EQPTEquipmentShare.com Inc.
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming: clean books, but heavy debt (B) and big price swings.
Mixed, watch the balance sheet 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).
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.
Insiders were net sellers (-$43.7M, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Highly leveraged, watch solvency. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Large price swings, high volatility. Worst drawdown -56% · now 56% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 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.
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 EQPT take a bad year?
EquipmentShare.com Inc. carries $3.19B of net debt at 8.95× 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
- 8.95×
Net debt / EBITDA
- Altman Z-score
- 1.61
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Cash runway
- 0.2 years
Cash runway · burning $521M a quarter at the current rate
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $3.64B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $443M
- Net debt
- $3.19B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $357M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $149M
- Debt / equity
- 3.00×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 10.2×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 80%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −56%
- Below its 52-week high
- 56%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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