AMHAmerican Homes 4 Rent
Is it safe?
No red flags in what's measurable: insiders buying and steady price behavior.
Insiders were net buyers (+$535K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -38% · now 11% 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.
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 AMH take a bad year?
American Homes 4 Rent carries $5.05B of net debt at 6.43× 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
- 6.43×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Interest cover
- 1.45×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
- Annualised volatility
- 21%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $5.13B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $84M
- Net debt
- $5.05B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $785M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $277M
- Debt / equity
- 0.75×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.54×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 21%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −38%
- Below its 52-week high
- 11%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
REIT, Residential
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