ASTEAstec Industries, Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. Safe balance sheet, some accounting flags, quality moderate.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Some accounting flags, worth a closer look 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.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 40% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 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 ASTE take a bad year?
Astec Industries, Inc. carries $315M of net debt at 2.97× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.97×
Net debt / EBITDA · −0.81× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.44
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 1.85×
Interest cover · operating profit barely covers the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $393M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $79M
- Net debt
- $315M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $106M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $53M
- Debt / equity
- 0.57×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.71×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 42%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 40%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Farm & Heavy Construction Machinery
Ranks #11 of 14 by RyuScore