SNDXSyndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

$16.99+15% 1Y

Is it safe?

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Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.

1 good, 1 flagged, 1 to watch, 3 without data
SurvivalDistress zoneSEC EDGAR · Dec 31, 2025

Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.

Credit gradeAAderived · Jun 30, 2026

Net cash and profitable. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk62% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -79% · now 32% 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.

Volatilitybehind 79% of the market
Max drawdownbehind 72% of the market

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 SNDX take a bad year?

Syndax Pharmaceuticals, Inc. holds $198M more cash than debt, so a bad year is a question about profits, not about lenders.

$198M

Net cash

Net debt / EBITDA
net cash

Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings

Altman Z-score
-2.17

Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8

Interest cover
none

Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from

Details›
Total debtQ2 2026
$350M
Cash and short-term investments
$548M
Net cash
$198M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$194M
Debt / equity
23.2×
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
62%
Worst drawdown on file
−79%
Below its 52-week high
32%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.