DYDycom Industries, Inc.
Is it safe?
Mostly sound, with a caveat: insiders buying, but big price swings.
Multiple insiders bought with their own money (net +$551K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026).
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -89% · now 50% 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 DY take a bad year?
Dycom Industries, Inc. carries $2.48B of net debt at 2.71× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2027 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.71×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.37×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 47%
Annualised volatility · roughly twice as jumpy as the market
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2027
- $2.82B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $340M
- Net debt
- $2.48B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $913M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $536M
- Debt / equity
- 1.37×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.09×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 47%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −89%
- Below its 52-week high
- 50%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
Engineering & Construction
Ranks #9 of 25 by RyuScore