CXWCoreCivic, Inc.
Is it safe?
Nothing alarming, nothing pristine: insiders quiet, comfortable debt (A), and big price swings.
Insiders were net sellers (-$16.6M, 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 -78% · now 7% 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 CXW take a bad year?
CoreCivic, Inc. carries $1.24B of net debt at 3.24× 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
- 3.24×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.78× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.30×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 47%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.35B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $109M
- Net debt
- $1.24B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $382M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $245M
- Debt / equity
- 0.94×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.53×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −78%
- Below its 52-week high
- 7.3%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Security & Protection Services
Ranks #6 of 10 by RyuScore