AVAHAveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc.
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain, heavy debt (BB), and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-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.
Insiders were net sellers (-$558.5M, 90 days to Oct 9, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 15% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 3, 2026.
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 AVAH take a bad year?
Aveanna Healthcare Holdings Inc. carries $1.20B of net debt at 4.21× 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
- 4.21×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.31× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.52
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.20×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.30B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $97M
- Net debt
- $1.20B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $285M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $274M
- Debt / equity
- 4.52×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.55×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 69%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
- Below its 52-week high
- 15%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.