ADVAdvantage Solutions Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (B) and big price swings.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -96% · now 35% below its 52-week high.
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 ADV take a bad year?
Advantage Solutions Inc. carries $1.44B of net debt at 16.3× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 16.3×
Net debt / EBITDA · 60.2× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Interest cover
- none
Interest cover · no operating profit to pay the interest bill from
- Annualised volatility
- 89%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.54B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $102M
- Net debt
- $1.44B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $88M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$116M
- Debt / equity
- 3.84×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 17.5×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 89%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −96%
- Below its 52-week high
- 35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.