BVBrightView Holdings, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: clean books and insiders buying.
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 (+$562K, 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.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -77% · now 28% 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 BV take a bad year?
BrightView Holdings, Inc. carries $868M of net debt at 3.16× 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
- 3.16×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.73× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 0.6 years
Cash runway · burning $6.1M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 38%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ3 2026
- $883M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $14M
- Net debt
- $868M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $275M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $97M
- Debt / equity
- 0.71×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.22×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 38%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −77%
- Below its 52-week high
- 28%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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