HLMNHillman Solutions Corp.
Is it safe?
Strong, no red flags: a safe balance sheet.
Financially healthy, low distress risk Altman Z-score, a bankruptcy-risk model from five balance-sheet ratios.
Insiders were net sellers (-$143, 90 days to Oct 8, 2026), selling is often routine.
Investment-grade balance sheet. A rule of thumb on leverage, not a credit rating.
Moderate price swings, typical volatility. Worst drawdown -51% · now 35% below its 52-week high.
Unless marked, from SEC EDGAR, as of Dec 27, 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 HLMN take a bad year?
Hillman Solutions Corp. carries $658M of net debt at 2.90× 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
- 2.90×
Net debt / EBITDA · 3.34× a year ago · the load is coming down
- Altman Z-score
- 1.78
Altman Z-score · distress zone, below 1.8
- Debt / equity
- 0.57×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ2 2026
- $693M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $36M
- Net debt
- $658M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $227M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $111M
- Debt / equity
- 0.57×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.06×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 40%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −51%
- Below its 52-week high
- 35%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.
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