SMPLThe Simply Good Foods Company
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet, clean books, and comfortable debt (AA).
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.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -79% · now 61% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Aug 30, 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 SMPL take a bad year?
The deepest fall in SMPL's price history on file is −79%; it is 61% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 2.49
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 40%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $397M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $124M
- Net debt
- $273M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$237M
- Debt / equity
- 0.28×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −79%
- Below its 52-week high
- 61%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.