DCIDonaldson Company, Inc.

Industrials

$86.97+8.3% 1Y

$86.97

$79.1252 weeks$109.86

Is it safe?

Mixed

Solid, nothing alarming. No accounting flags, quality moderate.

2 good, 3 neutral, 1 without data

Honest booksLow risk

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).

Quality5 / 9

Mixed fundamental signals Piotroski F-score, nine pass/fail tests of year-over-year financial health across profitability, balance sheet and efficiency. 7 to 9 is strong, 0 to 3 weak.

Insider conviction-$3.2M

Insiders were net sellers (-$3.2M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.

Credit gradeAderived · Jul 31, 2026

Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.

Drawdown risk25% volderived · Oct 9, 2026

Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -43% · now 21% below its 52-week high.

Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jul 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.

Volatilitybetter than 89% of the market

Max drawdownbetter than 88% of the market

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 DCI take a bad year?

Donaldson Company, Inc. carries $1.07B of net debt at 1.62× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.

$1.07B

Net debt · as at Q4 2026 · under two and a half years of EBITDA, comfortable

Net debt / EBITDA: 1.62×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.88× a year ago · the load is going up
Interest cover: 16.7×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Annualised volatility: 25%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself