VNOMViper Energy, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -87% · now 14% 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.
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 VNOM take a bad year?
The deepest fall in VNOM's price history on file is −87%; it is 14% below its high today.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · debt less the cash on hand
- Altman Z-score
- 4.14
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.16×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.68B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $77M
- Net debt
- $1.60B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $251M
- Debt / equity
- 0.16×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −87%
- Below its 52-week high
- 14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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