · now 65% 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 QDEL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in QDEL's price history on file is −97%; it is 65% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand, with no positive EBITDA to service it
- Cash runway
- 0.6 years
Cash runway · burning $53M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 80%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
Worst drawdown on file · −65% today
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.89B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $123M
- Net debt
- $2.77B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$371M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$825M
- Debt / equity
- 1.63×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 80%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
- Below its 52-week high
- 65%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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