COKECoca-Cola Consolidated, Inc.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and clean books.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
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).
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -52% · now 9% 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 COKE take a bad year?
Coca-Cola Consolidated, Inc. carries $2.34B of net debt at 1.95× 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
- 1.95×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Altman Z-score
- 3.64
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Annualised volatility
- 34%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $2.51B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $172M
- Net debt
- $2.34B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.20B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $998M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.10×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 34%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −52%
- Below its 52-week high
- 9.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.