BWMNBowman Consulting Group Ltd.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: comfortable debt (AA), but big price swings.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 4% below its 52-week high.
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 BWMN take a bad year?
Bowman Consulting Group Ltd. carries $57M of net debt at 1.34× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 1.34×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.92× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 0.26×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 58%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $67M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $10M
- Net debt
- $57M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $42M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $18M
- Debt / equity
- 0.26×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.59×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 58%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 3.7%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #18 of 25 by RyuScore