AMTMAmentum Holdings, Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: clean books and quality strong, but big price swings.
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.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 49% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Oct 3, 2025.
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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 AMTM take a bad year?
Amentum Holdings, Inc. carries $3.37B of net debt at 5.33× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 5.33×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.20× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.85
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.81×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $3.83B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $459M
- Net debt
- $3.37B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $632M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $596M
- Debt / equity
- 0.81×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 6.05×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 56%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- 49%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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