BANDBandwidth Inc.
Is it safe?
Forensics clean, with a caveat: a safe balance sheet and clean books, but big price swings.
Financially healthy, low distress risk 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).
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 (-$2.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -95% · now 30% 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 BAND take a bad year?
Bandwidth Inc. carries $149M of net debt at 6.49× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 6.49×
Net debt / EBITDA · 11.7× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.17
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Debt / equity
- 0.49×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $199M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $50M
- Net debt
- $149M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $23M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- −$14M
- Debt / equity
- 0.49×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 8.69×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 79%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −95%
- Below its 52-week high
- 30%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Software, Infrastructure
Ranks #64 of 80 by RyuScore