HURNHuron Consulting Group Inc.
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 (-$4.4M, 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 -54% · now 10% 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 HURN take a bad year?
Huron Consulting Group Inc. carries $828M of net debt at 3.82× EBITDA: a load its earnings can carry.
Net debt · as at Q1 2026 · between two and four years of EBITDA, normal for a stable business
- Net debt / EBITDA
- 3.82×
Net debt / EBITDA · 2.65× a year ago · the load is going up
- Altman Z-score
- 3.03
Altman Z-score · safe zone, above 3
- Debt / equity
- 2.15×
Debt / equity
Details›
- Total debtQ1 2026
- $855M
- Cash and short-term investments
- $26M
- Net debt
- $828M
- EBITDA, trailing twelve months
- $217M
- Operating profit, trailing twelve months
- $182M
- Debt / equity
- 2.15×
- Total debt / EBITDA
- 3.94×
- Annualised volatilitytwo years of daily moves
- 44%
- Worst drawdown on file
- −54%
- Below its 52-week high
- 10%
Balance sheet from SEC filings; drawdown and volatility from end-of-day closes; Altman Z from the filed statements.