TKNOAlpha Teknova, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Net cash, but unprofitable, speculative. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -96% · now 10% below its 52-week high.
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 TKNO take a bad year?
Alpha Teknova, Inc. holds $4.2M more cash than debt, and is burning $1.8M a quarter, about 2.4 years of cover.
Net cash
- Net debt / EBITDA
- net cash
Net debt / EBITDA · no net borrowings to measure against earnings
- Cash runway
- 2.4 years
Cash runway · burning $1.8M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 81%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $13M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $17M
- Net cash
- $4.2M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- −$10M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$16M
- Debt / equity
- 0.21×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 81%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −96%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.5%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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