TALOTalos Energy Inc.
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$38.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -86% · now 8% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 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 TALO take a bad year?
Talos Energy Inc. carries $651M of net debt at 0.91× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 0.91×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.94× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.20
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
- $1.23B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $578M
- Net debt
- $651M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $714M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$251M
- Debt / equity
- 0.60×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.72×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 51%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −86%
- Below its 52-week high
- 8.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.