BCOThe Brink's Company
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: heavy debt (BB).
Mixed, watch the balance sheet Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -64% · now 24% 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 BCO take a bad year?
The Brink's Company carries $2.58B of net debt at 2.89× 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
- 2.89×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.67× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.56
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.27×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.24B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $1.66B
- Net debt
- $2.58B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $895M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $576M
- Debt / equity
- 13.7×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.74×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 32%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −64%
- Below its 52-week high
- 24%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Security & Protection Services
Ranks #2 of 10 by RyuScore