CCOClear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain, heavy debt (CCC), and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -93% · now at/near 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 CCO take a bad year?
Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. carries $4.92B of net debt at 10.1× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 10.1×
Net debt / EBITDA · 10.6× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- -1.69
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 0.80×
Interest cover · operating profit does not cover the interest bill
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $5.11B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $192M
- Net debt
- $4.92B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $488M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $317M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 10.5×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −93%
- Below its 52-week high
- 0.00%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #7 of 11 by RyuScore