DKSDICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc.
Is it safe?
Accounting red flags: accounting red flags, quality weak, and big price swings. Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Several accounting flags in the manipulation-likely range Beneish M-score, a forensic model that detects earnings-manipulation patterns (receivables outrunning sales, margins slipping, accrual-heavy profit).
Weak, deteriorating fundamentals 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.
Multiple insiders bought with their own money (net +$5.6M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026).
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -71% · now 43% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Jan 31, 2026.
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 DKS take a bad year?
DICK'S Sporting Goods, Inc. carries $993M of net debt at 0.56× 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
- 0.56×
Net debt / EBITDA · 0.13× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 2.99
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 16.4×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.91B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $914M
- Net debt
- $993M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.77B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.17B
- Debt / equity
- 0.33×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 1.08×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 46%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −71%
- Below its 52-week high
- 43%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.