GPCGenuine Parts Company
Is it safe?
Solid, nothing alarming. No accounting flags, quality moderate.
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.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -55% · now 13% 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 GPC take a bad year?
Genuine Parts Company carries $4.42B of net debt at 2.98× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q2 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 2.98×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.66× a year ago · the load is going up
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
Debt / equity
- Annualised volatility
- 33%
Annualised volatility · about as steady as the market itself
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $4.98B
- Cash and short-term investments
- $559M
- Net debt
- $4.42B
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $1.48B
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $918M
- Debt / equity
- 1.10×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.36×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 33%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −55%
- Below its 52-week high
- 13%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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