CUZCousins Properties Incorporated
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and typical volatility.
Insiders were net sellers (-$178K, 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 -54% · now 14% below 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 CUZ take a bad year?
Cousins Properties Incorporated carries $3.73B of net debt at 3.30× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.30×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.03× a year ago · the load is going up
- Cash runway
- 0.1 years
Cash runway · burning $24M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.73B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $6.7M
- Net debt
- $3.73B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.13B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $704M
- Debt / equity
- 0.83×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.30×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 25%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- 14%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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