ZYMEZymeworks Inc.

$25.80+59% 1Y

Is it safe?

Mixed

Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet, but heavy debt (CCC) and big price swings.

1 good, 2 to watch, 3 without data
SurvivalSafe zoneSEC EDGAR · Dec 31, 2025

Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.

Credit gradeCCCderived · Jun 30, 2026

Debt against weak or negative operating profit. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk53% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -92% · now 17% 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.

Volatilitybehind 69% of the market
Max drawdownbottom 10% of the market

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 ZYME take a bad year?

The deepest fall in ZYME's price history on file is −92%; it is 17% below its high today.

9.74

Altman Z-score · distress below 1.8 · safe above 3 · safe zone, the balance sheet is not what threatens this one

Cash runway
1.5 years

Cash runway · burning $30M a quarter at the current rate

Annualised volatility
53%

Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market

Worst drawdown on file
−92%

Worst drawdown on file · −17% today

Details›
Cash and short-term investments
$179M
EBITDA, trailing twelve months
−$152M
Operating profit, trailing twelve months
−$156M
Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
53%
Worst drawdown on file
−92%
Below its 52-week high
17%

Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.