STAASTAAR Surgical Company
Is it safe?
Mixed picture: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but quality weak and 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).
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals 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.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -91% · now 35% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 2, 2026.
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 STAA take a bad year?
The deepest fall in STAA's price history on file is −91%; it is 35% below its high today.
Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · safe zone, the balance sheet is not what threatens this one
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $1.7M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 65%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
Worst drawdown on file · −35% today
Details›
- Cash and short-term investments
- $181M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $22M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $14M
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 65%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
- Below its 52-week high
- 35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Medical Instruments & Supplies
Ranks #9 of 21 by RyuScore