ACMAECOM
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: clean books and quality strong.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet 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).
High fundamental quality 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.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 56% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Sep 30, 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 ACM take a bad year?
AECOM carries $1.70B of net debt at 2.01× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.01×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.61× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.11
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 3.12×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $2.71B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.01B
- Net debt
- $1.70B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $846M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $631M
- Debt / equity
- 1.24×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.21×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 31%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 56%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #1 of 25 by RyuScore