CHHChoice Hotels International, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$541K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -50% · now 13% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 31, 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 CHH take a bad year?
Choice Hotels International, Inc. carries $1.96B of net debt at 4.13× 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
- 4.13×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.48× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.25
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 4.28×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.00B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $43M
- Net debt
- $1.96B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $474M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $408M
- Debt / equity
- 14.1×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.22×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.