GHCGraham Holdings Company
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet and comfortable debt (AA).
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Rock-solid balance sheet, low leverage. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -63% · now 3% 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 GHC take a bad year?
Graham Holdings Company carries $744M of net debt at 2.23× 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
- 2.23×
Net debt / EBITDA · 1.79× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.03
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Interest cover
- 4.95×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $900M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $157M
- Net debt
- $744M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $333M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $256M
- Debt / equity
- 0.19×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 2.70×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 28%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −63%
- Below its 52-week high
- 3.4%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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Ranks #9 of 15 by RyuScore