CLVTClarivate Plc
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$3.2M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -96% · now 61% 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 CLVT take a bad year?
Clarivate Plc carries $4.04B of net debt at 4.60× EBITDA: a heavy load to carry through a bad year.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · over four years of earnings before interest, tax and depreciation, heavy
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 4.60×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.66× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Debt / equity
- 0.89×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 67%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $4.28B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $242M
- Net debt
- $4.04B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $878M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $123M
- Debt / equity
- 0.89×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.88×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 67%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −96%
- Below its 52-week high
- 61%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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