DRVNDriven Brands Holdings Inc.
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.
Moderately leveraged. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -70% · now 31% 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 DRVN take a bad year?
Driven Brands Holdings Inc. carries $1.50B of net debt at 4.22× 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
- 4.22×
Net debt / EBITDA · 9.25× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 0.65
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Interest cover
- 2.75×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $1.69B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $184M
- Net debt
- $1.50B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $356M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $270M
- Debt / equity
- 2.02×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.74×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 45%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −70%
- Below its 52-week high
- 31%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Auto & Truck Dealerships
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