TTITETRA Technologies, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: clean books and insiders buying, but big price swings.
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.
Insiders were net buyers (+$65K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -97% · now 50% 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 TTI take a bad year?
TETRA Technologies, Inc. carries $29M of net debt at 0.34× 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
- 0.34×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.14× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Cash runway
- 5+ years
Cash runway · burning $3.8M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 61%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $183M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $155M
- Net debt
- $29M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $84M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $47M
- Debt / equity
- 0.45×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.18×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 61%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −97%
- Below its 52-week high
- 50%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.