QSQuantumScape Corporation
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$1.5M, 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 -97% · now 75% below its 52-week high.
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 QS take a bad year?
The deepest fall in QS's price history on file is −97%; it is 75% below its high today.
Worst drawdown on file · −75% today
- Cash runway
- 3.1 years
Cash runway · burning $68M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 88%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $859M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$385M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$441M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 88%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
- Below its 52-week high
- 75%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.