CYHCommunity Health Systems, Inc.
Is it safe?
Caution warranted: heavy debt (BB) and big price swings.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -88% · now 38% 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 CYH take a bad year?
Community Health Systems, Inc. carries $9.43B of net debt at 5.23× 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
- 5.23×
Net debt / EBITDA · 7.85× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Cash runway
- 0.8 years
Cash runway · burning $46M a quarter at the current rate
- Annualised volatility
- 62%
Annualised volatility · three times the market's own swing
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $9.58B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $149M
- Net debt
- $9.43B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.80B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.36B
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 5.32×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 62%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −88%
- Below its 52-week high
- 38%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Medical Care Facilities
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