DPZDomino's
Is it safe?
Elevated bankruptcy risk: a balance sheet under strain and heavy debt (BB). Everything else is secondary until this clears.
Elevated financial-distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
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).
High fundamental quality 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.
Insiders were net sellers (-$9.3M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -48% · now 29% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 28, 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.
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 DPZ take a bad year?
Domino's carries $4.72B of net debt at 4.76× 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
- 4.76×
Net debt / EBITDA · 5.21× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 2.81
Altman Z-score · grey zone, between 1.8 and 3
- Interest cover
- 5.00×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill several times over
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.88B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $165M
- Net debt
- $4.72B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $992M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $911M
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.92×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −48%
- Below its 52-week high
- 29%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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