GLPIGaming and Leisure Properties, Inc.
Is it safe?
No red flags in what's measurable: insiders buying and steady price behavior.
Insiders were net buyers (+$422K, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026). SEC Form 4 filings: officers and directors must report their own trades within two business days.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Relatively steady, low volatility. Worst drawdown -69% · now 21% 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 GLPI take a bad year?
Gaming and Leisure Properties, Inc. carries $7.76B of net debt at 4.74× 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
- 4.74×
Net debt / EBITDA · 4.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Interest cover
- 3.57×
Interest cover · operating profit covers the interest bill, with room to spare
- Annualised volatility
- 18%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $8.08B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $319M
- Net debt
- $7.76B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.64B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $1.37B
- Debt / equity
- 1.62×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 4.93×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 18%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −69%
- Below its 52-week high
- 21%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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