ACIAlbertsons Companies, Inc.
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
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.
Multiple insiders bought with their own money (net +$2.5M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026).
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -55% · now 37% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Feb 28, 2026.
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 ACI take a bad year?
Albertsons Companies, Inc. carries $8.75B of net debt at 3.78× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q4 2025 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.78×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.19× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.38
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 4.87×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ4 2025
- $8.95B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $199M
- Net debt
- $8.75B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $2.32B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $554M
- Debt / equity
- 4.87×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.86×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- Below its 52-week high
- 37%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.