BRBRBellRing Brands, 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 buyers (+$20K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -91% · now 77% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Sep 30, 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 BRBR take a bad year?
BellRing Brands, Inc. carries $1.08B of net debt at 3.29× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q3 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.29×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.51× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 5.18
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Annualised volatility
- 61%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $1.14B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $50M
- Net debt
- $1.08B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $330M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $312M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.44×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 61%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −91%
- Below its 52-week high
- 77%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.