Guardant Health, Inc. — financial distress indicators
Financial-health summary
Guardant Health, Inc.'s reported numbers place it in the 'Watch' financial-health band (distress score 40/100). The main indicators are liabilities exceed assets (negative equity), losses in each of the last 3 years and operations consume cash. In its favour: revenue still growing (+33% yoy).
Stress by dimension
Share price — last 12 months
Indicators behind the score
Each red flag shows the evidence from the company’s own filings and the financial or legal principle behind it. Points add to the 0–100 score.
Total liabilities are 1.12× total assets.
Balance-sheet insolvency test: debts exceeding the fair value of assets is the statutory definition of 'insolvent' in 11 U.S.C. §101(32).
Net income negative in 3 of 3 fiscal years.
Persistent losses erode equity and the capacity to absorb shocks.
Operating cash flow negative in 3 of the last 3 years.
A business that cannot fund itself from operations depends on external capital to survive.
Revenue vs net income
Cash generation
Debt vs cash vs equity
✅ Mitigating factors
- Revenue still growing (+33% YoY).
- Large market capitalisation — strong access to capital markets.
📰 Recent news scan
- Guardant Health Announces Approval in Europe of Guardant360® CDx as Companion Diagnostic for AstraZeneca’s ETCAMAH™ (camizestrant) in Advanced ER-positive Breast CancerYahoo Finance · 2026-10-08
- Guardant Health to Report Third Quarter 2026 Financial Results on November 5, 2026Yahoo Finance · 2026-10-08
- Liquid Biopsy Market to Reach US$15.1 Billion by 2030 at 13.2% CAGR, Driven by Early Cancer Detection and Precision MedicineYahoo Finance · 2026-10-08
- Guardant Health COSMOS Study Published in Cancer Research Communications Validates Utility of Guardant Reveal™ Liquid Biopsy Test for Predicting Recurrence in MelanomaYahoo Finance · 2026-10-05
- FDA Advisors Said It Should Approve the Grail Multicancer Blood Test. The Stock Rises Sharply.Yahoo Finance · 2026-09-24
- AI-Fueled Precision Oncology Firm Guardant Health Is In Focus. Here's Why.Yahoo Finance · 2026-09-21
⚖️ U.S. legal pathway — Title 11, U.S. Code
Which chapter would apply?
- Chapter 11 — reorganisation. Management usually stays in control as debtor-in-possession; the automatic stay (§362) halts collection; a plan must meet the best-interests test (§1129(a)(7)) and the absolute priority rule (§1129(b)) — creditors are paid before shareholders, who are frequently wiped out.
- Chapter 7 — liquidation. A trustee sells assets and distributes proceeds by statutory priority (§§507, 726).
- Subchapter V (“Chapter 5”) is a fast track for small-business debtors under a statutory debt cap, but SEC-reporting companies are excluded (§101(51D)) — so it rarely applies to listed companies.
What typically triggers a filing
- Payment default or covenant breach lenders will not waive; a debt maturity that cannot be refinanced.
- Auditor going-concern doubt (ASC 205-40 / PCAOB AS 2415) — often itself a default trigger in loan agreements.
- Creditors can force a case with an involuntary petition (§303) if debts are not paid as they come due.
- Delisting after sustained sub-$1 prices or equity deficits cuts off equity funding.
Transactions shortly before filing can be clawed back (preferences — 90 days, §547; fraudulent transfers — 2 years, §548).
Frequently asked questions
What do Guardant Health, Inc.'s financial-health indicators show?
As of 2026-10-08, Guardant Health, Inc.'s public financial data places it in the 'Watch' band with a distress score of 40/100, driven by liabilities exceed assets (negative equity), losses in each of the last 3 years and operations consume cash. This is a statistical screen of reported numbers — it does not mean the company is insolvent, has defaulted or will enter insolvency proceedings.
What is Guardant Health, Inc.'s financial distress score?
40/100 ('Watch').
What works in Guardant Health, Inc.'s favour?
Revenue still growing (+33% YoY). Large market capitalisation — strong access to capital markets.
How are shareholders treated if a company enters insolvency?
In a Chapter 11 reorganisation the absolute priority rule pays secured lenders, then unsecured creditors, before shareholders — so existing shares are usually cancelled or heavily diluted. In Chapter 7 the company is liquidated and shareholders rarely recover anything.
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Methodology
Score = capped sum of rule-based red flags across seven dimensions (liquidity, solvency, profitability, cash flow, sales trend, market signal, news). Ohlson O-score (1980) gives an accounting-based 1-year failure probability; Merton distance-to-default (Bharath & Shumway 2008) gives a market-implied probability. Financial institutions use a capital-based rule set. Recalculated every trading day from the latest filings, prices and news.